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Objective and Subjective Perspectives of Life Span Research*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2008

Leopold Rosenmayr
Leopold Rosenmayr
Affiliation:
Professor of Sociology, University of Vienna (and Director, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Social Gerontology and Life Span Research) Institut für Soziologie, Universität Wien, 1080 Wien, Alserstrasse 33, Austria.
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The paper argues for a theoretical renewal of basic perspectives for ageing research. A longitudinal, ‘historical’ view of the personality is advocated as it is expected to permit a deeper understanding of needs as well as chances for renewal, re-training, prophylactic and rehabilitative measures of and for persons in later life. A psychosocial theory of cumulation of general life conditions and special events, interpreted and reacted to by the subjects, will supposedly enlarge the more static conceptions of ‘social factors of ageing’.

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Research Article
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Ageing & Society , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , January 1981 , pp. 29 - 49
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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