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Blom, Ida. "The History of Widowhood: A Bibliographic Overview." Journal of Family History 16, no. 2 (April 1991): 191–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/036319909101600206.

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Johansen, Hanne Marie. "Widowhood in Scandinavia - an introduction." Scandinavian Journal of History 29, no. 3-4 (December 2004): 171–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03468750410008798.

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Yang, Fang, and Danan Gu. "Widowhood, widowhood duration, and loneliness among older adults in China." Social Science & Medicine 283 (August 2021): 114179. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114179.

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Dribe, Martin, Christer Lundh, and Paul Nystedt. "Widowhood Strategies in Preindustrial Society." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 38, no. 2 (October 2007): 207–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jinh.2007.38.2.207.

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In preindustrial society, the loss of a spouse usually impelled the surviving party to adapt quickly by choosing between certain strategies: to remain the head of the household, to remarry, to enter a household headed by a child or the spouse of child, to dissolve the household and enter into an unrelated person's household, or to migrate out of the parish. The use of competing-risk hazard models and longitudinal microlevel data shows that demographic, socioeconomic, and gender-related factors interacted in determining the choice of strategy in a rural area of southern Sweden during the nineteenth century.
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Bennett, Kate Mary, and Laura K. Soulsby. "Wellbeing in Bereavement and Widowhood." Illness, Crisis & Loss 20, no. 4 (October 2012): 321–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/il.20.4.b.

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This article will examine how beveavement and widowhood affect wellbeing drawing on psychological, gerontological, and sociological research. The article will begin with an outline of what is meant by bereavement and widowhood. It will then present an overview of the effects that bereavement and widowhood has on wellbeing. In the next section, a brief history of approaches to bereavement will be presented. Next, more recent approaches will be discussed including the Dual Process Model of Bereavement (Stroebe & Schut, 1999), and a discussion of the debate concerning continuing and relinquishing bonds. The focus will then turn to factors which influence wellbeing with a focus both on pre- and post-bereavement experiences, and on such factors as age and gender. Finally, there will be a discussion of factors which may enhance wellbeing, such as resilience, identity reconstruction, and coping strategies.
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Heaton, Tim B., and Caroline Hoppe. "Widowed and Married: Comparative Change in Living Arrangements, 1900 and 1980." Social Science History 11, no. 3 (1987): 261–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0145553200015844.

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It has become clear that the onset of widowhood, perhaps more than any other event of the aging process, involves a dramatic change in the family status of older persons. Because many elderly are neither emotionally nor economically prepared for widowhood, the death of a spouse often requires a realignment of social and familial relationships, economic conditions, and living arrangements. The ability to cope with hardships associated with loss of spouse certainly may be enhanced or limited by living arrangements. Not only does the type of household indicate the individual’s sociodemographic status, it also gives us insight into the individual’s family life in old age. Widowhood may initiate the final stage of the family cycle when the widowed person, as the only household survivor, must either change residence or live alone. In either case, a reordering of kinship links or provision for formal assistance may be necessary.
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Atwal, Jyoti. "Widowhood in History : Reformers, Widow Homes and the Nation." Current Research Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 5, no. 1 (July 19, 2019): 09–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/crjssh.5.1.03.

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To begin with, the section on the mainstream reformers offers a brief overview of the nature of reform carried out in the late 19th century Bengal and Maharashtra. The second section, on widowhood and nationalism, looks into how the Hindu women in general and the widow in particular were recast by the urgency accorded to the redefinition of the subjected-self as against a glorious Hindu past. This article does not stop with their recasting, it goes beyond into the realm of widows self-perception and self-making.
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Wiesner-Hanks, Merry, Sandra Cavallo, and Lyndan Warner. "Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe." Sixteenth Century Journal 32, no. 1 (2001): 209. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2671440.

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Wu, Zheng. "Remarriage after Widowhood: A Marital History Study of Older Canadians." Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement 14, no. 4 (1995): 719–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0714980800016421.

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RésuméÀ l'aide des données historiques tirées de l'étude de Statistique Canada sur la famille et les amis de 1990, cette recherche étudie divers facteurs influençant la probabilité de remariage chez les homines et les femmes dont le premier mariage s'est terminé par un veuvage. Les résultats suggèrent qu'il existe d'importantes différences entre les deux sexes lorsqu'il s'agit de se remarier. Le taux de remariage chez les veufs est beaucoup plus élevé que chez les veuves. De plus, le taux de remariage varie selon les indicateurs du cycle de vie et la situation socioéconomique. L'auteur discute des conséquences de ces résultats.
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Chabot, Isabelle. "Widowhood and poverty in late medieval Florence." Continuity and Change 3, no. 2 (August 1988): 291–311. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0268416000000989.

