Article: Jenny Hockey and Alison James, Social Identities across the Life Course.(Book Review)

Jenny Hockey and Alison James, Social Identities across the Life Course. New York: Pagrave Macmillan, 2003. $75 hardcover, $24.95 papercover.

Social identification across the life course examines the concept of social identities by refraining our perceived notion of aging. The task is to explain life processes and their impact on peoples' everyday lives that consider age as integral to one's identity and note that surprisingly little is known about age based identification. They explore research within the social sciences from two separate areas, social identity and aging across the life cycle. They contend that one cannot develop a frame of reference as how we ...

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