The End Game: How Inequality Shapes Our Final Years - Softcover

Abramson, Corey M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674979680 ISBN 13: 9780674979680

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

<p>Winner of the Outstanding Publication Award, Section on Aging and the Life Course, American Sociological Association<br><br>Senior citizens from all walks of life face a gauntlet of physical, psychological, and social hurdles. But do the disadvantages some people accumulate over the course of their lives make their final years especially difficult? Or does the quality of life among poor and affluent seniors converge at some point? <i>The End Game </i>investigates whether persistent socioeconomic, racial, and gender divisions in America create inequalities that structure the lives of the elderly.<br><br>“Avoiding reductionist frameworks and showing the hugely varying lifestyles of Californian seniors, <i>The End Game</i> poses a profound question: how can provision of services for the elderly cater for individual circumstances and not merely treat the aged as one grey block? Abramson eloquently and comprehensively expounds this complex question.”<br>—Michael Warren, <i>LSE Review of Books</i><br><br>“The author’s approach situates inequality experienced by older Americans in a real world context and links culture, social life, biological life, and structural disparities in ways that allow readers to understand the intersectionality of diversity imbued in the lives of older Americans…Abramson opens a window into the reality of old age, the importance of culture and the impact it has on shared/prior experiences, and the inequalities that structure them.”<br>—A. L. Lewis, <i>Choice</i></p>

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Corey M. Abramson is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0674979680
• ISBN 13: 9780674979680
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 244
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