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Dans la conception de la pauvreté au Moyen-Age et au début de l'èrè moderne, ainsi que les pratiques de secours public et de charité privée, les veuves étaient en général considérées comme pauvres à cause essentiellement de leur infériorité légale. L'objectif de cet article est de suggérer certains des facteurs socioéconomiques qui, dans le contexte de la société florentine de la fin du Moyen-Age faisaient des femmes des victimes potentielles ou réelles du processus d'appauvrissement après le décès de leur mari. En interprétant le terme ‘pauvreté’ dans un sens large comme étant une variété de risques encourus par les femmes de toutes les catégories sociales, il est possible de se concentrer sur deux points: d'une part, le déclin de leur statut social lié aux insuffisances du système de la dot; d'autre part, une détérioration du niveau de vie des femmes dans les classes inférieures.
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Hart, Susan. "Widowhood and remarriage in colonial Australia." University of Western Australia. School of Humanities, 2009. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2010.0023.

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Widowhood and remarriage affected a majority of people in colonial Australia, yet historians have given them scant attention. Today, widowhood primarily concerns the elderly, but in the mid-nineteenth century a considerable proportion of deaths were amongst young adults. Thus many widows and widowers had children to care for, who were also affected by the loss of a parent and the possible remarriage of their surviving parent. Extended families might be called on for support, while communities, at the local and government level, were confronted with the need to provide welfare for the widowed and orphaned, including the older widowed. This thesis considers how widowhood impacted on men and women at all levels of society in the nineteenth-century Australian colonies, especially Western Australia and Victoria, taking into account the effects of age, class and numbers of children of the widowed. When men were the chief family earners and women were dependent child bearers the effects of widowhood could be disastrous, and widows had to employ a range of strategies to support themselves and their families. Men too were affected by widowhood, for the loss of a wife’s housekeeping skills could cause serious financial consequences. One response to widowhood was remarriage, and the thesis discusses the advantages and disadvantages of remarriage for men and women. Historians have regarded remarriage as the best option for the widowed, especially for women. Research into remarriage, especially in Britain and Europe, has focussed on demography. Assuming that all widowed wished to remarry, demographers have compared remarriage rates for men and women, within the context of the relative numbers of marriageable men and women in a given community.
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Brun, Josette. "Le veuvage en Nouvelle-France, genre, dynamique familiale et stratégies de survie dans deux villes coloniales du XVIIIe siècle, Québec et Louisbourg." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ57459.pdf.

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Emanoil, Valerie A. "'In My Pure Widowhood': Widows and Property in Late Medieval London." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1211560325.

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Bourbeau-Allard, Eve. "A Widow's Purview: A Microhistory of Widowhood and Gender Relations in the Late Eighteenth-Century Virginia Backcountry." W&M ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626796.

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Tremper, Kristin. ""When God Takes Away": Gendered Death Customs in Eighteenth-Century Virginia." VCU Scholars Compass, 2010. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/74.

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Rituals surrounding death were social in addition to being religious. Virginians conveyed the status of the deceased through funerals, burials, gravestones, commemoration, and mourning. But these customs greatly differed according to gender, both in what they consisted of and who was responsible for carrying them out. This thesis examines wills, diaries, correspondence, grave markers, prints, and newspapers of eighteenth-century Virginians, which demonstrate the differences in the death customs of men and women. Because of men’s involvement in public activities like business and politics, they gave greater forethought into how acts of remembrance would reflect their positions. Women’s duties were centered on the home and family. This resulted in less elaborate death customs as well as greater responsibility for appropriately attending to the remembrance of others. Despite the overwhelmingly private nature of women’s funerals and burials, gravestones, death notices, and the responsibilities of widowhood briefly brought women into the public realm.
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Delmedico, Sara. "From the Restoration to the Pisanelli code (1815-1865) : a cultural and historical assessment of the legal status of women in the north of the Italian peninsula." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/284721.

