The Social World of Older PeopleThe Social World of Older People Christina Victor , SashaScambler and JohnBond Open University Press£23.99 272pp97803352152180335215211

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-9
Author(s):  
Jonathan Webster
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Social World ◽  
Open University ◽  
The Social

Why clothes matter: the role of dress in the everyday lives of older people

2018 ◽  
pp. 181-196
Author(s):  
Julia Twigg
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Social World ◽  
The Body ◽  
Material Constitution ◽  
Frail Elders ◽  
Consumption Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday

Dress is part of the material constitution of age, providing as it does the vestimentary envelope that presents the body to the social world. Drawing on a series of empirical studies, this chapter explores the role of dress in the embodied lives of older people. It argues that a focus on dress is relevant not just to the younger old and to arguments concerning the new role of consumption culture among this group, but also for the day to day embodied lives of frail elders, in this case those with dementia.

Symbolic Interaction and Retirement Adjustment: An Empirical Assessment

1979 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold Cox ◽  
Albert Bhak
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Symbolic Interaction ◽  
Significant Others ◽  
Social World ◽  
Empirical Assessment ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Primary Groups

Using a variety of indicators of retirement adjustment most studies have focused on two variables as the critical ones: the kind of work the individual was involved in prior to retirement with its concomitant style of life or the individual's pre-retirement attitudes. Focusing on the latter variable and using a symbolic interaction perspective, it was hypothesized that the individual's significant others are crucial to both the development of his pre-retirement attitudes and his post-retirement adjustment. The data upheld both the predicted relationships, and further suggest that the social world of older people is comprised of both primary groups and proximate others. The Lowenthal and Haven concept of confidants as a major factor in the adjustment of older people, though valuable, too narrowly defines their social world. The broader concept of significant others comprised of both confidants and proximate others seems more realistic.

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