Journal Article Old Age In a Bureaucratic Society. Edited by David Van Tassel and Peter Stearns and Our Aging Society. Edited by Alan Pifer and Lydia Bronte Get access Jon Hendricks Jon Hendricks University of Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 21, Issue 2, Winter 1987, Pages 343–346, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/21.2.343 Published: 01 December 1987

Journal Article Old Age in Preindustrial Society. Edited by Peter N. Stearns (New York: Holmes and Meier Publishers, Inc., 1982. 280 pp.) Get access Jon Hendricks Jon Hendricks University of Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 18, Issue 2, Winter 1984, Pages 307–310, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/18.2.307 Published: 01 December 1984

Modernization theory provides a successful conceptual model in gerontology for two reasons. First, and most obviously, it establishes an integrative framework for those who focus on cross-cultural and historical patterns of aging in comparative contexts. In addition, together with the age-stratification model (Riley, Johnson, and Foner, 1972), it has fostered a movement away from an emphasis on individualistic, psychological explanations of adjustment and adaptation toward a more macrolevel orientation. As a consequence, research in aging has gradually become more attuned to the importance of structural arrangements and their impact on the roles and statuses accorded the elderly. The purpose of this article is to expand further the focus on societal factors and to suggest a needed redirection of our research interests.

This study investigates the existence of age related life stages and the presumed evolution of attitudes and perceptions in accordance with passages through these successive developmental plateaus. The research utilizes data from six national samples gathered as part of the General Social Survey between 1972 and 1977 by the National Opinion Research Center (N=9120). Criteria suggested by developmental theorists and other social scientists are employed to examine respondents' life orientation and satisfaction. In most Instances age is minimally related to attitudes in these areas while social class and to a lesser extent race and sex emerge as statistically significant and substantively important predictors of these dimensions. The results suggest the difficulties in identifying age related adult life phases through national surveys of attitudes and challenges the underlying assumptions for the existence of uniform age related stages.

"Leisure and Recreation Places. By Neil H. Cheek, Jr., Donald R. Field, and Rabel J. Burdge." Journal of Leisure Research, 9(3), pp. 233–234

Journal Article The Social Forces in Later Life—An Introduction to Social Gerontology Get access The Social Forces in Later Life—An Introduction to Social Gerontology, by Robert C. Atchley. Belmont, Ca: Wadsworth, 1972, 338 pp., $8.95. Jon Hendricks, PhD Jon Hendricks, PhD Dept. of Sociology University of Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Gerontologist, Volume 13, Issue 3_Part_1, Autumn 1973, Pages 388–389, https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/13.3_Part_1.388 Published: 01 October 1973

"Daydreams and Nightmares: A Sociological Essay on the American Environment. By William R. Burch, Jr.." Journal of Leisure Research, 4(1), pp. 77–78