Age and Generation in Modern Britain

This book provides the student with a comprehensive and accessible overview of the role and importance of age and generation in Britain today.

`Excellent for a number of my courses.' Alan Robertshaw, University of Lancaster

`Accessible text. Clear, concise and interesting presentation.' Mr Emptage, University of Humberside

`Excellent price, good introductory material.' S. Conway, University of Humberside

`A useful introductory text which is up to date and covers a lot of ground succinctly.' Richard Pugh, North East Wales Institute

`Fills a gap in literature.' J.F. Bennett, Kingston University

A systematic and immediately accessible account of this `new frontier' of sociological analysis ... a valuable introduction to this neglected but increasingly significant area of sociological inquiry.

Jane Pilcher's book fills an important gap in the sociological literature by providing an overview on the role and the importance of age in contemporary British society ... Written in a clear and accessible style, the book is an excellent introduction to the sociology of age and generation.

After giving a concise account of the relevant sociological theories, the author chooses the life-course approach to discuss life stages from childhood to old age ... The style is accessible and lively. Many sources are used and there are suggestions for further reading for each chapter.

The aim of this book is laudable; it seeks to present age as an important factor in the stratification of society, in a format suitable for the newcomer and the general reader ... an important contribution to setting an age-oriented agenda at under-graduate level ... this is a good introductory text which doesn't assume a high level of knowledge and is written in an accessible manner. Its clarity and organisation makes it suitable as a first-year undergraduate text or as an introduction to more specialised courses on such topics as ageing or the lifecourse ... this text pulls together a vast array of material which can be used to help undergraduates engage with issues which, until recently, have been "invisible" within academic debate, such as age and stratification, power and inter-generational and inter-cohort relationships. As such, it makes a clear contribution to the integration of the topic of ageing into the undergraduate curriculum.