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Gerontology, Family, and Life Course

Gerontology, Family, and Life Course

 
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  • Harvest of Hope: Family Farming/Farming Families by Lorraine Garkovich, Janet L. Bokemeier, and Barbara Foote

    Harvest of Hope: Family Farming/Farming Families

    The image of the family farm as storehouse of the traditional values that built this nation—self-reliance, resourcefulness, civic pride, family strength, concern for neighbors and community, honesty, and friendliness—persists, as many recent surveys show. But the reality of this rich tradition is rapidly changing, eroding the security once represented by these nostalgic images of rural America.

    Although the United States is still by far the world's leading overall producer of agricultural products, the number of American families making their livelihood through farming is much diminished, and if our demographers are correct, the number of family-operated farms is destined to fall ...Read More

  • The Complete Retirement Handbook: For Anyone Who Will Ever Retire by Forest J. Bowman

    The Complete Retirement Handbook: For Anyone Who Will Ever Retire

    If you are 20 or 30 years of age and just starting out in a career, this book can serve you as an excellent road map for your future retirement. If you are 40 to 50 years of age, this book can become the life-saver that can make your shortly-to-come retirement more full. If you are over 50 years of age, you need to rush out and get this book to keep from suffocating during your impending retirement. In other words, this book is an excellent volume for anyone who is in the American work force.

    The author begins the ...Read More

  • Gettin' Some Age on Me: Social Organization of Older People in a Rural American Community by John van Willigen

    Gettin' Some Age on Me: Social Organization of Older People in a Rural American Community

    The social life of older rural Americans is made up of relationships formed through kinship, their neighborhoods, and the organizations to which they belong. These social institutions are shaped by the ways people use them, and therefore change through time. In this precedent-setting study, John van Willigen uses the concept of social network to investigate life-course changes in the relationships of older people within the context of community history.

    Gettin' Some Age on Me grew out of a study of more than 130 older people in a rural Kentucky county. They were interviewed concerning their relationships with others, and data ...Read More

  • The Politics of Being Mortal by Alfred G. Killilea

    The Politics of Being Mortal

    While much has been written in recent years on death and dying, there has been little treatment of how people cope with death in the absence of religious belief, and virtually no examination of the potential political repercussions of a wider acceptance of mortality in American society. Alfred Killilea’s strikingly original book revolves around a central irony: though the subject of death has been largely shunned in American culture lest it rob life of meaning and contentment, confronting death may be crucial to enable us as individuals and as a society to affirm life, even to survive, in this nuclear ...Read More

  • Older Rural Americans: A Sociological Perspective by E. Grant Youmans

    Older Rural Americans: A Sociological Perspective

    Most social studies of older people in the United States have focused upon problems and conditions encountered in urban centers. In Older Rural Americans sixteen social scientists representing various regions examine in depth the circumstances of older people in rural America.

    The authors first consider older people in the contexts of work, the family, and the community, discussing their social outlook, their place in these contexts, and the profound changes they face as they move away from an active part in these areas of life. Later chapters analyze the distribution of the rural aged population and their economic, housing, and ...Read More

 
 
 

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