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Chapter 25 - Sociology of Aging

from Part VI - The Sociology of the Life Course

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2017

By
Elizabeth W. Markson  and
Peter J. Stein
Edited by
Kathleen Odell Korgen
Kathleen Odell Korgen
Affiliation:
William Paterson University, New Jersey
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The Cambridge Handbook of Sociology
Specialty and Interdisciplinary Studies
 , pp. 246 - 255
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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