Reconstructing old age : new agendas in social theory and practice / Chris Phillipson.
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London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
Sage Publication,
1998.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction: The Crisis of Social Ageing
- Pt. I. Critical Perspectives
- 2. The Development of Critical Gerontology
- 3. Constructing Old Age
- 4. Growing Old in a Postmodern World
- Pt. II. Social Change and Social Divisions
- 5. The Social Construction of Retirement
- 6. Financing Old Age
- 7. The Sociology of Generations: Conflict or Consensus?
- Pt. III. New Agendas
- 8. Old Age: Sociological and Historical Perspectives
- 9. Reconstructing Old Age: Policy Options
- 10. Conclusion: Exclusion and Resistance in the Sociology of Ageing
- Bibliography
- Index.