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Gettin' Some Age on Me: Social Organization of Older People in a Rural American Community Hardcover - 1989

by John Van Willigen


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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

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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.

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  • Title Gettin' Some Age on Me: Social Organization of Older People in a Rural American Community
  • Author John Van Willigen
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
  • Date 1989-02-21
  • ISBN 9780813116488 / 0813116481
  • Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.87 x 5.84 x 0.77 in (22.53 x 14.83 x 1.96 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: Kentucky
  • Library of Congress subjects Rural elderly - Kentucky, Older people - Social networks - Kentucky
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 88028818
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.260

About the author

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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