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In the context of a changing political landscape, where shifts in state boundaries and socio-economic structures deeply affected the Italian peninsula and its people, this thesis analyses women and the law in action in the years from the Restoration up to the enactment of the Pisanelli code (1815-1865). It does so with particular reference to the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia. These years also saw a number of changes in the legal system with various new laws instituted. The quick succession of these legal acts testified to the new ideas, behaviours and perceptions that began to take form in the period in question, but which the patriarchal and hierarchical nineteenth century society - so reliant on strict class stratification to perpetuate its status quo - resisted fully accepting. Within this context, women began to redefine their sense of self and to think of themselves as having an identity which went beyond their traditional domestic roles of mother, wife or daughter. This work aims to describe this process by focusing on women's attitudes towards the law and their interactions with the legal system. The thesis is structured in the following way: the first part focuses on the Ottocento context, the ideals promulgated about women in public discourse and the legal framework of the Italian peninsula. In the second part attention turns to relevant case studies from the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, brought to light by first-hand examination of archival documents and court proceedings preserved in legal journals of the time. Each part is subdivided into three chapters. After an examination of the social, political and economic context of the nineteenth-century Italian peninsula (Chapter one), the discussion presents a picture of contemporary views about women according to scientists, theorists, moralists and jurists (Chapter two). Chapter three is devoted to the law in force in the pre-unification states with regard to women, paying close attention to the institution of dowry. Chapter four deals with a selection of case studies concerning marriage promises, seduction, and extramarital relations. What emerges from the investigation is the intrusiveness of authorities and the reach they extended into people's private lives in an effort to maintain social order and exercise power within a society founded on hierarchy, immobility, and obedience. Chapter five examines lawsuits questioning dowries and wills. These acts show the families' choices to preserve their wealth, often inevitably paving the way to future discord, with women initiating lawsuits to obtain more money from their relatives. Finally, Chapter six analyses widowhood and separation, two possible moments in a woman's existence that had important implications in terms of both their intimate sphere and the devolution of wealth. In particular, the chapter traces widows' actual access to inheritance, and women's requests for separation, focusing on the reasons that drove them before a court to relate issues pertaining to their very intimate lives, such as contracting diseases. Through the analysis of the law in action and women's use of the law itself, this thesis will recover the forgotten voices and lives of those ordinary women, who, in their everyday life, reacted against the limitations and constraints imposed upon them by society and decided not to passively accept their status.
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Books on the topic "Widowhood – history"

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Sandra, Cavallo, and Warner Lyndan, eds. Widowhood in medieval and early modern Europe. Singapore: Longman, 1999.

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Mitchell, Linda Elizabeth. Widowhood in medieval England: Baronial dowagers of the thirteenth century Welsh Marches. Ann Arbor,MI: U.M.I., 1991.

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1968-, Levy Allison M., ed. Widowhood and visual culture in early modern Europe. Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate, 2003.

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National Seminar, the "Unwanted Insiders": Representing the Widows in India (2015 Radhanagar, India). Insiders as outsiders: Essays on Indian widows & widowhood. Kolkata, India: Levant Books, 2016.

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N, Bremmer Jan, and Bosch, Lourens van den, 1944-, eds. Between poverty and the pyre: Moments in the history of widowhood. London: Routledge, 1995.

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Crabb, Ann. The Strozzi of Florence: Widowhood and family solidarity in the Renaissance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.

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Martina, Schattkowsky, ed. Witwenschaft in der frühen Neuzeit: Fürstliche und adlige Witwen zwischen Fremd- und Selbstbestimmung. [Leipzig]: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2003.

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Mutongi, Kenda Beatrice. Generations of grief and grievances: A history of widows and widowhood in Maragoli, Western Kenya, 1900 to the present. Ann Arbor: UMI Dissertation Services, 1996.

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McGinn, Thomas A. Widows and patriarchy: Ancient and modern. London: Duckworth Academic, 2004.

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Paxton, Nicholas Richard. The upbringing, family life and widowhood of the Empress Eugenie (1826-1920) with reference to her foundation of Farnborough Abbey and its history till 1920. Salford: University of Salford, 1994.

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Lam, Jack, Catherine Dickson, and Janeen Baxter. "Ageing and Loneliness: A Life Course and Cumulative Disadvantage Approach." In Family Dynamics over the Life Course, 279–96. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12224-8_13.

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AbstractLoneliness is emerging as a significant issue in modern societies with impacts on health and wellbeing. Many of the existing studies on loneliness focus on its contemporaneous correlates. Drawing on life course and cumulative disadvantage theory and data from qualitative interviews with 50 older adults living in the community, we examine how past events shape variations in later-life loneliness. We identify four factors that are of significance for understanding loneliness: (1) Formation of social networks; (2) history of familial support; (3) relocation and migration, and (4) widowhood and separation. Our findings point to the importance of maintenance of social ties over the adult life course while at the same time highlighting how disruptions to social networks impact on later-life loneliness. We also find that loneliness and disadvantage, like other social or health outcomes, compound over time.
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Thomas, Roger K. "Girlhood to Widowhood." In Counting Dreams, 18–40. Cornell University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501759994.003.0002.

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This chapter focuses on the womanhood and life of Nomura Bōtō. It starts with Bōtō's family and history of being born as Urano Moto. Moto worked under the household of Hayashi Tadamune as it was common for young women of lower-class samurai families to spend time with higher-ranking families to learn protocol and etiquette. Following her divorce, Moto met Nomura Sadatsura and had a happy married life with him and his sons. Chōsō, an infectious disease, claimed the life of Moto's second husband which resulted in her joining the nunnery and taking the name Bōtō. The chapter also tackles her journey to Kyoto.
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Light, Alison. "Experiments in Memoir-writing." In Alison Light - Inside History, 141–62. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474481557.003.0013.

