Gettin' Some Age on Me: Social Organization of Older People in a Rural American Community

by John van Willigen

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813116481
• ISBN13: 9780813116488
• Release Date: February 1989
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.9"