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Later life : the social psychology of aging / edited by Victor W. Marshall.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gerontology.
- Old age--Social aspects.
- Old age.
- Older people--Psychology.
- Older people.
- Physical Description:
- 352 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Beverly Hills, Calif. : Sage, [1986]
- Contents:
- Dominant and emerging paradigms in the social psychology of aging / Victor W. Marshall
- The subjective construction of self and society / Carol D. Ryff
- Socialization in old age
- a Meadian perspective / Neena Chappell and Harold L. Orbach
- Some contributions of symbolic interaction to the study of growing old / Don Spence
- A sociological perspective on aging and dying / Victor Marshall
- The old person as stranger / James J. Dowd
- Social networks and social support / Barry Wellman and Alan Hall
- Friendships in old age / Sarah H. Matthews
- The world we forgot / Martin Kohli
- Comparative perspectives on the microsociology of aging / Vern L. Bengtson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographies and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0803925476
- 0803925484
- OCLC:
- 12418858
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