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Annual review of gerontology & geriatrics. Volume 24, Focus on intergenerational relations across time and place / Merril Silverstein, volume editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Annual review of gerontology & geriatrics ; 24
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Geriatrics.
- Gerontology.
- Aging.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (317 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Springer, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume examines the importance of time and place, as applied to aging families. In the first section, chapters focus on the temporal dimension of intergenerational relations using frameworks from human development, sociology, social history, and social psychology. The second section focuses on the social ecology of intergenerational relations in terms of the national contexts within which families are embedded. The contributors demonstrate how the social, cultural, historical, and institutional forces that orient older and younger family members toward each other in both structured and ad
- Contents:
- Contents; Contributors; Forthcoming and Previous Volumes in the Series; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Section 1 Intergenerational Relations Across Time; Section 2 Intergenerational Relations Across Place; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-44565-4
- 9786613445650
- 0-8261-9797-3
- OCLC:
- 437125009
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