<p>Aging as a Social Process is the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the topic in Canada. Employing a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, it explains why aging is not just a biological process but also a complex social one. Each chapter in the fifth edition has been rewritten and updated to include 2006 Census data. Aging as a Social Process is a synthesis and interpretation of social science research and census data concerning individual and population aging. Throughout, the emphasis is on identifying, describing, and explaining patterns, processes, and current issues associated with individual population aging, rather than on describing programs or providing prescriptions to assist older persons. This approach enables students and practitioners to acquire basic knowledge about older adults and to develop an understanding of aging processes that people may experience throughout the life course.</p>

Aging As A Social Process: Canadian Perspectives

Politics & Social Sciences

Wister, Andrew

McPherson, Barry D.

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

Aging As a Social Process: An Introduction to Individual and Population Aging

METHUEN

Aging as a Social Process is the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the topic in Canada. Employing a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, it explains why aging is not just a biological process but also a complex social one. Each chapter in the fifth edition has been rewritten and updated to include 2006 Census data. Aging as a Social Process is a synthesis and interpretation of social science research and census data concerning individual and population aging. Throughout, the emphasis is on identifying, describing, and explaining patterns, processes, and current issues associated with individual population aging, rather than on describing programs or providing prescriptions to assist older persons. This approach enables students and practitioners to acquire basic knowledge about older adults and to develop an understanding of aging processes that people may experience throughout the life course.

Aging As a Social Process

Butterworth-Heinemann

<p>The Social Significance of Sport provides a far more comprehensive, penetrating, and insightful analysis of contemporary sport than other texts. Part I, "Sport Reflects Culture and Society", considers how sport reflects the norms, values, and practices of other social institutions. Part II, "Sport Reinforces Social Inequalities", analyses how sport fosters inequity or promotes social mobility for cross-sections of the population. Part III, "Sport Is an Arena of Resistance and Conflict", examines how sport can encourage resistance and conflict, stimulate social change, and create subcultures that pursue the interests of disadvantaged groups. This introductory sociology of sport text is designed to help students appreciate the social significance of sport, understand the social structures, social relations, and social problems of sport, and learn how the theories and methods of the social sciences allow us to better understand sport and to develop policies and programmes to resolve social problems in sport. The supporting Instructor's Manual, free to those adopting The Social Significance of Sport as a course text, contains suggestions for course assignments, an extensive list of audio-visual support materials, and objective, short-answer, and essay questions for testing.</p>

The Social Significance of Sport: An Introduction to the Sociology of Sport

Curtis, James E.

Loy, John W.

Human Kinetics

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