Gettin' Some Age on Me: Social Organization of Older People in a Rural American Community by Van Willigen, John

Gettin' Some Age on Me: Social Organization of Older People in a Rural American Community (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813116488)

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Gettin' Some Age on Me: Social Organization of Older People in a Rural American Community by Van Willigen, John

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

$20.00
Gettin' Some Age on Me: Social Organization of Older People in a Rural American Community by Van Willigen, John

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

$20.00
Format: Hardcover
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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. Gettin' Some Age on Me grew out of a stud

Author: John Van Willigen
ISBN-10: 0813116481
ISBN-13: 9780813116488
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 02/21/1989
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.87h x 5.84w x 0.77d
By John Van Willigen
By John Van Willigen
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John van Willigen is professor of anthropology at the University of Kentucky and the author of many books, including Tobacco Culture: Farming Kentucky's Burley Belt and Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms, 1920-1950.

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