Structural Constraints on Friendships in Old Age
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4903543 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zena Smith Blau (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1961 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 429 |
| Publication date | 1961-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2090670 |
| OpenAlex | W2328141197 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 56 |
The effects that widowhood or retirement have on the friendships of older people were found to vary with the prevalence of these changes in status within the age, sex, and class structure in which the individual is located. In those groups where widowhood and retirement are relatively rare either change in status places the individual in a deviant position among his peers, differentiates his interests and experiences from those of his associates, and thereby exerts a detrimental effect on friendships. In those structural contexts, however, where these changes in status are prevalent, it is the still married or employed individual who occupies a deviant position in relation to his peers and whose social life therefore tends to become more restricted
Demographic economics · Developmental psychology · Economics · Sociology · Aging and Gerontology Research · Health disparities and outcomes · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Psychology
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The Association of Social Support and Activities With Health in South Korea
The Family of Later Life
The Single-Parent Family
Remarriage in Old Age
Social Work and the Aging Family
Widowhood Status in the United States
Survivorship and Social Isolation
Assessing Intimacy
Der Partnermarkt und die Gelegenheiten des Kennenlernens
Sociological Approaches to Understanding Age and Aging
Older Women Living in a Continuing Care Retirement Community
The Effect of Schooling on Social Contacts of Urban Women
Social Participation and Social Integration of the Aged
The Effects of Voluntary and Involuntary Residential Mobility on Females and Males
Suicide among the Elderly
Patterns of Social Interaction among Families of Behaviorally Retarded Children
Social Support and Adaptation to Widowhood
Live and/or let die
Sex Differences in Stress, Illness and Coping Resources Among the Nigerian Elderly
Losing An Aged Relative
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Changes in network composition among older people living in inner London and Essex
The significance of work friends in late life
Paradise lost
Women and Aging
A Developmental Exploration of Friendship Functions in Women
Changes in network composition among the very old living in inner London
Structural effects in national parkgoing
The Kinship Network of the Rural Aged
Definitions of Friendship and their Consequences in Old Age
The Significance of Friendship for Women in Later Life
Friendship and Care for Elderly People
Inequalities in Old Age
The timing of major life events
Social and demographic correlates of loneliness in late life
Social support networks and the crisis of bereavement
Vertical Village
Married Women and Depressive Symptoms
Relationships and male and female elders∗
A Function of Friendship
The menopausal queen
Primary Groups in Old Age
Does the Internet matter for strong ties? Bonding social capital, Internet use, and age-based inequality
Primary Group Structures and Their Functions
Disengagement Theory
Old People
The influence of social support on Aids-related grief reaction among gay men
Widowhood and mortality among the elderly
Marital status, delay in seeking treatment and survival from breast cancer
The Soeial Involvement of American Widows
Are Some Relationships more Useful than Others? The Value of Similar Others in the Networks of Recent Widows
The Transition to Grandparenthood
Changes in Support From Confidants, Children, and Friends Following Widowhood
Uniformity and Diversity
Age, gender and daily life
| Unique citing works | 56 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,97 |
| Citation span | 1968 - 2015 (48) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 48 |