Aspiring In Later Life

Author : Megha Amrith
Publisher : Global Perspectives on Aging
ISBN 13 : 9781978830400
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aspiring in Later Life written by Megha Amrith and published by Global Perspectives on Aging. This book was released on 2023-07-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While aspirations are most often connected to younger people, this volume argues that people do not stop aspiring in older age. Aspiring in Later Life brings together rich ethnographic cases from different regions of the world, offering original insights into how aspirations are pursued over the course of life and in contexts of globalization and mobility.

Author : Megha Amrith
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978830424
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aspiring in Later Life written by Megha Amrith and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-14 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our highly interconnected and globalized world, people often pursue their aspirations in multiple places. Yet in public and scholarly debates, aspirations are often seen as the realm of younger, mobile generations, since they are assumed to hold the greatest potential for shaping the future. This volume flips this perspective on its head by exploring how aspirations are constructed from the vantage point of later life, and shows how they are pursued across time, space, and generations. The aspirations of older people are diverse, and relate not only to aging itself but also to planning the next generation’s future, preparing an "ideal" retirement, searching for intimacy and self-realization, and confronting death and afterlives. Aspiring in Later Life brings together rich ethnographic cases from different regions of the world, offering original insights into how aspirations shift over the course of life and how they are pursued in contexts of translocal mobility. This book is also freely available online as an open-access digital edition.​ Download the open access book here.

Author : Richard Arum
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022619714X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aspiring Adults Adrift written by Richard Arum and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few books have ever made their presence felt on college campuses—and newspaper opinion pages—as quickly and thoroughly as Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa’s 2011 landmark study of undergraduates’ learning, socialization, and study habits, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses. From the moment it was published, one thing was clear: no university could afford to ignore its well-documented and disturbing findings about the failings of undergraduate education. Now Arum and Roksa are back, and their new book follows the same cohort of undergraduates through the rest of their college careers and out into the working world. Built on interviews and detailed surveys of almost a thousand recent college graduates from a diverse range of colleges and universities, Aspiring Adults Adrift reveals a generation facing a difficult transition to adulthood. Recent graduates report trouble finding decent jobs and developing stable romantic relationships, as well as assuming civic and financial responsibility—yet at the same time, they remain surprisingly hopeful and upbeat about their prospects. Analyzing these findings in light of students’ performance on standardized tests of general collegiate skills, selectivity of institutions attended, and choice of major, Arum and Roksa not only map out the current state of a generation too often adrift, but enable us to examine the relationship between college experiences and tentative transitions to adulthood. Sure to be widely discussed, Aspiring Adults Adrift will compel us once again to re-examine the aims, approaches, and achievements of higher education.

Author : Manfred Diehl
Publisher : American Psychological Association (APA)
ISBN 13 : 9781433831652
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Psychology of Later Life written by Manfred Diehl and published by American Psychological Association (APA). This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned experts in adult development and aging, Manfred Diehl and Hans-Werner Wahl synthesize decades of psychological research into a comprehensive volume that considers later life in the context of lifespan development, social and physical environmental factors, and historical-cultural influences. In so doing, they review important research on cognitive functioning, behavioral processes, personality and identity development, and overall well-being in middle to late adulthood. Diehl and Wahl's three-part framework helps readers better understand that the development process is influenced by multiple factors and can take many different trajectories. Through this contextualized perspective, they examine the influence that previous life experiences, beginning in early childhood, can have on the aging process in older adults. This includes social relations, technological advances, societal perspectives on aging, and education. The authors also examine the challenges and opportunities of aging, using a strength-based approach to promote a diverse, nuanced understanding of successful, healthy aging. Chapters also conclude with dialogues from other experts in the field, offering multiple different perspectives on the research.

Author : Sarah Lamb
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813585368
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession written by Sarah Lamb and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, the North American public has pursued an inspirational vision of successful aging—striving through medical technique and individual effort to eradicate the declines, vulnerabilities, and dependencies previously commonly associated with old age. On the face of it, this bold new vision of successful, healthy, and active aging is highly appealing. But it also rests on a deep cultural discomfort with aging and being old. The contributors to Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession explore how the successful aging movement is playing out across five continents. Their chapters investigate a variety of people, including Catholic nuns in the United States; Hindu ashram dwellers; older American women seeking plastic surgery; aging African-American lesbians and gay men in the District of Columbia; Chicago home health care workers and their aging clients; Mexican men foregoing Viagra; dementia and Alzheimer sufferers in the United States and Brazil; and aging policies in Denmark, Poland, India, China, Japan, and Uganda. This book offers a fresh look at a major cultural and public health movement of our time, questioning what has become for many a taken-for-granted goal—aging in a way that almost denies aging itself.

