This is the first book in anthropology to provide strategies for the collection of qualitative and comparative data about aging, representing state-of-the-art techniques including cross-cultural and life-cycle studies of aging. Covering ethnic communities in the United States as well as other countries, this book is an indispensable resource and critical guide to research methods for professionals and students of gerontology, anthropology, and the social sciences in general.
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Participant observation is not often placed first in an inventory of research methods. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Academic Press, Journal of Gerontology, Cape Croker, University of Chicago Press, Van Nostrand, Les Floralies, United States, Gerontological Society, Beverly Hills, Free Press, Measuring Morale, San Francisco, Cambridge University Press, Growing Old, Third World, Department of Sociology, Medical Care, The Hague, Verna Johnston, American Anthropologist, American Sociological Review, Chronic Illness, Oxford University Press, The Sickness Impact Profile New!
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Participant observation is not often placed first in an inventory of research methods. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Academic Press, Journal of Gerontology, Cape Croker, University of Chicago Press, Van Nostrand, Les Floralies, United States, Gerontological Society, Beverly Hills, Free Press, Measuring Morale, San Francisco, Cambridge University Press, Growing Old, Third World, Department of Sociology, Medical Care, The Hague, Verna Johnston, American Anthropologist, American Sociological Review, Chronic Illness, Oxford University Press, The Sickness Impact Profile New!
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- Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, Fifth Edition (Handbooks of Aging) by Robert H. Binstock on 6 pages
- Dimensions: Aging Culture and Health by Christine Fry on 5 pages
- Participant Observation by James P. Spradley on 4 pages
- Genealogical Demography (Population and social structure) by B. Dyke on page 74, page 76, and page 102
- Culture and Aging (Growing old) by Margaret Clark on page 18, page 47, and page 254
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- The Culture of Long Term Care: Nursing Home Ethnography by J Neil Henderson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Old Age in the Roman World: A Cultural and Social History (Ancient Society and History) by Tim G. Parkin in Back Matter
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