The End Game: How Inequality Shapes Our Final Years
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (765 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674979680 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Winner of the Outstanding Publication Award, Section on Aging and the Life Course, American Sociological AssociationSenior citizens from all walks of life face a gauntlet of physical, psychological, and social hurdles. But do the disadvantages some people accumulate over the course of their lives make their final years especially difficult? Or does the quality of life among poor and affluent seniors converge at some point? The End Game investigates whether persistent socioeconomic, racial, and gender divisions in America create inequalities that structure the lives of the elderly.“Avoiding reductionist frameworks and showing the hugely varying lifestyles of Californian seniors, The End Game poses a profound question: how can provision of services for the elderly cater for individual circumstances and not merely treat the aged as one grey block? Abramson eloquently and comprehensively expounds this complex quest
Deborah F. Lustig said Engrossing social science. The clear and compelling writing, along with the puzzles about human behavior and the metaphor of the game, carried me along throughout the book. Really engrossing social science. An excellent blend of general patterns and specific individuals.The extensive footnotes mean that it can be read on two levels and would be suited to intro classes in sociology as well as more advanced classes.At a few points in the book, light bulbs went off as I suddenly understood elders in my family, so I think it would be of interest to the general reader as well.It's not a book ab. Johanna said Different experiences in aging put in perspective.. As a senior I found this book very informative and engaging. It was recommended by a family member who read it for a class in college. It is beautifully written and filled with great stories about people from various backgrounds. More importantly, it was well researched and made me aware of the inequalities that exist in the aging experience of different people. By putting the different experiences in perspective it explains why we need policies like Social Security and Medicare.. Herbert Gintis said Preachy and Anecdotal. Well-off males live about fourteen years longer than poor males, and well-off females live ten year longer than poor females. I thought this book would help me understand why. I was rudely disappointed. The author uses anecdotes and lots of interesting interviews to document difference between well-off and poor, but never attempts a causal explanation of what affects what. Are people poor because they are unhealthy, or is their lack of income the cause of their relatively fragile physical constitutions? We do not find out in this book.I also object to the sentime
The author’s approach situates inequality experienced by older Americans in a real world context and links culture, social life, biological life, and structural disparities in ways that allow readers to understand the intersectionality of diversity imbued in the lives of older Americans…Abramson opens a window into the reality of old age, the importance of culture and the impact it has on shared/prior experiences, and the inequalities that structure them. Abramson takes readers on a journey through geriatric inequality to show how on the west coast of the U.S. Lewis Choice 2015-11-01) . L. (Mario Luis Small, Harvard University)Abramson provides a remarkable ethnographic look at four urban neighborhoods inhabited by older A
Abramson is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona. . Corey M