Peter Townsend

The Family Life of Old People

An Inquiry in East London

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1957, The Family Life of Old People opens with the question: Are old people isolated from their families? Thereafter, the author describes the results of intensive interviews with people of pensionable age in Bethnal Green in East London.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9781032560069
• ISBN-10: 1032560061
• Artikelnr.: 69946091

Autorenporträt

Peter Townsend

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Acknowledgements 1. The Study in Outline 2. Place and People 3.
Home and Family 4. Living near Relatives 5. The Family System of Care 6.
Man and Wife and the Home Economy 7. Sons and Daughters 8. Brothers and
Sisters 9. The Extended Family and the Kinship Network 10. Family and
Community 11. Retirement 12. Poverty 13. Isolation, Loneliness and the Hold
on Life 14. Who Claim State Care? 15. Keeping the Family Together 16.
Conclusion Appendices Index