Barriers to voluntary organization membership: An examination of race and cohort differences

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 1998, Pages

  Miner, Sonia ^a   Tolnay, Stewart ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; ORGANIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031687664     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/53B.5.S241     Document Type: Article

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