Becoming and Being Old : Sociological Approaches to Later Life

SAGE Publications Inc

Becoming and Being Old\nby Bill Bytheway\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 2\u20133 working days (dispatched today if ordered before 3pm).\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Bill Bytheway\nTitle: Becoming and Being Old\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Age groups: the elderly\nPublisher: SAGE Publications Ltd\nPublication year: 1990\nISBN-13: 9780803981713\nISBN-10: 0803981716\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nIn this volume contributors examine the assumptions normally made about the elderly and offer differing sociological perspectives on becoming and being old, and on the concept of age itself. Instead of seeing the elderly in terms of needs, they offer alternative analyses in light of class, gender and race. Examining the life-cycle perspective on old age, they show how reti.