Hockey, Jennifer Lorna.

Social identities across the life course / Jenny Hockey and Allison James. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. - ix, 241 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-229) and index.

Structure, Agency and the Life Course -- Problematising Ageing and Identity -- The Structuring of Age -- The Experience of Time's Passage -- Understanding the Western Life Course -- Histories of the Life Course -- The Making of Life-course Histories -- Postmodern Lives? -- Embodying the Life Course -- Revitalising the Life Course -- Gender, Sexuality and the Body in the Life Course -- Family Sociality across the Life Course -- Production and Consumption across the Life Course -- Time, Memory and the Life Course. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. Pt. II. 4. 5. 6. Pt. III. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

"Divided into three parts, the first two parts of the book offer a critical appraisal of traditional and postmodern theoretical approaches to the life course, arguing for a more synthetic approach which takes fuller account of recent academic work on the body. The final part then explores the usefulness of this approach in the substantive areas of sex, gender, family, kinship, work and consumption, thus addressing our experience of changing age-based identities across the life course.". "This body of interdisciplinary material relating to the life course as a whole will provide undergraduates with new theoretical perspectives on this fascinating subject."--BOOK JACKET.

0333912837 (cloth) 0333912845 (paper)

2002026752


Aging--Social aspects.
Aging--Psychological aspects.
Group identity.

HQ1061 / .H556 2003

305.26