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Societal impact on aging
— historical perspectives | | Author(s) | K Warner Schaie, W Andrew Achenbaum |
| Publisher | Springer Publishing Company, New York, 1996 |
| Pages | 266 pp |
| Source | Springer Publishing Company, 536 Broadway, New York, NY 10012-3955, USA. |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Retirement ; Institutional accommodation ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Employment of older people ; Ministers of religion ; Theory ; Histories ; Conference proceedings. |
| Annotation | This volume comprises the edited proceedings of a conference held at Pennsylvania State University in October 1991, originating from a subcommittee of the US Social Science Research Council's Committee on Life Course Perspectives. The three themes covered - the invention of retirement, institutionalising older people, and late-life creativity and gerontocracies - point to the changes that major social institutions and structures have had on older people in the 19th and 20th centuries. The third theme examines the late life contributions of the developmental psychologist G Stanley Hall, focusing on his views on senescence and their impact on gerontological thought. The papacy is examined as a further example of how gerontocratic institutions emerge and survive: the effects of late entry into a position of authority are examined, and the impact of longevity of incumbents on church and society is scrutinised. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970306203 B |
| Classmark | BG: G3: KV: F: GC: XR: 4D: 6A: 6M |
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