By Harold G. Cox

An interdisciplinary creation to the getting older strategy which makes use of symbolic interactionism because the major theoretical viewpoint. obtainable, interdisciplinary assurance with chapters masking numerous subject material parts from biology to psychology, from economics to sociology, from political technological know-how to faith. makes use of symbolic interplay point of view to provide an explanation for habit difficulties and an individual's variations linked to the method of aging.

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