Jon Hendricks
Biographic Data
| ID | 3619935 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jon Hendricks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jon |
| FAMILY NAME | Hendricks |
| SIGNATURE | HENDRICKS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oregon State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 101 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Need for Theory: Critical Approaches to Social Gerontology
Institutionalization and Alternative Futures
No one wants to put an aging relative in a home. But very few people have an understanding of the issues involved and options available for an older person who needs outside care. This important book offers a variety of new insights into ways of maximizing choice, independence, and well-being, and minimizing the emotional stunting often associated with institutionalization. Both imaginative institutional programs and such alternatives as communit…
Handbook of Asian Aging
In western countries, the rising tide of population aging took 100 years to alter the face of societies, but Asia is experiencing comparable changes in not much more than a quarter of a century. Contributors to Handbook of Aging describe the magnitude of these changes and their effects on the aged and on societies attempting to adapt to the dramatic improvements in life expectancy brought on by rapid economic and social transformations. Asia enco…
Considering Life Course Concepts
The Welfare State in Post-Industrial Society: A Global Perspective
Theorizing in social gerontology: The raison d'être
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contextualise the need for a social theory of ageing. For a long time, social gerontology has been accused of being “data rich but theory poor”. The paper reviews this and maps out the importance of research themes of social theory and sets the scene for the articles that have used social theory in an innovative way to shed light on international experiences of ageing. Design/methodology/approach The paper …
The sociological construction of ageing: Lessons for theorising
Purpose The purpose of this concluding paper is to reflect on the theories of ageing well delineated by the papers of the special issue. It sets research themes that social theorists of ageing should reflect upon in creating conceptual tools to understanding the power dynamics of older people and modern society. Design/methodology/approach The paper is an overview of the key issues that have been found by theories introduced throughout the specia…
Coming of age
Gerontology Key Thinkers: Donald P. Kent (1916–1972)
Donald P. Kent, a key figure in social gerontology, was both sociologist and government official who helped ensure passage of the Older Americans Act and was instrumental in establishing the Administration on Aging
Leisure, Aging and
Leisure and well‐being are closely entwined throughout life. Whether defined as free time or volitional activity, the significance of leisure is that it provides opportunities wherein the quest for meaning is self‐absorbing and yields subjectively salutary results. Given changes in the character of work, certainty of careers, timing of retirement, and improvements in health, it is reasonable to assert that leisure will occupy an important place i…
Volunteerism and Socioemotional Selectivity in Later Life
Socioemotional selectivity theory is applicable to voluntary activities
Public policies and old age identity
Age Differences in Home Computer Availability and Use
The lower rates of home computer availability and use exhibited by older persons may be accounted for to some extent by compositional characteristics negatively associated with availability and, to a lesser extent, use of computers, although unmeasured attitudes, experience, and support undoubtedly play a role
Paths to Successful Development: Personality in the Life Course
Age Differences in Voluntary Association Memberships: Fact or Artifact
The lower levels of voluntary association memberships of older persons consistently identified in bivariate analyses appear to be largely due to differences in compositional characteristics between the older and other age groups
When Baby Boom Women Retire
Cicero and social gerontology: Context and interpretation of a classic
Recognizing the relativity of gender in aging research
Learning to act old: Heroes, villains or old fools
Forum: Leisure and the Structure of our Life Worlds
Leisure research among the elderly has not kept pace with its significance in their lives. While the centrality of work is often discussed, a comparable role for leisure is seldom acknowledged. Through a blending of life-course and structural-level perspectives this paper discusses the need for conceptual innovation in leisure research. A broader perspective on the nature of leisure, its structure and the emerging need to address leisure as a for…
Social Networks and Depression Among the Elderly: Metropolitan/Nonmetropolitan Comparisons
Contradictory findings have been reported about depression in the elderly living in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan regions of the United States. Additionally, the extent to which the same sets of variables are predictive of depression among the elderly living in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan environments is unknown. We examined these issues using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES‐D) and a national sample of elderly r…
Rewards and Impacts of Participation in a Gerontology Extension Program
Because involvement in specific organizations typically is part of a general pattern of social participation, understanding the effects of activity in a particular realm is difficult. A 1985 program designed to make the skills of retired professionals available to public service agencies provided an opportunity to follow volunteers during various stages of their participation. It also permitted an assessment of the impact of their volunteer work …
Foodways of the Elderly: Social Research Considerations
Making sense of literary aging: Relevance of recent gerontological theory
Explorations in Time: Introduction to the Fourth Dimension in Gerontology
Considering Life Course Concepts
The Need for Theory: Critical Approaches to Social Gerontology
Volunteerism and Socioemotional Selectivity in Later Life
Socioemotional selectivity theory is applicable to voluntary activities
Age Differences in Voluntary Association Memberships: Fact or Artifact
The lower levels of voluntary association memberships of older persons consistently identified in bivariate analyses appear to be largely due to differences in compositional characteristics between the older and other age groups
The sociological construction of ageing: Lessons for theorising
Purpose The purpose of this concluding paper is to reflect on the theories of ageing well delineated by the papers of the special issue. It sets research themes that social theorists of ageing should reflect upon in creating conceptual tools to understanding the power dynamics of older people and modern society. Design/methodology/approach The paper is an overview of the key issues that have been found by theories introduced throughout the specia…
The Ideal Type and Sociological Theory
Though widely used in the literature of sociology ideal types have received little systematic explication. One of the difficulties is the ambiguity surrounding the usage of types as theoretical or definitional statements. Beginning with the types constructed by Weber and his contemporaries the discussion proceeds by analyzing subsequent revisions as they relate to the subject matter of the social sciences. Suggestions for improving the explanator…
