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Minority Studies: A Brief Sociological Text is a very, very brief textbook suitable for use as a supplemental or stand-alone text in a college-level minority studies Sociology course. Any instructor who would choose to use this as a stand-alone textbook would need to supply a large amount of statistical data and other pertinent and extraneous Sociological material in order to "flesh-out" fully this course. Each module/unit of Minority Studies: A Brief Sociological Text contains the text, course objectives, a study guide, key terms and concepts, a lecture outline, assignments, and a reading list.

Minority studies: a brief text: reading list for part iv—aging

Dispelling Ageism: The Cross-Cutting Intervention . Robert N. Butler. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science , Vol. 503, The Quality of Aging: Strategies for Interventions. (May, 1989), pp. 138-147.

An Overview of Research on Aging and the Status of Gerontology Today . Robert N. Butler. The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly. Health and Society , Vol. 61, No. 3, Special Issue: Aging: Demographic, Health, and Social Prospects. (Summer, 1983), pp. 351-361.

The Relation of Extended Life to Extended Employment since the Passage of Social Security in 1935 . Robert N. Butler. The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly. Health and Society , Vol. 61, No. 3, Special Issue: Aging: Demographic, Health, and Social Prospects. (Summer, 1983), pp. 420-429.

What’s Best for the Elderly Research Subject? (in Correspondence). Robert N. Butler; Robert E. Vestal; Richard Ratzan. The Hastings Center Report , Vol. 11, No. 4. (Aug., 1981), pp. 45-46.

Successful Aging and Quality of Life. Yuchi Young; Ming-Yu Fan; Elizabeth A. Skinner; Albert Wu. Quality of Life Research , Vol. 11, No. 7, Abstracts: 9th Annual Conference of the International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL). (Nov., 2002), p. 645.

Antiaging Technology and Pseudoscience (in Science’s Compass; Letters). Aubrey D. N. J. de Grey; Leonid Gavrilov; S. Jay Olshansky; L. Stephen Coles; Richard G. Cutler; Michael Fossel; S. Mitchell Harman. Science , New Series, Vol. 296, No. 5568. (Apr. 26, 2002), p. 656.

Aging Mechanisms (in From the Academy: Japanese-American Frontiers of Science Symposium). Yoshiko Takahashi; Makoto Kuro-o; Fuyuki Ishikawa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , Vol. 97, No. 23. (Nov. 7, 2000), pp. 12407-12408.

Aging and the Satisfaction of Psychological Needs (in Commentaries). Peter G. Coleman. Psychological Inquiry , Vol. 11, No. 4. (2000), pp. 291-293.

Expectations regarding Aging among Older Adults and Physicians Who Care for Older Adults. Catherine A. Sarkisian; Ron D. Hays; Sandra H. Berry; Carol M. Mangione. Medical Care , Vol. 39, No. 9. (Sep., 2001), pp. 1025-1036.

The Quest to Reverse Time’s Toll (in Bodybuilding: The Bionic Human). Constance Holden. Science , New Series, Vol. 295, No. 5557. (Feb. 8, 2002), pp. 1032-1033.

A Gray Zone? Meetings between Sociology and Gerontology (in Symposia; Sociology and Border Disciplines: Opportunities and Barriers to Intellectua). Gunhild O. Hagestad. Contemporary Sociology , Vol. 28, No. 5. (Sep., 1999), pp. 514-517.

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