Aging around the world

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Cowgill, Donald O. (Donald Olen), 1911-
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1986
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Older people--Cross-cultural studies , Aging--Cross-cultural studies , Social status--Cross-cultural studies
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Donald O. Cowgill, Aging around the world (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Pub. Co., 1986), xii, 227 p.
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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.
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Wadsworth Pub. Co.,
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