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Four short personal pieces which conjure the author’s past but also question the role of memory and our idea of what pastness is. How far does memory undermine our version of history? The first concerns the ‘postmemory’ of the Second World War; the second details a visit to Portsmouth and to the author’s parents, and the beginnings of family history; the third what makes ‘A Child’s Sense of the Past’? The final article is a reflection on the nature of mourning in the wake of widowhood and the rituals of commemoration.
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Davey, Jennifer. "‘History will judge us right’." In Mary, Countess of Derby, and the Politics of Victorian Britain, 19–39. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786252.003.0001.

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Chapter 1 provides a biographical sketch of the woman at the centre of this book. Starting with her childhood, it charts Mary’s domestic life. We are introduced to Mary as daughter, wife, mother, and widow. It pieces together the little we know about Mary’s childhood, considering the political and social experiences that shaped her early years. It explores Mary’s two marriages: the first to a man thirty-three years her senior, James Cecil, second Marquess of Salisbury, and the second to Edward Stanley, fifteenth Earl of Derby. It considers her experiences of motherhood and widowhood, and what her domestic family life was like. Finally, it explores contemporary impressions of Mary, which reveal much about her personality and interests.
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McCartney, Elizabeth. "A Widow's Tears, A Queen's Ambition: The Variable History of Marie de Médicis's Bereavement." In Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe, 93–107. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315234083-6.

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Elder, Angela Esco. "Be My Wife." In Love and Duty, 13–39. University of North Carolina Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469667744.003.0002.

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This chapter examines love and loss in the antebellum South, 1820–1860, to reveal the power of emotional expression and allow a fuller understanding how the Civil War affected courtship, engagement, marriage, and widowhood. Even as women increasingly sought the love match of a companionate marriage, the South remained a patriarchy dominated by men, defined by relationships and customs. Relational labels such as daughter, fiancée, wife, mother, and widow came with a set of behavioral prescriptions. In this social contract, a white woman who behaved appropriately could expect certain comportment from those with whom she interacted, based on her age, stage, and financial situation. But even as custom influenced experiences such as courtship, emotional expression, like in love letters, played a major role in guiding (and sometimes misguiding) actions. To be sure, sermons, literature, and gossip affected those searching for love, but so did sentiment. Emotions history, cultural history, and social history come together in this chapter.
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Crowder, Susannah. "‘I, Catherine’: biography, documentary culture, and public presence." In Performing women, 61–99. Manchester University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526106407.003.0003.

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Catherine Baudoche’s versatile patronage illustrates that, in Metz, female performance fed broader currents of cultural patronage and financial agency. This chapter develops a multifaceted portrait through the biographies of Catherine and her stepmother, Catherine Gronnaix, revealing a family history that positioned these women at a nexus of social and economic power. Through ceremonial practice and entertainments, these two Catherines forged connections with local and trans-regional elites that reinforced those created by the Saint Catherine jeu. Moreover, at multiple points in their lives – early childhood, youth, marriage, widowhood, old age – the Catherines took part in financial transactions that put them at the center of performative legal acts. Catherine Gronnaix, for example, enacted her vassalage to the dukes of Lorraine through a combination of spoken oath and physical sealing. Such performances served as a sign and representation of identity that was affirmed through public rite. Personal wealth enabled the financial power that supported acts of dramatic and liturgical patronage. Yet economic ownership and agency also positioned the Catherines to represent themselves in seals, legal language, ceremonies, and household performances that established them as full participants in the Messine legal and political spheres.
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Harper, Sarah. "Sociology of normal ageing." In New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry, 1512–16. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199696758.003.0194.

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Research on the sociology of normal ageing has focused on understanding the paradigms of ‘successful ageing’. In an apparent reaction to ‘disengagement theory’ which proposed that to withdraw from roles and relationships in old age was normal, a new conceptual framework was developed in the late 1960s and 1970s which attempted to explain how individuals adapted to the constraints of ageing and old age. This has been variously measured in terms of good health, high levels of physical and mental functioning, and active engagement with one's social and physical environment. While post-modernism and critical gerontology have attempted to refocus the debate, the emphasis of most research and writing has remained within the framework of understanding, explaining, and even facilitating, ‘success’ in old age. There is also a body of research which recognizes the importance of the life course perspective, and that throughout an individual's life, he or she is faced with continuities and discontinuities which have to be negotiated and resolved. Old age is but part of this life-long process. Changes which occur in later life, such as retirement and widowhood, will lead to discontinuities in roles and relationships, other aspects of our lives will undergo little change allowing continuity. Alongside this, perspectives from anthropology, history and the social constructionist school of thought have also been recently influential. This chapter will discuss concepts of age, generation, and cohort. It will consider the contribution of the life course approach to understanding ageing, and the manner in which other perspectives, such as social constructionism, narrative psychology and anthropology, have contributed to the sociology of normal ageing.
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