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Author : Robert C. Atchley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Retirement
ISBN : UCSC:32106001051645
Author : Stanley Parker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000549539
In the early 1980s world recession and widespread unemployment had accentuated an existing trend – more people retiring from work early and living longer after doing so. Some were adequately prepared for a life of well-earned ‘leisure’ in retirement, but too many were not. The policies of employers, unions and governments on retirement needed to be challenged in societies where work opportunities were collapsing but where leisure activities and values were not yet strong enough to take their place. Originally published in 1982, Dr Parker, a sociologist, provides a careful and critical examination of what we knew about retirement and discusses possible alternative answers to the various problems involved at the time. The history of retirement is first considered, followed by a conceptual analysis of types of retirement. There are chapters on preparation for retirement, the capacity of older people to work, and on the varying experiences of retirement. Separate consideration is given to the question of work after retirement age and whether retirement is actually experienced as leisure. The concluding chapter examines various policy alternatives for dealing with the problems raised earlier in the book. Work and Retirement was intended for students of industrial sociology and industrial psychology, for personnel and human resource professionals, for trade unionists and for all those who had an interest in understanding the developments in the field of retirement and the older working population. Now it can be read in its historical context.
Author : Robert Stuart Weiss
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801472520
Reasons for retirement -- The departure from work -- Gains and losses -- Money -- Social isolation -- Using the time of retirement -- Marriage and family -- A good retirement.
Author : Rosalyn Benajmin Darling,Peter J. Stein
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1439914745
For most sociologists, their life’s work does not end with retirement. Many professors and practitioners continue to teach, publish, or explore related activities after leaving academia. They also connect with others in the field to lessen the isolation they sometimes feel outside the ivory tower or an applied work setting. The editors and twenty contributors to the essential anthology Journeys in Sociology use a life-course perspective to address the role of sociology in their lives. The power of their personal experiences—during the Great Depression, World War II, or the student protests and social movements in the 1960s and ‘70s—magnify how and why social change prompted these men and women to study sociology. Moreover, all of the contributors include a discussion of their activities in retirement. From Bob Perrucci, Tuck Green, and Wendell Bell, who write about issues of class, to Debra Kaufman and Elinore Lurie, who explain how gender played a role in their careers, the diverse entries in Journeys in Sociology provide a fascinating look at both the influence of their lives on the discipline and the discipline on these sociologists’ lives. Contributors include: David J. Armor, Wendell Bell, Glen H. Elder, Jr., Henry W. Fischer, Janet Zollinger Giele, Charles S. (Tuck) Green, Peter Mandel Hall, Elizabeth Higginbotham, Debra Renee Kaufman, Corinne Kirchner, Elinore E. Lurie, Gary T. Marx, Robert Perrucci, Fred Pincus, Thomas Scheff, Arthur Shostak, David Simon, Natalie J. Sokoloff, Edward Tiryakian, Joyce E. Williams, and the editors. Published in collaboration with the American Sociological Association Opportunities in Retirement Network.
Author : Diana K. Harris,William Earle Cole
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0395285283
Author : Robert C. Atchley
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Medical
ISBN : MINN:31951001949974G
Author : H.E. Bracey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136248658
This is Volume XII of twenty-one in a series on the Sociology of Gender and the Family. Originally published in 1966, this study on retirement looks at pensioners in Great Britain and the United States.
Author : Jonas Radl
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110399240
The monograph disseminates the very topical issue of retirement and its timing as the key to one of the greatest challenges facing ageing societies. Postponing retirement is now almost universally regarded as indispensable in order to relieve European welfare states from the demography-related financial pressures. This seminal study, derived from a statistical analysis of a large-scale survey data, provides a thorough understanding of the micro- and macro-level determinants of retirement timing in contemporary Western Europe. The book is the first monograph to combine the analysis of the retirement attitudes with the analysis of the retirement behaviour within one research. It tackles the question as to whether early retirement can be explained by “early exit culture”, triangulating life course theory with a social stratification approach. The author used a novel and innovative approach to obtain the results. The methodology includes: tobit models of proscriptive age norms; simulations of the impact of class structure on a country’s average retirement age; competing risks models of different work-exit modalities; duration selection models of retirement timing.
