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Widowhood in an American City
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 382

Widowhood in an American City

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-09-29
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Widowhood in an American City focuses on the roles and lifestyles of urban American widows fifty years of age or older. These women form a segment of two generations of one society; they present a historical instance of people born and brought up under conditions that are not likely to be duplicated. Not only the U.S., but many other countries are undergoing modifications in the degrees and forms of urbanization, industrialization, and social complexity.Helena Znaniecki Lopata argues that the way women re-engage society following the death of a husband is different due to their location in the modern social system. She notes that the trends in social structure are toward increasingly volunta...

Social Problems and Public Policy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 454

Social Problems and Public Policy

Deviance is by definition a social problem. Since deviant behavior violates the normative expectations of a given group, deviance must be regarded as a problem for that group, since all groups of people want their norms to be enforced. Many modern societies place considerable value on personal liberty, so much so that interference with personal choices to deviate from group norms can be justified only in terms of the potential damage that particular kinds of behavior might do to the legitimate interests of others. Sociological research suggests that the social problem associated with deviance is often the behavior of individuals who violate norms cannot be justified in terms of basic values ...

Occupation: Housewife
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 406

Occupation: Housewife

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1972
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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A Second Chicago School?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 444

A Second Chicago School?

From 1945 to about 1960, the University of Chicago was home to a group of faculty and graduate students whose work has come to define what many call a second "Chicago School" of sociology. Like its predecessor earlier in the century, the postwar department was again the center for qualitative social research—on everything from mapping the nuances of human behavior in small groups to seeking solutions to problems of race, crime, and poverty. Howard Becker, Joseph Gusfield, Herbert Blumer, David Riesman, Erving Goffman, and others created a large, enduring body of work. In this book, leading sociologists critically confront this legacy. The eight original chapters survey the issues that defi...

Women in Midlife
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 403

Women in Midlife

The Study of Women In Midlife GRACE K. BARUCH AND JEANNE BROOKS-GUNN To describe the middle years-that relatively long span when one is neither young nor old-as a neglected period may no longer be accurate, given current scientific and popular interest in adult development and aging. But midlife is still too often seen merely as a kind of staging area on the way to old age, when one gathers one's forces and tries to stock up on assets-health, money, relationships-that will be needed for the rigors of the last phase of life. The middle years have been characterized more as a transition period than as a time of growth, satisfaction, and creativity. As this volume will show, although midlife is...

Progress in Aging
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 92

Progress in Aging

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1979
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Midlife Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 32

Midlife Women

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1979
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Women in Midlife--security and Fulfillment: without special title
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

Women in Midlife--security and Fulfillment: without special title

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1978
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This compendium presents the findings of 29 scholars on public policy issues affecting midlife women.

Women in Midlife, Security and Fulfillment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 348

Women in Midlife, Security and Fulfillment

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1978
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Final Report, the 1981 White House Conference on Aging
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 470

Final Report, the 1981 White House Conference on Aging

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1981
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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