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Presentations of the Elderly in Textbooks on Marriage and Family
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Keywords

Aging
Gerontology
Family
Marriage
Textbooks

How to Cite

Stolley, Kathy, and Archie Hill. 2010. “Presentations of the Elderly in Textbooks on Marriage and Family”. TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, June. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/presentations-of-the-elderly-in-textbooks-on.

Abstract

The presentation of the elderly in undergraduate textbooks on marriage and family is studied by a content analysis of 27 texts published from 1988 to 1993, The aged receive limited amounts of coverage, are often separated from other family issues and events, and are generally associated with specific "elderly" topics in these texts. Photographs depict...

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Subject Area(s):
Visual Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Essay
Class Level(s):
College 300
Class Size(s):
Any

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