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Ageing and The Social Sciences: the North American Way

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2008

Alan Walker
Alan Walker
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Department of Sociological Studies, The University of Sheffield
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Ageing & Society , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , June 1987 , pp. 235 - 241
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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NOTES

1 Hendricks, J. and Hendricks, C. D.Ageing in Mass Society. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 3rd edn, 1986.Google Scholar

2 Guillemard, A.-M.La Vieillesse et L'État. Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1980.Google Scholar

3 See, for example, Estes, C. L.The politics of ageing in America. Ageing and Society, 6, 2 (1986), 121–134.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4 See, for example, Guillemard, A.-M., 1980, op. cit.Google Scholar; Guillemard, A.-M., ‘Social policy and ageing in France’, in Phillipson, C. and Walker, A. (eds), Ageing and Social Polity: a Critical Assessment, Gower, London, pp. 263–279Google Scholar; Townsend, P., ‘The structured dependnecy of the elderly: the creation of social policy in the twentieth century’, Ageing and Society, 1, 1 (1981), 5–28.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

5 See, for example, Marshall, V. (ed.), Ageing in Canada: Social Perspectives. Fitzhaury and Whiteside, Toronto, 1980.Google Scholar

6 Townsend, P. ‘Ageism and Social Policy’, in Phillipson, C. and Walker, A. (eds.), Ageing and Social Policy: A Critical Assessment. Gower, London, 1986, pp. 15–44Google Scholar; Walker, A., ‘Towards a political economy of old age’, Ageing and Society, 1, 1 (1981), 73–94.CrossRefGoogle Scholar