Adding paths to resilience and daily accounts to an already rich field of inquiry: A brief commentary on James Jackson's "Social structure and health disparities"


Autoria(s): Zautra, Alex J.; Murray, Kate E.; Parish, Brendt P.
Contribuinte(s)

Schaie, K. Warner

Carstensen, Laura L.

Data(s)

06/07/2006

Resumo

In absolute terms, there have been improvements in social resources for all racial and ethnic groups in the United States. The rise in education levels among blacks and Hispanics, for instance, suggests a lessening of the gap between classes, beginning in the later part of the 1960’s (Kao & Thompson, 2003). Yet the divide in income and to a lesser extent education between peoples who differ in gender, skin color and ethnic origin continues and in many ways is greater now than ever (Danziger & Gottschalk, 1997); (Gottschalk, 1997). The psychological distance between those high and those low in social-economic status continues unabated and threatens to undermine the capacity of communities to foster the positive architecture of hope, optimism and equal opportunity that holds us together as a nation...

Identificador

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/87709/

Publicador

Springer

Relação

http://www.springerpub.com/social-structures-aging-and-self-regulation-in-the-elderly.html

Zautra, Alex J., Murray, Kate E., & Parish, Brendt P. (2006) Adding paths to resilience and daily accounts to an already rich field of inquiry: A brief commentary on James Jackson's "Social structure and health disparities". In Schaie, K. Warner & Carstensen, Laura L. (Eds.) Social structures, aging, and self-regulation in the elderly. Springer, New York.

Fonte

Faculty of Health; Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation; School of Psychology & Counselling

Palavras-Chave #170102 Developmental Psychology and Ageing #170106 Health Clinical and Counselling Psychology
Tipo

Book Chapter