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Gettin' some age on me : social organization of older people in a rural American community / John van Willigen.
LIBRA HQ1064.U6 K485 1989
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van Willigen, John.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rural older people--Kentucky.
- Rural older people.
- Older people--Social networks--Kentucky.
- Older people.
- Older people--Social networks.
- Kentucky.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 188 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, [1989]
- Summary:
- The social life of older rural Americans is made up of relationships formed through kinship, their neighborhoods, and the organizations to which they belong. These social institutions are shaped by the ways people use them, and therefore change through time. In this precedent-setting study, John van Willigen uses the concept of social network to investigate life-course changes in the relationships of older people within the context of community history.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages [168]-182.
- ISBN:
- 0813116481
- OCLC:
- 18520529
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