Research Catalog

Title

Friendships through the life course : oral biographies in old age / Sarah H. Matthews.

Author

Matthews, Sarah H.

Publication

Beverly Hills : Sage Publications, ©1986.

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Details

Description

175 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

• Do patterns of friendship change as people get older? How are the friendships of older people affected by their life histories? This book is based on the oral testimony of 63 elderly people who, in the course of relating their life stories, told of their friendships from childhood to old age.
• Friendships Through the Life Course provides conceptual insight into a neglected field -- the meaning and process of friendship in the context of people's lives. It also demonstrates the importance of looking at individuals, particularly elderly people, within a biographical framework.

Series Statement

Sage library of social research ; v. 161

Uniform Title

Sage library of social research ; v. 161.

Subject

• Interpersonal relations
• Friendship > Research
• Life cycle, Human
• Older people > United States > Interviews
• Sociology > Biographical methods
• Interpersonal Relations
• Friendship > Research
• Interpersonal relations
• Life cycle, Human
• Older people
• Sociology > Biographical methods
• Freundschaft
• Lebenslauf
• Psychologie
• Vriendschap
• Levensloop
• Ouderdom
• Friendship
• Older people > Social networks
• United States

Genre/Form

Interviews

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 165-169.

Contents

Friendships in Biographical Context -- Friendship Styles -- Maintenance and Termination Friendships -- The Significance of Age and Gender to Friendship Through the Life Course -- Friendships in Old Age -- Biography and Friendship?

ISBN

• 0803926413
• 9780803926417
• 0803926421
• 9780803926424

LCCN

85027619

OCLC

• ocm12810206
• 12810206
• SCSB-8794452

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library