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L'ampleur et l'exceptionnalité qui ont caractérisé le baby-boom ont concouru à en construire une représentation dénuée de nuances. L'ouvrage interroge alors l'hétérogénéité qui a caractérisé ce phénomène dans le contexte suisse. Dans une perspective de parcours de vie et en recourant à des méthodes mixtes, l'interrelation des trajectoires familiales et professionnelles des cohortes féminines est examinée au regard du système de valeurs promulgué dans la société suisse de l'époque pour montrer comment un phénomène d'ampleur a pu être le produit d'une diversité de parcours de vie. Si l'ouvrage se concentre sur la Suisse, le développement de l'approche méthodologique mixte qu'il propose offre un cadre d'analyse renouvelé, dont les apports pour la compréhension du baby-boom peuvent être transférer à divers contextes nationaux et à l'étude d'autres phénomènes démographiques.
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Because researchers often treat baby boomers of color as belonging to one group, quality data on the individual status of specific racial populations is lacking, leading to insufficiently designed programs, policies, and services. The absence of data is a testament to the invisibility of baby boomers of color in society and deeply affects the practice of social work and other helping professions that require culturally sensitive approaches. Melvin Delgado rectifies this injustice by providing a comprehensive portrait of the status and unique assets of boomers of color. Using specific data, he grounds an understanding of boomers 'financial, medical, and emotional needs within a historical, socioeconomic, cultural, and political context, resulting in tailored recommendations for meeting the challenges of a growing population. His research focuses on African American, Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander, and Native American older adults and addresses issues of financial security, employment stability, housing, and health care, which are often complicated by linguistic and cultural differences. Rather than treat baby boomers of color as a financial burden on society and its resources, Delgado recognizes their strengths and positive contributions to families and communities, resulting in an affirming and empowering approach to service.
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In large chain bookstores the "religion" section is gone and in its place is an expanding number of topics including angels, Sufism, journey, recovery, meditation, magic, inspiration, Judaica, astrology, gurus, Bible, prophesy, evangelicalism, Mary, Buddhism, Catholicism, and esoterica. As Wade Clark Roof notes, such changes over the last two decades reflect a shift away from religion as traditionally understood to more diverse and creative approaches. But what does this splintering of the religious perspective say about Americans? Have we become more interested in spiritual concerns or have we become lost among trends? Do we value personal spirituality over traditional religion and no longer see ourselves united in a larger community of faith? Roof first credited this religious diversity to the baby boomers in his bestselling A Generation of Seekers (1993). He returns to interview many of these people, now in mid-life, to reveal a generation with a unique set of spiritual values--a generation that has altered our historic interpretations of religious beliefs, practices, and symbols, and perhaps even our understanding of the sacred itself. The quest culture created by the baby boomers has generated a "marketplace" of new spiritual beliefs and practices and of revisited traditions. As Roof shows, some Americans are exploring faiths and spiritual disciplines for the first time; others are rediscovering their lost traditions; others are drawn to small groups and alternative communities; and still others create their own mix of values and metaphysical beliefs. Spiritual Marketplace charts the emergence of five subcultures: dogmatists, born-again Christians, mainstream believers, metaphysical believers and seekers, and secularists. Drawing on surveys and in-depth interviews for over a decade, Roof reports on the religious and spiritual styles, family patterns, and moral vision and values for each of these subcultures. The result is an innovative, engaging approach to understanding how religious life is being reshaped as we move into the next century.
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This book is a rich exploration of the baby boomers - those coming of age in the sixties and now entering old age - the influences that have shaped how they perceive ageing appearance, how they define ageing and beauty, and the meaning of appearance, beauty, and identity. The book draws from a variety of sources from ageing research, history and gender studies and a diverse group of interviewees. The longevity revolution and shifting notions of identity coalesce as older women and men seek to find new modes of self-presentation as they age. Ageing is a profoundly embodied process, yet older people's concerns about appearance and beauty is perceived, by many, as trivial or a function of consumer society. Investigating notions of appearance and beauty as a core human concern, the author explores Western cultural notions of beauty. What then is beauty in old age? Is it even a possibility given the history of youth and aesthetic preference? The book seeks to bring forward ideas of age and beauty as defined by baby boomers, how they see themselves and how they are seen.
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Anselm Doering-Manteuffel hat über mehrere Jahrzehnte das Nachdenken über deutsche Zeitgeschichte entscheidend mitgeprägt und dem 20. Jahrhundert eine historiographische Ordnung gegeben. Deren Konturen werden im ersten Teil des Bandes deutlich, der die zeithistorische Epoche aus der Vogelperspektive in den Blick nimmt. Die darauf folgenden Aufsätze gelten den Suchbewegungen zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts, als aufgrund der weitverbreiteten Forschrittsskepsis der Liberalismus in die Krise geriet. Die Beiträge des dritten Teils widmen sich hingegen dem Ost-West-Konflikt, dem Prozess der Westernisierung sowie den Strukturbrüchen "nach dem Boom". Die insgesamt fünfzehn Aufsätze zeigen, wie sich eine Gesellschaftsgeschichte handlungssteuernder Ideen im 20. Jahrhundert in internationaler Perspektive denken lässt. Over many decades, Anselm Doering-Manteuffel has greatly influenced thinking about contemporary German history, giving a historiographic structure to the 20th century. The fifteen essays in this volume reveal how a social history of ideas that guided action in the 20th century can be applied to international perspectives.
Historiography --- After the boom. --- East-West conflict. --- intellectual history. --- liberalism.
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The first baby boomers are turning 60 this year, and unprecedented numbers of them are thinking of careers beyond retirement. The youngest baby boomers are in their early 40s and reaching the peak of their work lives. What all these millions of people have in common is a desire to find satisfying work that complements their personal lives rather than distracts from it. Expert Resumes for Baby Boomers presents more than 100 professionally written sample resumes for people facing career crossroads: advancing, downsizing, retiring, returning to work after an absence, changing careers, starting th
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After more than six decades of breaking the rules established by their elders, the Baby-Boom generation and older Americans are one and the same. In 2014, Boomers spanned the ages from 50 to 68, accounting for 24 percent of the total U.S. population and 71 percent of the population aged 50 or older. The eighth edition of The Baby Boom: Americans Born 1946 to 1964 includes in its pages, for the first time, a statistical profile of the U.S. population aged 50 or older-absorbing the New Strategist reference book Older Americans: A Changed Market into one volume. Boomers already dominate the older
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When it was first published, What If Boomers Can't Retire? predicted what would happen when boomers switched from buying stocks to selling them for retirement income. Since then-and as predicted by author Thornton Parker-stocks have become less important, prices have declined, corporations have shifted their emphasis from inflating stocks to just surviving, and there is currently a recession in full swing.This book shows that there is a bright side, however. If enough boomers work in their later years and preserve their capital, and if the country improves the way it uses capital, the results
Retirement income --- Stocks --- Financial security. --- Baby boom generation --- Planning. --- Prices --- Social aspects. --- Economic aspects.
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