Description
Katz explores how political and social sciences have differentiated the elderly as a special kind of population characterized in negative terms, and he examines the literature of the discipline and shows how gerontology as built itself as a discipline through its journals, associations, funding agencies, and "schools of thought.
About the Author
Stephen Katz is Associate Professor of Sociology at Trent University, Canada. He is the author of Marxism, Africa and Social Class: A Critique of Relevant Theories.
Book Information
ISBN 9780813916620
Author Stephen Katz (Associate Professor of Sociology, Trent University, Canada)
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint University of Virginia Press
Publisher University of Virginia Press