For sophomore/senior-level courses on the Sociology of Aging or Introductory Gerontology.
This comprehensive overview of the social aspects of the aging experience -- from the standpoint of both the individual and the wider society -- focuses on North American and worldwide trends, and the social positions of the elderly both now and in the twenty-first century. It assesses both the causes and direction of social change in the modern world brought on by the aging society.
- ISBN10 0136510922
- ISBN13 9780136510925
- Publish Date 1 January 1998 (first published December 1991)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Pearson
- Edition 2nd edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 288
- Language English