TY  - BOOK
AU  - Van Willigen,John
TI  - Gettin' some age on me: social organization of older people in a rural American community 
SN  - 9780813159478
AV  - HQ1064.U6 K485 2015 
U1  - 305.2/6/09769 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Older people
KW  - Social networks
KW  - Kentucky
KW  - Rural elderly
KW  - Personnes âgées
KW  - Réseaux sociaux
KW  - Personnes âgées en milieu rural
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Discrimination & Race Relations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Minority Studies
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface: Growing Old in Rural America; 1. Age and Social Organization; 2. Social Ecology of Ridge County, Kentucky; 3. Collecting Data; 4. Farm, Family, and Homeplace; 5. The Networks; 6. Network Exchange; 7. Old Friends and Perfect Strangers; Appendix: Network Profile Instructions and Schedule; References Cited; Index
N2  - 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 study of more than 130 older people in a rural Kentucky county. They were interviewed concerning their re
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