Research on Adulthood and Aging: The Human Science Approach

Book Overview

By borrowing from a wide range of disciplines such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, psychiatry, and the humanities, this book gives a more "human," personal voice to the many experiences of aging. The result is a new sort of social science research, one which often reads more like literature than social science. Indeed, the author uses a wide variety of techniques borrowed from the humanities, from hermeneutics to oral histories, in addition to the more traditional social science methods.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791400697
• ISBN13: 9780791400692
• Release Date: July 1989
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher