Aging around the world
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Authors
Cowgill, Donald O. (Donald Olen), 1911-
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Issue Date
1986
Type
Book
Keywords
Older people--Cross-cultural studies , Aging--Cross-cultural studies , Social status--Cross-cultural studies
Citation
Donald O. Cowgill, Aging around the world (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Pub. Co., 1986), xii, 227 p.
Abstract
Table of 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.
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Publisher
Wadsworth Pub. Co.,