Anthropology of Aging: Contexts, Culture and Implications
Akundy, Anand
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Book ID : 28518
ISBN-10 : 81-86771-52-2 / 8186771522
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2004
Edition :
Language :
23 cm.
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DESCRIPTION
The present inquiry is an in-depth study of the gazeted and non-gazetted retirees in Tirupati, a pilgrim town located in the north eastern part of Chittoor District in the state of Andhra Pradesh. It focuses its attention on the following lines. What exactly is the working man complex among the gazetted and non-gazetted employees? What is its influence on retirement? How does retirement represent an economically non-productive role for the retirees whose labour is not considered essential or necessary for the functioning of the economic order? Although economically, while departure from life-long career serves as the basic operational indicator of retirement, sociologically how retirement becomes a prescribed transition from a position of an economically active person in accordance with the norms through which society defines and determines the nature of this change? How do the gazetted and non-gazetted retirees face an instantaneous fall in income and social contacts? What are the similarities and differences in the patterns of adjustment of the gazetted and non-gazetted retirees? Is the post-retirement adjustment of the gazetted or non-gazetted retirees homogeneous or heterogeneous? If heterogeneous, what factors are responsible for creating the diversity in the patterns of adjustment with in the gazetted category of retirees?
