| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 218 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-212) and index. |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Social inequality and the ageing process; Being old in different societies: varieties of ways to be an elderly person; Changing life-course patterns; Old age and the symbolic order; Social theories of inequality: gender, race, class and age; Numbers and justice: who's afraid of an ageing population?; Social theories of ageing; The reproduction of inequality: power, structured dependence and the life course; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
An analysis of ageing in relation to identity formation, inequality and stratification. The book outlines a theory of social inequality which encompasses those inequalities associated with old age - in addition to class, gender, race and ethnicity. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Older people -- United States.
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Older people. |
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United States. |
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Equality -- United States.
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Equality. |
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Aging -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Aging -- Social aspects. |
| Indexed Term |
Ageing Sociology |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Vincent, John A., 1947- Inequality and old age. London : UCL Press, 1995 1857282620 1857282639 (OCoLC)34156400 |
| ISBN |
0203214757 (electronic book) |
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9780203214756 (electronic book) |
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