Environmental extension: A concept emerging from the importance of mass transportation in the lives of elderly New Yorkers.
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Title
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Environmental extension: A concept emerging from the importance of mass transportation in the lives of elderly New Yorkers.
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Identifier
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AAI9630486
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identifier
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9630486
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Creator
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Maldonado-Lugo, Roberto.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Maxine Wolfe
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Date
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1996
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Gerontology | Sociology, Individual and Family Studies | Transportation | Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies
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Abstract
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This research addresses the issue of the importance of urban mass transportation to 27 Hispanic women, sixty-five years and older who live in Queens, New York. It seeks to reveal the mediators that influence these women's spatial and psychological extension within the urban context.;Chapter 1, presents the conceptual framework upon which this research is based. The researcher begins by making explicit his presuppositions about the life-world. This is followed by a review and a brief discussion of the major theories and concepts which have been generated by or used within gerontology and in other disciplines, to explain elderly people's life experiences. At the end of this section, three ideologies present in gerontology are I discussed. Next, the concept of environmental extension in its spatial and psychological modes, is discussed including three aspects: the actual, the possible, and the desired environmental extension. Then, the link between the elderly and transportation is made. The final section of Chapter 1 presents the Research Questions.;In Chapter 2--"Methodology" the researcher outlines the information gathering techniques used in the research and the procedures for the analysis and discussion. In this chapter four profiles of participants' testimonies in which they articulate how different mediators are integrated with their environmental extension activities, are presented.;Chapter 3--"Findings" presents the interconnections of the mediators and participants' spatial and psychological extension through the use of testimonies.;In Chapter 4, findings are discussed, conclusions are reached, and the research questions are answered. The central argument of Chapter 4 is that participants' desires to be involved in activities and to visit places demonstrate that they do not want to "disengage" from the socio-physical environment.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
