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This article reviews empirical research on women in retirement since 1976. The articles studied are categorized into four main areas: Women's Attitudes and Orientations Toward Retirement, Women's Preparation and Planning for Retirement, Women's Retirement Timing: Factors Related to Decisions to Retire, and Women's Adjustments to and Experiences in Retirement. Omissions and problems in the literature are identified and examined. Special attention is given to theoretical and methodological issues. The authors suggest new emphases and directions to strengthen research in this area.

ISSN:0038-0245    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1995.tb00404.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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This article analyzes the 1993 Kyana Corroboree of the Noongah Aborigines of Western Australia as a case study of the cultural production and cultural politics of ethnogenesis and indigeneity through public celebration. Kyana is a local example of how indigenous peoples globally experience “ethnic reorganization,” an often inchoate, mutable process of social reproduction that encourages the survival of an ethnic group, albeit in an altered form. This article demonstrates how Noongah and Aboriginal ethnogenesis is composed of a mercurial mixture of conflict and concordance, especially in regard to aspirations toward some level of influence over the self‐definition of Aboriginality and its symbolic representations.The organization of contemporary ethnicity and the nature of current ethnic relations reflect contemporary adaptations and continually evolving identities and institutions.—Nagel and Snipp 1993, p. 225Celebration is a “text,” a vivid aesthetic creation that reflexively depicts, interprets and informs its social context. [Celebration] articulates and modifies power relations.—Mann

ISSN:0038-0245    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1995.tb00405.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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While most sociologists now recognize the importance of urban industrial problems, there is less awareness of the causes and social significance of nonmetropolitan manufacturing decline. By means of structured and informal interviews, nonparticipant observations, and analysis of public documents, a case study was conducted to evaluate the economic and social “community impacts” of industrial restructuring in a nonurban community. Eight negative consequences of manufacturing decline were identified. The study generated information inconsistent with two prevailing explanations for recent rural industrial troubles in the United States: the underskilled production labor theory, and the deficient physical infrastructure thesis. Case evidence suggested that capital flight, economic and political network powerlessness, and managerial competency deficits may be significant causes of rural manufacturing decline. Given the significance of manufacturing for rural areas, more cogent, multidisciplinary explanations for nonurban industrial shifts need to be develo

ISSN:0038-0245    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1995.tb00406.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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Black and white people experience race relations from different social positions, thus, interpret questions about race relations differently. Structured interviews were conducted with a random sample of residents from Philadelphia and Meridian, Mississippi. These data indicate that there is a wider gap between these blacks and whites regarding their perceptions of discrimination than the gap documented by national surveys. There are interesting differences in the way the two groups interpret themselves as racist, or not, and how they remember their communities’interracial history. Content analysis is used to demonstrate differences in the understanding of race relations, segregation, and perceived danger from racially motivated violenc

ISSN:0038-0245    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1995.tb00407.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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Book reviewed in this article:The American Grocery Store: The Business Evolution of an Architectural Space, by James M. Mayo. (Contributions in American History, No. 150). Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1993, 304 pages. Cloth, $59.95Supermarkets Transformed: Understanding Organizational and Technological Innovationsby John P. Walsh. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1993, 184 pages. Cloth $36.00.The Agricultural and Food Sector in the New Global Era, edited by Alessandro Bonanno. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company, 1933, 203 pages. Paper, $12.95.Gay Cops, by Stephen Leinen. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1993, 245 pages. Cloth, $22.95.The Death of Meaning, by George V. Zito. London and Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993, 162 pages. Cloth, $49.95For Democracy: The Noble Character and Tragic Flaws of the Middle Class, by Ronald M. Glassman, William H. Swatos, Jr., and Peter Kivisto. (Contributions in Sociology, No. 105.) Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1993, 174 pages. Cloth, $49.95.AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame, by Paul Farmer. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992, 338 pages. Paper; $13.00.Paying the Piper: Causes and Consequences of Art Patronage, edited by Judith Huggins Balfe. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993, 336 pages. Paper.Thinking Critically About Research on Sex and Gender, by Paula J. Caplan and Jeremy B. Caplan. New York: Harper Collins, 1994, 125 pages. Paper, $10.Bourdieu: Critical Perspectives, edited by Craig Calhoun, Edward LiPluma, and Moishe Postone. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1993, 288 pages. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $16.95.Provisional Irish Republicans: An Oral and Interpretive History, by Robert W. White. (Contributions in Political Science, No. 309.) Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993, 206 pages. Cloth, $55.00.Risky Business: The Political Economy of Hollywood, by David F. Prindle. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993, 189 pages. Cloth, $49.95.The Constant Flux: A Study of Class Mobility in Industrial Societies, by Robert Erikson and John H. Goldthorpe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992, 429 pages, Paper, $19.95.Social Theory and Social Policy: Essays in Honor of James S. Coleman, edited by Aage B. Sbrensen and Seymour Spilerman. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993, 272 pages. Cloth, $59.95.Painful Inheritance: Health and the New Generation of Fatherless Families, by Ronald J. Angel and Jacqueline L. Angel. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993, 264 pages. Cloth, $52.00; paper, $19.95

ISSN:0038-0245    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1995.tb00408.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY