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Tables of Contents for The Evolution of the Aging Self
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Contributors
vii
Preface
xi
Well-Being and Sense of Self: What We Know and What We Need to Know
1
62
Linda K. George
Identity and Well-Being in Later Adulthood
37
10
Susan Krauss Whitbourne
Deconstructing Self and Well-Being in Later Life
47
16
Jaber F. Gubrium
Self in the Context of the Family
63
60
Roseann Giarrusso
Du Feng
Merril Silverstein
Vern L. Bengtson
Role Loss, Personal Loss, and Self-Esteem: Intergenerational Changes and Continuities
99
14
Leonard I. Pearlin
Yan Yu
Family Selves
113
10
Sarah H. Matthews
Work Status and the Construction of Work-Related Selves
123
60
Gerben J. Westerhof
Freya Dittmann-Kohli
What Goals Motivate Individual Behavior?
159
10
Eileen M. Crimmins
Richard A. Easterlin
Work Status and Identity: Further Consideration of Contextual and Individual Factors
169
14
Erika L. Ringseis
James L. Farr
Caution: Health Care is Hazardous to the Aging Self
183
42
Robert L. Kane
Illness Narratives and the Aging Self
205
8
Dan G. Blazer
Preservation of Self Among Elders: Implications for Change in Health Care
213
12
Sarah Hall Gueldner
Risk, Rationality and Modernity: Social Policy and the Aging Self
225
56
Angela M. O'Rand
Control, Choice and Collective Concerns: Challenges of Individualized Social Policy
251
18
Melissa A. Hardy
Bringing Risk Back In: The Regulation of the Self in the Postmodern State
269
12
Dale Dannefer
The New Aging: Self Construction and Social Values
281
52
Kenneth J. Gergen
Mary M. Gergen
Are We Really Entering a New Era of Aging?
307
12
Neal Krause
The ``New Aging'': Imagining Alternative Futures
319
14
Martha B. Holstein
Author Index
333
10
Subject Index
343