Coming of age
Public policies and old age identity
Age Differences in Home Computer Availability and Use
The lower rates of home computer availability and use exhibited by older persons may be accounted for to some extent by compositional characteristics negatively associated with availability and, to a lesser extent, use of computers, although unmeasured attitudes, experience, and support undoubtedly play a role
The Phenomenon of Sociology
Making sense of literary aging: Relevance of recent gerontological theory
Forum: Leisure and the Structure of our Life Worlds
Leisure research among the elderly has not kept pace with its significance in their lives. While the centrality of work is often discussed, a comparable role for leisure is seldom acknowledged. Through a blending of life-course and structural-level perspectives this paper discusses the need for conceptual innovation in leisure research. A broader perspective on the nature of leisure, its structure and the emerging need to address leisure as a for…
An Alternative Perspective on Retirement a Dual Economic Approach
A structural model for examining retirement is presented in the context of a political economy of ageing. Contemporary capitalist economies may be conceived of in terms of macro-level organisation which results in a monopolistic core and competitive peripheral sectors. In turn this configuration serves to colour individual life-experience. Data on differential worker- and work-related characteristics are presented as a means of explicating the ne…
Recognizing the relativity of gender in aging research
Lifecourse and Structure: The Fate of the Art
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Leisure, Aging and
Leisure and well‐being are closely entwined throughout life. Whether defined as free time or volitional activity, the significance of leisure is that it provides opportunities wherein the quest for meaning is self‐absorbing and yields subjectively salutary results. Given changes in the character of work, certainty of careers, timing of retirement, and improvements in health, it is reasonable to assert that leisure will occupy an important place i…
The Times of Our Lives
Leisure in the Soviet Union: An Impressionistic Account
Daydreams and Nightmares: A Sociological Essay on the American Environment. By William R. Burch, Jr
Daydreams and Nightmares: A Sociological Essay on the American Environment. By William R. Burch, Jr.." Journal of Leisure Research, 4(1), pp. 77–78
Defining the Situation: Reflection of Life Styles in Funeral Eulogies
The nature of funeral orations was analyzed. Based on participant observation of over 100 funeral services in central Pennsylvania the nature of the variables which condition eulogies was assessed and two orientations outlined. For those individuals who were seen as the victims of life or who lacked an element of control over their own life-situation, death was treated as a release, which enabled them to realize their true potential. For the grou…
Down to Earth Sociology
Leisure in the Soviet Union: An Impressionistic Account
The Ideal Type and Sociological Theory
Though widely used in the literature of sociology ideal types have received little systematic explication. One of the difficulties is the ambiguity surrounding the usage of types as theoretical or definitional statements. Beginning with the types constructed by Weber and his contemporaries the discussion proceeds by analyzing subsequent revisions as they relate to the subject matter of the social sciences. Suggestions for improving the explanator…
The Phenomenon of Sociology
The Homeless Mind: Modernization and Consciousness
Synderesis and Phenomenology: Intermediate Concepts of Value and Law in Social Science
Origins of German social thought
The German Enlightenment has been ignored in accounts of the origins of sociological theory. The works of Leibniz, Lessing, and Herder contain a number of ideas that influenced the intellectual climate in which later German social thought took shape. We discuss several of these ideas in some detail and suggest some of their influences in the works of Marx, Weber, and Simmel. The major portion of the paper is devoted to the exposition of the incip…
The Elderly in Society: Beyond Modernization
The Elderly in Society: Beyond Modernization
Modernization theory provides a successful conceptual model in gerontology for two reasons. First, and most obviously, it establishes an integrative framework for those who focus on cross-cultural and historical patterns of aging in comparative contexts. In addition, together with the age-stratification model (Riley, Johnson, and Foner, 1972), it has fostered a movement away from an emphasis on individualistic, psychological explanations of adjus…
Exploring the Life Course
An Alternative Perspective on Retirement a Dual Economic Approach
A structural model for examining retirement is presented in the context of a political economy of ageing. Contemporary capitalist economies may be conceived of in terms of macro-level organisation which results in a monopolistic core and competitive peripheral sectors. In turn this configuration serves to colour individual life-experience. Data on differential worker- and work-related characteristics are presented as a means of explicating the ne…
Controversial Issues in Gerontology
Lifecourse and Structure: The Fate of the Art
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Explorations in Time: Introduction to the Fourth Dimension in Gerontology
The Times of Our Lives
Making sense of literary aging: Relevance of recent gerontological theory
Social Networks and Depression Among the Elderly: Metropolitan/Nonmetropolitan Comparisons
Contradictory findings have been reported about depression in the elderly living in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan regions of the United States. Additionally, the extent to which the same sets of variables are predictive of depression among the elderly living in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan environments is unknown. We examined these issues using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES‐D) and a national sample of elderly r…
Rewards and Impacts of Participation in a Gerontology Extension Program
Because involvement in specific organizations typically is part of a general pattern of social participation, understanding the effects of activity in a particular realm is difficult. A 1985 program designed to make the skills of retired professionals available to public service agencies provided an opportunity to follow volunteers during various stages of their participation. It also permitted an assessment of the impact of their volunteer work …
Foodways of the Elderly: Social Research Considerations
Forum: Leisure and the Structure of our Life Worlds
Leisure research among the elderly has not kept pace with its significance in their lives. While the centrality of work is often discussed, a comparable role for leisure is seldom acknowledged. Through a blending of life-course and structural-level perspectives this paper discusses the need for conceptual innovation in leisure research. A broader perspective on the nature of leisure, its structure and the emerging need to address leisure as a for…
Learning to act old: Heroes, villains or old fools
Cicero and social gerontology: Context and interpretation of a classic
Recognizing the relativity of gender in aging research
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