00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000002704 20200508201956 200508||||||||| | ||| |||| ||eng|| 9780120883882 010-0520002704 eng 305.26 305.26/GEO/H Edited by Robert H. Binstock and Linda K. Geoge Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences 6 th ed California John Wiley & Sons 2006 xxiv, 514 p. : illus.; 25 cm Indeks : p. 479 - 514 Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, 6e provides a comprehensive sumamry and evoluation of recent research on the social of aging. The 25 chapters are divided into four sections discussing Aging and Time, Aging and Social Stucture, Social Factors and Social Instituions, and Aging and Society. Within this context, aging is examined from the perspectives of many disciplines and professions inclunding anthropology, bioethics, demography, economics, epidemiology, law, political science, psychology, and sociology. The 6th edtion of the Handbook is virtually 100% new material. Seventeen chapters are on subjects not carried in the previos edition. Seven topics were carried over from the previous edition but written by new authors with fresh perseptives and brought up to date. Some of teh written by new topics include social relationship in late lifa, tecnologhical change and aging, religion and the law. There is also a greater emphasis on international perspectives, particulary in chapters on aging and politics, diversity and aging ammigration. Gerontology Aging-Social aspect 09579/MKRI-P/XI-2008 09580/ MKRI- P/XI 2008