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Full-Text Articles in Sociology
Income Protection And The Elderly : An Examination Of Social Security Policy In Singapore, Keng Mun, William Lee
Income Protection And The Elderly : An Examination Of Social Security Policy In Singapore, Keng Mun, William Lee
Centre for Public Policy Studies : CPPS Working Paper Series
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Positive Effects Of Modernization On Later Life, Wing Kin, Kenneth Law
Positive Effects Of Modernization On Later Life, Wing Kin, Kenneth Law
Centre for Public Policy Studies : CPPS Working Paper Series
Early gerontological theories (e.g., role theory, subculture theory, disengagement theory, activity theory and modernization theory) on the study of the elderly used to concentrate on the discussion of the effects of various kinds of social change on individuals' later life adaptation. Modernization has conventionally been perceived as a bad dream for most elderly people. It is the modernization which deskills them, devalues their experiences, take away their authority, ... and finally leaves them in misery.
The validity and applicability of this simple relationship between modernization and the misery of later life as a result of the decline of social status …