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Aging around the world

Title
Aging around the world / Donald O. Cowgill.
Author
Cowgill, Donald O. (Donald Olen), 1911-
Publication
Belmont, Calif. : Wadsworth Pub. Co., ©1986.

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Description
xii, 227 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Older people > Cross-cultural studies
  • Aging > Cross-cultural studies
  • Social status > Cross-cultural studies
  • Aging
  • Older people
  • Social status
  • Alterssoziologie
  • Veroudering (demografie)
Genre/Form
Cross-cultural studies
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 201-220.
Contents
Aging and the aged around the world -- A comparative demography of aging -- Value systems and aging -- Kinship systems and family roles -- Economic systems and economic roles of the aged -- Political roles of the aged -- Religious and educational roles of the aged -- Theories of aging and types of societies.
ISBN
  • 0534051669
  • 9780534051662
LCCN
85007174
OCLC
  • ocm11918500
  • 11918500
  • SCSB-634503
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library