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Summary
Summary
Aging and Everyday Life presents a balanced and realistic view of the aging experience. The research in this book reveals that much, if not most, of the triumphs and trials experienced in later years are not unlike those confronted at other points in life. Just like younger people, the elderly experience both change and stability, shedding old roles and entering new ones. The process takes place in varied spheres of life: the worlds of home and family, work, and friendship.
This thoughtful, engaging text brings together twenty-eight essays by leading researchers in social gerontology to explore the everyday aspects of aging. Readers will come away viewing the elderly as people whose lives are as complex and diverse, and therefore as nuanced as any.
Author Notes
Jaber F. Gubrium is Professor of Sociology at the University of Florida. He is editor of the Journal of Aging Studies and the author or editor of twenty books, including Oldtimers and Alzheimer's (1986), Speaking of Life (1993), and Living and Dying at Murray Mano r (1997).
James A. Holstein is Professor of Sociology at Marquette University. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Court-Ordered Insanity (1993), Reconsidering Social Constructionism (1993), and Social Problems in Everyday Life (1997). He also is co-editor of the research annual Perspectives on Social Problems.
The editors have previously collaborated on What is Family? (1990), The Active Interview (1995), The New Language of Qualitative Method (1997), Constructing the Life Course (2000), and The Self We Live By (2000).
Table of Contents
| List of Contributors | p. viii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Part I Conceptualizing the Aging Experience | p. 13 |
| 1 The Cultural Trap: The Language of Images | p. 15 |
| 2 The Personal Trap: The Language of Self-Presentation | p. 19 |
| 3 Further Thoughts on the Theory of Disengagement | p. 25 |
| 4 A Current Theoretical Issue in Social Gerontology | p. 40 |
| 5 A Continuity Theory of Normal Aging | p. 47 |
| Further Reading to Part I | p. 62 |
| Part II Aging and Identity | p. 63 |
| 6 A Decade of Reminders: Changing Age Consciousness between Fifty and Sixty Years Old | p. 65 |
| 7 Identity Foreclosure: Women's Experiences of Widowhood as Expressed in Autobiographical Accounts | p. 87 |
| 8 The Ageless Self | p. 103 |
| Further Reading to Part II | p. 112 |
| Part III Work and Retirement | p. 113 |
| 9 Retirement as a Social Role | p. 115 |
| 10 The Unbearable Lightness of Retirement: Ritual and Support in a Modern Life Passage | p. 125 |
| 11 "One of Your Better Low-Class Hotels" | p. 138 |
| 12 "Making It" | p. 145 |
| Further Reading to Part III | p. 151 |
| Part IV Interpersonal Relationships | p. 153 |
| 13 Friendship Styles | p. 155 |
| 14 The Significance of Work Friends in Late Life | p. 175 |
| 15 Filial Obligations and Kin Support for Elderly People | p. 193 |
| Further Reading to Part IV | p. 214 |
| Part V Living Arrangements | p. 215 |
| 16 Parental Dependence and Filial Responsibility in the Nineteenth Century: Hial Hawley and Emily Hawley Gillespie, 1884-1885 | p. 217 |
| 17 An Old Age Community | p. 231 |
| 18 Resisting Institutionalization: Constructing Old Age and Negotiating Home | p. 255 |
| Further Reading to Part V | p. 273 |
| Part VI The Aging Body | p. 275 |
| 19 Managing Aging in Young Adulthood: The "Aging" Table Dancer | p. 277 |
| 20 Narratives of the Gendered Body in Popular Autobiography | p. 288 |
| 21 Stigmatizing a "Normal" Condition: Urinary Incontinence in Late Life | p. 306 |
| Further Reading to Part VI | p. 328 |
| Part VII The Aging Mind | p. 329 |
| 22 Geriatric Ideology: The Myth of the Myth of Senility | p. 331 |
| 23 Bringing the Social Back In: A Critique of the Biomedicalization of Dementia | p. 340 |
| 24 The Mask of Dementia: Images of "Demented Residents" in a Nursing Ward | p. 357 |
| Further Reading to Part VII | p. 370 |
| Part VIII Caring and Caregiving | p. 371 |
| 25 The Dependent Elderly, Home Health Care, and Strategies of Household Adaptation | p. 373 |
| 26 The Unencumbered Child: Family Reputations and Responsibilities in the Care of Relatives with Alzheimer's Disease | p. 386 |
| 27 Nursing Homes as Trouble | p. 401 |
| Further Reading to Part VIII | p. 413 |
| Part IX Death and Bereavement | p. 415 |
| 28 A Death in Due Time: Conviction, Order, and Continuity in Ritual Drama | p. 417 |
| 29 Death in Very Old Age: A Personal Journey of Caregiving | p. 440 |
| 30 The Social Context of Grief Among Adult Daughters Who Have Lost a Parent | p. 452 |
| Further Reading to Part IX | p. 466 |
| Index | p. 467 |