Author : Michelle Pannor Silver
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231547925
In the popular imagination, retirement promises a well-deserved rest—idle days spent traveling, volunteering, pursuing hobbies, or just puttering around the house. But as the nature of work has changed, becoming not just a means of income but a major source of personal identity, many accomplished professionals struggle with discontentment in their retirement. What are we to do—individually and as a culture—when work and life experience make conventional retirement a burden rather than a reprieve? In Retirement and Its Discontents, Michelle Pannor Silver considers how we confront the mismatch between idealized and actual retirement. She follows doctors, CEOs, elite athletes, professors, and homemakers during their transition to retirement as they struggle to recalibrate their sense of purpose and self-worth. The work ethic and passion that helped these retirees succeed can make giving in to retirement more difficult, as they confront newfound leisure time with uncertainty and guilt. Drawing on in-depth interviews that capture a range of perceptions and common concerns about what it means to be retired, Silver emphasizes the significance of creating new retirement strategies that support social connectedness and personal fulfillment while countering ageist stereotypes about productivity and employment. A richly detailed and deeply personal exploration of the challenges faced by accomplished retirees, Retirement and Its Discontents demonstrates the importance of personal identity in forging sustainable social norms around retirement and helps us to rethink some of the new challenges for aging societies.
Author : Panel on New Directions in Social Demography, Social Epidemiology, and the Sociology of Aging,Committee on Population
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309292972
The aging of the population of the United States is occurring at a time of major economic and social changes. These economic changes include consideration of increases in the age of eligibility for Social Security and Medicare and possible changes in benefit levels. Furthermore, changes in the social context in which older individuals and families function may well affect the nature of key social relationships and institutions that define the environment for older persons. Sociology offers a knowledge base, a number of useful analytic approaches and tools, and unique theoretical perspectives that can facilitate understanding of these demographic, economic, and social changes and, to the extent possible, their causes, consequences and implications. The Future of the Sociology of Aging: An Agenda for Action evaluates the recent contributions of social demography, social epidemiology and sociology to the study of aging and identifies promising new research directions in these sub-fields. Included in this study are nine papers prepared by experts in sociology, demography, social genomics, public health, and other fields, that highlight the broad array of tools and perspectives that can provide the basis for further advancing the understanding of aging processes in ways that can inform policy. This report discusses the role of sociology in what is a wide-ranging and diverse field of study; a proposed three-dimensional conceptual model for studying social processes in aging over the life cycle; a review of existing databases, data needs and opportunities, primarily in the area of measurement of interhousehold and intergenerational transmission of resources, biomarkers and biosocial interactions; and a summary of roadblocks and bridges to transdisciplinary research that will affect the future directions of the field of sociology of aging.
Author : Caitrin Lynch
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780801464096
In an era when people live longer and want (or need) to work past the traditional retirement age, the Vita Needle Company of Needham, Massachusetts, provides inspiration and important lessons about the value of older workers. Vita Needle is a family-owned factory that was founded in 1932 and makes needles, stainless steel tubing and pipes, and custom fabricated parts. As part of its unusual business model, the company seeks out older workers; the median age of the employees is seventy-four. In Retirement on the Line, Caitrin Lynch explores what this unusual company's commitment to an elderly workforce means for the employer, the workers, the community, and society more generally. Benefiting from nearly five years of fieldwork at Vita Needle, Lynch offers an intimate portrait of the people who work there, a nuanced explanation of the company's hiring practices, and a cogent analysis of how the workers' experiences can inform our understanding of aging and work in the twenty-first century. As an in-depth study of a singular workplace, rooted in the unique insights of an anthropologist who specializes in the world of work, this book provides a sustained focus on values and meanings-with profound consequences for the broader assumptions our society has about aging and employment.
Author : Robert C. Atchley,Mildred M. Seltzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Gerontology
ISBN : UCAL:B3917401
Author : Robert C. Atchley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015022086873
Author : Diana K. Harris
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Gerontology
ISBN : CORNELL:31924103821447
This text provides a comprehensive overview of the sociology of aging, and remains the only book of its kind to approach aging from a purely sociological perspective. This new edition is completely updated throughout, with new chapters that discuss the now immanent retirement of the first of the baby boomers, the new form housing arrangements known as semi-independent or assisted living, elder abuse in nursing homes (and quality issues in nursing homes generally), and the long-term problems facing Medicare and Social Security.
Author : Giovanni Tamburi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Finance
ISBN : 0952747936