Contexts of Ageing: Class, Cohort and Community »

Chris Gilleard, Director of Psychology at South West London and St. George’s Mental Health Trust

Paul Higgs Senior, Lecturer in Sociology at University College, London

For professionals and college students in sociology, social policy, and health studies, Gilleard (psychology, South West London and St. George's Mental Health Trust) and Higgs (medical sociology, U. College London) address the changes in social and cultural perspectives on aging, and consider what they call the "third age," the period after retirement, in Europe and America. They take into account class, work, generation, community belonging and the history of welfare states, consumer society, and individualization. Distributed by Blackwell Publishing. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR