"""Everybody Here Used to Be Somebody"": Recapturing Self-Continuity in a Retirement Town"

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.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Anthropology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Chung, Gene-Woong

Contributors dc:contributor

• David W. Plath

• Psychology, Developmental

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9904412

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/85316