"""Everybody Here Used to Be Somebody"": Recapturing Self-Continuity in a Retirement Town"
Chung, Gene-Woong
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Description
Title
"""Everybody Here Used to Be Somebody"": Recapturing Self-Continuity in a Retirement Town"
Author(s)
Chung, Gene-Woong
Issue Date
1998
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
David W. Plath
Department of Study
Anthropology
Discipline
Anthropology
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Psychology, Developmental
Language
eng
Abstract
In response, the residents of Eliotville have developed a wide range of measures which compensate for their limited opportunities. A wide range of club and volunteer activities, not specifically geared toward the achievement of self-continuity, enable the residents to repeatedly engage themselves in biographically meaningful activities and social environments. A sense of a perduring self thus sustained and renewed, buttresses the residents in their struggle against the individuality-negating rhetoric of old age prevalent in the larger society. Their engagement in volunteer work also helps them reclaim a moral stature which has been chipped away by the act of retirement.
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