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Studying Aging and Social Change Edith Wharton and it would make noThis text question the boundaries between self and society, change and stability. It includes classic treatments by Karl Mannheim and Norman Ryder, and develops fresh theoretical concepts to explore aging as a social process. The six contributions link the theoretical concepts to issues of research design and analysis, and provides insights into how we can understand fundamental social processes such as human development and socialization, the