Aging and Society: Current Research and Policy Perspectives (SAGE Focus Editions)

Aging and Society critically reviews significant, contemporary research. The contributors, all experts in the field of gerontology, analyse areas of social and behavioural sciences against the background of demographic changes, which have led to a rise in the aged populations of industrialized societies. As the proportion of elderly members of societies has risen, there has been a corresponding increase in interest in ageing as a subject for research. The book studies the economic roles and status of the elderly population, the differences between bodily and mental changes that occur with age, the place of the community health centre with regard to the welfare of old people, and the political implications that are inevitable with any

Politics & Social Sciences

McCluskey, Neil G.

Borgatta, Edgar

Social Sciences

Sage Publications, Inc.

Social Measurement: Current Issues

Measurement in social science research has only recently begun to command attention. With a shift in attitudes towards causal modelling and the use of parametric statistics, interest in formal measurement models has grown. Bohrnstedt and Borgatta aim to stimulate further theoretical research into sociological measurement, and to provide examples of how these techniques can be applied in research. This timely compilation will benefit those who are interested in quantitative methods, particularly researchers, educators, and advanced students in the social sciences.

Bohrnstedt, George W.

Aging and Retirement: Prospects, Planning, and Policy (SAGE Focus Editions)

′This text is well-organized, readable, and well-documented. It offers many suggestions for research and attempts to provide a concise overview of the rather complex topics of aging and retirement as well as some insight into the future evolution of retirement prospects, planning, and policy. The contents of this text would be especially meaningful for those nurses who deal with older clients in the community setting.′ -- Journal of Gerontological Nursing, Vol 9 No 3, March 1983

Critical Issues in Aging Policy: Linking Research and Values (SAGE Focus Editions)

Giving a comprehensive overview of the discipline, this book is designed as a supplementary text for students of social gerontology and ageing policy. @3Highlighting policy implications, specialists consider issues such as: long term care; ways of measuring well-being; social relationships of the elderly; attitudes to retirement; health and crime.  @ ′the book does a good job in prompting deeper consideration of day-to-day issues about elderly people and points up many unexplored areas worthy of research.......This is a useful book, combining much of general interst for staff working with older people with clear and important messages for its target audience of researchers and policy theorists′ @ GPS 3:2

Montgomery, Rhonda J.V.

The Future of Sociology brings together outstanding sociologists in a variety of areas to present their expectations for the future development of sociological knowledge in their areas of expertise. The editors suggest that sociology, having forfeited primacy in the study of many social questions to other fields in the past few years, needs to become more responsive to changes. They react favourably to the increased concern among sociologists with research methodology, development of better data bases, and the application of knowledge. Specific prognoses for different areas of the field follow, covering the theoretical and methodological core of the discipline and different subfields -- social institutions, phenomena, agents of cha

The Future of Sociology

Cook, Karen S. S.

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Aging and Society: Current Research and Policy Perspectives (SAGE Focus Editions)

Aging and Society: Current Research and Policy Perspectives (SAGE Focus Editions)

Social Measurement: Current Issues

Aging and Retirement: Prospects, Planning, and Policy (SAGE Focus Editions)

Aging and Retirement: Prospects, Planning, and Policy (SAGE Focus Editions)

Critical Issues in Aging Policy: Linking Research and Values (SAGE Focus Editions)

The Future of Sociology