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A Life Course Perspective On Retirement: Normative Trajectories
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August 14, 2014 by Jean

In Pascale, Primavera and Roach’s book The Retirement Maze (see Retirement Transition Reading: The Retirement Maze), “life course theory” is …
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Category: Retirement transition, sociology of retirement | Tags: finishing work, life course theory, retirement, retirement age, retirement and women
The Threat of Marginality
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July 1, 2014 by Jean

In his book The Experience of Retirement, Robert S. Weiss notes that, All retirees face the same two challenges of …
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Category: Aging, Gender | Tags: aging, house addition, retirement and women, Robert S. Weiss, The Experience of Retirement
Both Exciting and Scary
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February 16, 2014 by Jean

Recently, I asked one of my senior students how she was feeling about her impending graduation from college, and she …
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Category: retirement books, Retirement transition | Tags: Carl Klaus, emotional responses to retirement, finishing work, Nancy Williamson, retirement, retirement and women
Negotiating Retirement
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April 3, 2013 by Jean

I have always been a “good girl”: the type of child who wanted to please the teachers; the type of …
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Category: Retirement finances, Retirement transition | Tags: negotiation, Retirement agreements, retirement and women, single women

I am Jean Potuchek, a professional sociologist who has just stepped into the next phase of my life, retirement, after more than thirty years of college teaching. This blog is about my experience of that new phase of life.

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