Research Catalog

Title

A fresh map of life : the emergence of the Third Age / Peter Laslett.

Author

Laslett, Peter

Publication

Houndmillls, Basisngstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan, 1996.

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Details

Description

xiv, 311 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

This study argues that the third age - beyond the breadwinning and child-rearing years - is that of greatest personal fulfilment, the apogee of life. Combining social history, sociology and philosophy, this book provides new thinking on one of the crucial changes in the modern world.

Subject

• Older people > Great Britain > Social conditions
• Self-actualization (Psychology) in old age
• Aged
• Aging
• Aged, 80 and over
• United Kingdom

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. A New Division of the Life Course -- 2. How Long Can Anyone Go on Living? -- 3. The Age of Britain as a Country: Britain Be Your Age! -- First Adjuration -- 4. The Age of the Present British Population, with a Glimpse into its Future: Britain Be Your Age! -- Second Adjuration -- 5. The Rectangular Survival Curve and the Secular Shift in Ageing -- 6. The Emergence of the Third Age -- 7. Hostile and Demeaning Descriptions of the Elderly -- 8. The Insufficiency of the Family Group -- in the Past and in the Present -- 9. Retirement and its Social History: Kin and Collectivity in Support of the Old -- 10. The General Theory of the Third Age -- 11. The Obsolescence of the Educational System; the University of the Third Age -- 12. The Burden of the Elderly and Paying for Your Own Third Age -- 13. The Responsibilities of Older British People.

ISBN

• 0333666763 (hardcover)
• 0333599403 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 60276838
• SCSB-11468791

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library