A fresh map of life : the emergence of the Third Age /
Laslett, Peter.
A fresh map of life : the emergence of the Third Age / Peter Laslett with a new preface by the author. - 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1991. - xiii, 213 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-209) and index.
I.A new division of the life course -- II.How long can anyone go on living? -- III.The age of Britain as a country -- IV.The age of the present British population -- V.THe rectangular survival curve and the secular shift in ageing -- VI.The emergence of the third age -- VII.Hostile and demeaning descriptions of the elderly -- VIII.The insufficiency of the family group - in the past and in the present -- IX.Retirement and its social history: kin and collectivity in support of the old -- X.The general theory of the third age -- XI.The obloescence of the education system; and the university of the third age -- XI.The obsolescence of the educational system: and the University of the Third Age -- XII.Employment and the frontier between the second age and the third -- XIII.The responsibilities of older British people.
9780674323278 0674323270
90047101
Older people--Social conditions--Great Britain
Self-actualization (Psychology) in old age.
Aged--Social conditions--Great Britain
Self-actualization (Psychology).
Sociology & anthropology
Age groups: the elderly
HQ1064.G7 / L37 1991
305.260941 LAS
A fresh map of life : the emergence of the Third Age / Peter Laslett with a new preface by the author. - 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1991. - xiii, 213 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-209) and index.
I.A new division of the life course -- II.How long can anyone go on living? -- III.The age of Britain as a country -- IV.The age of the present British population -- V.THe rectangular survival curve and the secular shift in ageing -- VI.The emergence of the third age -- VII.Hostile and demeaning descriptions of the elderly -- VIII.The insufficiency of the family group - in the past and in the present -- IX.Retirement and its social history: kin and collectivity in support of the old -- X.The general theory of the third age -- XI.The obloescence of the education system; and the university of the third age -- XI.The obsolescence of the educational system: and the University of the Third Age -- XII.Employment and the frontier between the second age and the third -- XIII.The responsibilities of older British people.
9780674323278 0674323270
90047101
Older people--Social conditions--Great Britain
Self-actualization (Psychology) in old age.
Aged--Social conditions--Great Britain
Self-actualization (Psychology).
Sociology & anthropology
Age groups: the elderly
HQ1064.G7 / L37 1991
305.260941 LAS