Ageing in Society
`Ageing in Society brings forth exciting new questions, fresh perspectives, and a necessary critical approach to key issues - this is indeed an authoritative introduction.
Biggs, S. (2003) Negotiating aging identity: surface, depth, and masquerade. In: Biggs, S., Lowenstein, A. and Hendricks, J. (eds) The Need for Theory: Social Gerontology for the 21st Century, 145–159. Amityville, NY: Baywood.
This third edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of ageing, exploring the key theories, concepts and methods which behavioural and social sciences contribute to the subject.
This new edition of Ageing in Society has been extensively rewritten and reflects new trends in European gerontology, incorporating recent developments in theory and research from international and interdisciplinary perspectives.