Later Life: The Social Psychology of Aging

By Victor W. Marshall

Book Overview

Later Life deals with leading issues in the social psychology of aging. The central aims of the book are: to introduce an interpretive perspective to studies of aging, based on symbolic interactionism and phenomenology; to offer a critique of prevailing theoretical and structural-functional approaches in social gerontology; and to recognize that aging individuals are immersed in social structural contexts that have their own historical and social imperatives and dynamics.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803925484
• ISBN13: 9780803925489
• Release Date: March 1986
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.