Sociology

Book Report

A well balanced book written by S.M. Hillier & G.M.Barrow is known as “Aging, the Individual & the society”. The book contains well balanced approach and it also describes the ways and methods by which a proper balance can be achieved between the practical and scholarly discussion. The book also highlights the means and ways of understanding senior citizen. The book offers improved learning's in many compelling ways. This learning has equipped the young individuals to understand the senior citizens. This book also makes it easy for the young individuals to work with senior citizens. Therefore, this book is known as best book to build a better society where senior citizens have respect and worth.

It is a well established fact that aging is a natural phenomenon and all living individuals are supposed to pass through this phase. There are few serious questions such as how to pass this phase? Answer to this question is yet very much simple and i.e. by loving them and by knowing everyone. Life is a precious gift from god, and this is the one of main and an important reason that why and how we should take care of life so that no further issues can be generated. Therefore, every chapter of this book briefly describes the ways by which one can actually learn how to work with senior citizen, how to give them respect and how much important they are.

This book tries to teach its readers that the senior citizens are not worthless and require a considerable amount of respect from the younger individuals of the society. This book provides help in learning the effective ways to deal with the elder members of the society. There are certain ways which indicates respectful behavior that has to be adopted by young individuals in order to form a better society.

There are few other crucial issues in making a society where senior citizens have respect such as how society influenced individuals and what are the hard and fast rules relating to this relationship. These issues are also highlighted in the book. This book is termed as a crucial one because it shed light on various perspectives by which one can easily know that how to live in a society and how to behave and what actually society is and how it influenced people.

The book also covers the topic of aging, influence of society on individuals and how ...