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In: Contemporary sociology, Band 37, Heft 6, S. 575-576
ISSN: 1939-8638
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Reasons for Retirement -- 2. The Departure from Work -- 3. Gains and Losses -- 4. Money -- 5. Social Isolation -- 6. Using the Time of Retirement -- 7. Marriage and Family -- 8. A Good Retirement -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W
In: Ageing and society: the journal of the Centre for Policy on Ageing and the British Society of Gerontology, Band 44, Heft 6, S. 1435-1452
ISSN: 1469-1779
AbstractThe personal futures of older adults are continually in mind, motivating goals, desires and plans. People approach the near and long term with differing agentic traits and dispositions, and they face forward, as well, from differing standpoints according to socio-economic position. This is a study of how persons who are economically privileged diverge in their future thought from persons of modest means, asking how income level qualifies the capacity to imagine, and foresee affecting, the future. We draw upon interviews conducted with 42 older, community-dwelling individuals in the Midwestern United States of America, a sample that was partitioned into two groups, one with below-median incomes versus one with incomes above 200 per cent of median. Interviews disclosed various foci of future thought with common contents among the two groups. Three foci, however, confirmed between-group differences in confidence about handling possible material and support needs, and also in enacting idealised norms of retirement. The underlying theme of these foci – financial security, long-term supports and services, and trips and travel – was the perceived affordability of the future. We conclude that there is indeed a material basis for imagination of and proactivity toward the future. When paradigms about later life set expectations that idealise lifestyle choice, consumption and prudential preparation for the future, these are prospects towards which some can reach more readily than others.
In: Journal of aging studies, Band 34, S. 21-28
ISSN: 1879-193X
In: Ageing and society: the journal of the Centre for Policy on Ageing and the British Society of Gerontology, Band 36, Heft 6, S. 1295-1311
ISSN: 1469-1779
ABSTRACTRetirees' encounter with time has long interested social scientists, especially the negotiation of such an open-ended status. Pursuing theoretical suggestions that daily activities anchor a narrative of self-identity, this project examined the coherence of retirees' representations of their time use. Information is drawn from interviews with 30 retirees in the Midwestern United States of America who were invited to discuss their daily lives and activities. The retirees valued time sovereignty and accounted for their time use by describing schedules of activities in some detail. Daily time was not presented as improvised but rather as structured into routines. Recurring behaviours flowed from situations and structures in which people were implicated, such as body care and living with others. Even in replies to a specific question about the preceding day, people slipped into language about what they typically do. Retirees' ready narratives about routines were also accounts of who they are not. Our findings suggest, first, that daily routines are instrumental for retirees in economising thought and behaviour. Second, the assertion of a routine is an assurance that one's life is ordered and proceeds with purpose, thus solving the task of time. Third, routines can be a means to signal conformity with ideals of active ageing.
In: Journal of aging studies, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 55-68
ISSN: 1879-193X
In: Journal of aging studies, Band 4, Heft 3, S. 211-229
ISSN: 1879-193X
In: Journal of aging studies, Band 25, Heft 3, S. 189-192
ISSN: 1879-193X
In: Sociological inquiry: the quarterly journal of the International Sociology Honor Society, Band 81, Heft 3, S. 377-391
ISSN: 1475-682X
We adapt a metaphor from life course studies to designate the whole of one's possessions, across time, as a convoy of material support. This dynamic collection of things supports daily life and the self, but it can also present difficulty in later life. To alleviate the purported burdens of the material convoy, a discourse has arisen that urges elders and their family members to reduce the volume of possessions. An analysis of 11 such possession management texts shows authors addressing two distinct audiences about elders' need to downsize: family members and elders themselves. Authors who speak to family members do so with an urgent, unsentimental tone that echoes mainstream clutter‐control advice about disorderly, overfull households. In texts for elders, the standard critique about consumption and unruly lives is gentler, more sensitive to the meaning of things, and underplays the emotions of divestment. There is stress on the responsibility to spare the next generation and control one's legacy. These latter texts seem to respect that downsizing in later life symbolizes a narrowing of the life world.
In: Journal of aging studies, Band 20, Heft 3, S. 193-205
ISSN: 1879-193X
In: Journal of women & aging: the multidisciplinary quarterly of psychosocial practice, theory, and research, S. 1-13
ISSN: 1540-7322
This text addresses the rise of consumer culture and the various attempts to explain and account for it. It considers the view that a particular generational framework was formed in the post-war period and has been carried on into the early 21st century with particular consequences for the experience of later life.
Consumption and Generational Change addresses the rise of consumer culture and the various attempts to explain and account for it. It considers the view that a particular generational framework was formed in the post-war period and has been carried on into the early twentieth century with particular consequences for the experience of later life. The rise of individualism, mass consumption, leisure, and lifestyles has been accompanied by the democratization of social forms and, for many, a corrosion of community and social cohesion
In: SAGE Focus Editions
The individual nature of the transition from being a member of the workforce to being retired has been the focus of previous books on retirement. In contrast, this book explores the impact of retirement upon family relationships and functioning. Among the topics examined are: gender and ethnic differences; the roles of children and siblings; and the multiple changes retirement creates in marital interaction. The contributors also discuss various theoretical models, analyses of research and methodological problems associated with studying families with retired members, and present new data o