ABSTRACT
This volume studies age as a basis for social organization by uniting research from the social science disciplines while implementing both cross-cultural and historical perspectives. The contributors, a distinguished interdisciplinary group of scholars, advance our understanding of age structuring by relating the changing societal level processes and individual aging experiences, and examining retirement practices, age and power in society, and cultural conceptions of age.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|20 pages
Introduction
part 2|84 pages
Age and Power
chapter 2|24 pages
Age and Power
Life-Course Trajectories and Age Structuring of Power Relations in East and West Africa
part 3|66 pages
Ideological Aspects of Age Structuring
part 4|95 pages
Comparative Perspectives on Retirement
chapter 10|21 pages
Stepping Down in Former Times
A Comparative Assessment of “retirement” in Traditional Europe