Welcome to Middle Age!: (and Other Cultural Fictions)

Name: Welcome to Middle Age!: (and Other Cultural Fictions)
SKU: INR-9780226756080
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SKU: INR-9780226756080 Category: All Books Tags: Ingram, Middle Age, Cross-cultural Studies, Later Years, Life Stages, Cultural & Social, Anthropology, Sociology, Family & Relationships, Developmental, General, Social Science, Social Psychology, Psychology

Description

The idea of “midlife, ” and particularly the decline associated with the period, has become widespread in Euro-American culture. The symptoms of middle age are equally pervasive: back pain, mortgage payments, and an aversion to loud late-night activities. This pathology of midlife has even recently begun to be exported to all territories in the contemporary world system; people around the world are being invited to change the way they think about mature adulthood and to adopt the middle-class American version of middle age. Welcome to Middle Age! (And Other Cultural Fictions) is a welcome antidote to this epidemic, providing a refreshing examination of both this received idea of midlife and of alternative “fictions” that operate in cultures where middle age does not even constitute a life stage.

Editor: Shweder, Richard A

Topic: Psychology
Media: Book
ISBN: 226756084
Language: English
Pages: 320