Research shows that having a bad attitude toward aging when we're young is associated with poorer health when we're older. But many eighty year olds would tell people old age is better than they think. In fact, worries tend to peak in midlife, according to the U-Bend studies (so…
What are the most effective methods for doing life course research? The field's founders and leaders answer this question giving readers tips on: the art and method of appropriate research design; the collection of life history data; and the search for meaningful patterns found …
What are the most effective methods for doing life-course research? In this volume, the field's founders and leaders answer this question, giving readers tips on: the art and method of the appropriate research design; the collection of life-history data; and the search for meani…
This book provides a comprehensive guide to doing life course research, including an “inside view” of how to design and carry out influential longitudinal studies. The contributors trace the connections between early and later experience and reveal how researchers and graduate s…
Major economic, technological and demographic forces are combining to influence the ways in which the very structures of people's lives are changed by the work they do. The major defining features of life course, including patterns of entry to and exit from work, are shifting, a…
Social workers work with people at various stages of life, tackling a multitude of personal, social, health, welfare, legal and educational issues. As a result, social work students need to understand human growth and development in the lifespan. This book provides a knowledge b…
This introductory text for social workers provides a knowledge base about human development from conception to death and is packed with real-life case studies and useful pedagogy. Great for revision, there is a student-friendly reference section with glossary and overviews of ke…
Famed anthropologist Ortner tracks down representative classmates from her mostly Jewish Newark, NJ high school class of '58 in order to examine class culture and ethnicity in America today.
"Pioneering anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner is renowned for her work on the Sherpas of Nepal. Now she turns her attention home-ward to examine how social class is lived in the United States and, specifically, within her own peer group. In New Jersey Dreaming, Ortner returns to h…
Identifies patterns of age-related change and compares the developmental rhythms of men and women, deepening understanding of the stresses experienced by couples during the various stages of adult life.
Gail Sheehy's classic bestseller, Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life, is available as an eBook for the first time, with a new introduction. For decades, Gail Sheehy's landmark bestseller Passages has been inspiring readers to see the predictable crises of adult life as o…