Author : Carolin Landgraf
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Göttingen
ISBN 13 : 3863955064
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aspiring to the Good Life in Seoul written by Carolin Landgraf and published by Universitätsverlag Göttingen. This book was released on 2021 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation explores the values and practices of young, middle-class South Koreans and what it means for them to live a good life. Based on 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork, it attends to the pathways and life trajectories of young adults living, studying and working in Seoul, the country’s economic, political, cultural and educational centre. Due to changing economic conditions, it appears to be increasingly difficult for young people today to reproduce middle-class status. In public discourse, these difficulties are expressed in the terms ‘Spec’ or ‘Give-up Generation’. At the same time, young people are starting to question middle-class lifestyles and values and turn to practices which emphasise different standards. The author illustrates how young adults negotiate middle-class ideals by contextualising the values around four key themes – education, marriage, consumption, and work. In doing so, she explores her interlocutors’ thoughts and reflections about middle-class values through a theoretical and methodological framework centred on ordinary ethics and the everyday use of money. This ethnography sheds light on the complex and heterogenous ways young people in South Korea conceptualise and realise the good in their lives, and it focuses attention on the explicitness of ethics and the relationship between money and values in these young Seoulites’ everyday lives and social relations.

Author : Rose K. Keimig
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978813910
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing Old in a New China written by Rose K. Keimig and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-12 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Filial children, benevolent parents -- Bodies in history, embodied histories -- Place & space, rhythm & routine -- Entanglements of care -- Care work -- Chronic living, delayed death -- Conclusion.

Author : Paul Chong
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1982295783
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aspiring to Inspiring Before Expiring written by Paul Chong and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2022-09-14 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You would remember an old school poem “What is life if full of care, We have no time to stand & stare . . . “ which led on the author’s mind to the notion of sharing & caring in life. Out of this thought, this book is appropriately called “Aspiring to Inspiring before Expiring.” With most books, fiction or non-fiction, you’d read continuously from beginning to end. Here in this case, you can pick & choose to read with ease & pleasure the articles, over 600 of them,on “whatever interests you.” The titles of articles are presented in a non-categorised manner, independent & complete by themselves individually. The book is very readable, easy to comprehend. It can well be your personal bible, a good travelling companion or indeed suitable as a gift for all occasions. Collectively when they first appeared in Paul’s blog https://paulchong.net, they attracted over a million views and Paul has been acknowledged as a very inspiring blogger. Readers will have both the leisure & pleasure of savouring a wide range of subjects in: • love & romance • arts & science • facts & fiction • reminiscences & presence • greed & creed • economics & politics • fantasy & reality • nature & venture • spiritual & secular • life & travel • poems

Author : Alesa Acorn
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1463402767
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diary of the Beloved Book One written by Alesa Acorn and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 13 years old, Catherine Hepburn is described by her friends as the prettiest girl in the county. However, the description favoured by her family is that of a good girl with big ears. In fact, her mother and housekeeper often take the time to help Catherine style her hair in a manner to help hide her big ears. Gifted by her Uncle Nicholas with a diary one Christmas, Catherine begins to record in it the events and circumstances involving the lives of her family and friends. Unknowingly, she records the events of the Hidden, children of noble birth who are hidden in common households until they are of an age to inherit their nobility. At 25 years old, trying to realize her dream as the CEO and Founder of the National Paralegal Foundation is a daunting task for Simone Devereaux. Her days are spent caring for her mother who suffers from a hereditary mental disorder. Her nights are spent in the arms of her fiancé, District Attorney Jacque Parker and her lover, trust attorney Wolf Carlyle. On the death of her grandfather, Simone inherits his private library which contains an extensive collection of books known as the Diary of the Beloved written by Catherine Hepburn, her mother's college roommate. As she reads the diaries to her mother, soon it becomes clear to Simone that Catherine's diaries hold the secrets of the Hidden, children of noble birth who are hidden amongst commoners until they are of an age to inherit their nobility. With the help of her fiancé and her lover, Simone must learn the identities of the hidden in order to save the life of her mother.

Author : Glenda Riley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806160861
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Presidents Who Shaped the American West written by Glenda Riley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generations of Americans have seen the West as beyond federal control and direction. But the national government’s presence in the West dates to before Lewis and Clark, and since 1789 a number of U.S. presidents have had a penetrating and long-lasting impact on the region. In Presidents Who Shaped the American West, noted historians Glenda Riley and Richard W. Etulain present startling analyses of chief executives and their policies, illuminating the long reach of presidential power. The authors begin each chapter by sketching a particular president’s biography and explaining the political context in which he operated while in office. They then consider overarching actions and policies that affected both the nation and the region during the president’s administration, such as Thomas Jefferson’s augmentation of the West via the Louisiana Purchase, and Andrew Jackson’s removal of American Indians from the Southeast to “Indian Country” in the West. Abraham Lincoln’s promotion of the Homestead Act, a transcontinental railroad, and western territories and states free of slavery marked further extensions of presidential power in the region. Theodore Roosevelt’s conservation efforts and Jimmy Carter’s expansion of earlier policies reflected growing public concern with the West’s finite natural resources and fragile natural environment. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, Dwight D. Eisenhower’s highway program, and Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society funneled federal funding into the West. In return for this largesse, some argued, the West paid the price of increased federal hegemony, and Ronald Reagan’s presidency arguably curbed that power. Riley and Etulain also discuss the most recent presidential terms and the region’s growing political power in Congress and the federal bureaucracy. With an accessible approach, Presidents Who Shaped the American West establishes the crucial and formative nature of the relationship between the White House and the West—and will encourage readers to continue examining this relationship.