Review
"The topics are up-to-date and relevant. The text includes recent information in the field but also does not neglect to provide historical information."
-- Lorry Cology
Owens Community College
"The "Implications for the Future" feature at the end of the chapters is a strong point. Not only does it provide a thoughtful assessment of issues for the student, it emphasizes that the field is a dynamic one - it is changing and is going to continue to change."
-- Lorry Cology
Owens Community College
"The text's focus on the positive also helps dispel the many of the myths students believe about aging."
-- Lorry Cology
Owens Community College
"We have used the Research Navigator in many of my Gerontology classes. The students seem to like this and I find it very helpful in obtaining articles and for the use in the classroom while we are discussing a particular topic. I will often have the students send me the article they are reviewing so I can follow their research and paper.
-- Judy McDonald
Metropolitan Community College
'Overall the textbook is an excellent resource for teaching this class and the supplements are great for teachers and students."
-- Judy McDonald
Metropolitan Community College
"The text is very thorough and I feel the authors did a good job in explaining issues/topics."
-- Judy McDonald
Metropolitan Community College
From the Back Cover
Social Gerontology with MySocKit, 8/E
Nancy Hooyman
H. Asuman Kiyak
ISBN-10: 020552561X
This best-selling, multidisciplinary, social aging text presents positive images of aging while considering the many factors that contribute to how aging individuals experience life.
Up-to-date and expanded, this text offers a comprehensive view that presents aging positively, portraying concepts of active aging and resiliency, and defining “productive aging” by elaborating on the numerous ways elders contribute to society and their families. Based on the latest research findings, it offers greater depth to critical issues of aging, attending to differences by age and cohort, gender, ethnic minority status, sexual orientation, and socio-economic status.
NEW TO THIS EDITION
MySocKit (www.sockit.com).
MySocKit is a book-specific online resource. MySocKit for Social Gerontology 8/e includes over 60 minutes of documentary-style video that illustrates many of the issues and concepts discussed in the text.
Other features of MySocKit include:
- book-specific practice tests
- chapter summaries
- New York Times articles
- audio and video activities
- writing and research tutorials
- access to scholarly literature on aging through Research Navigator
- an annotated bibliography of recommended Research Navigator articles.
MySocKit will also contain the telecourse study guide material to accompany "Growing Old in a New Age" (formerly published as a separate print study guide).
A MySocKit access code card is packaged automatically with every copy of Social Gerontology 8/e.
