Managing Change in Old Age: The Control of Meaning in an Institutional Setting (Suny Series in Anthropology and Judaic Studies) - Hardcover

Hazan, Haim

 
9780791410639: Managing Change in Old Age: The Control of Meaning in an Institutional Setting (Suny Series in Anthropology and Judaic Studies)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0791410633 ISBN 13: 9780791410639
Verlag: STATE UNIV OF NEW YORK PR, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

This book is an ethnographic study of an old age home in Israel that sheds light on the existential experience of elderly retirees. Hazan looks carefully at the universal concerns of old age, specifically examining the nature of everyday life in the institutional setting. He shows the workings of the micropolitics of control in an old age home and the tension between controlling dwindling resources and sustaining life-long meaning for residents. He also effectively brings out distinctive features of the Israeli situation, its cultural and bureaucratic codes. Hazan's study of the life cycle, based in the anthropology of process, is a senstive portrayal of the dynamics of institutionalized elderly in a complex society.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Haim Hazan is in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel-Aviv University.

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Verlag
STATE UNIV OF NEW YORK PR
Erscheinungsdatum
1992
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0791410633
ISBN 13 
9780791410639
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
182
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