Externally-Resident Daughters, Social Capital, and Support for the Elderly in Rural Tibet

Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-22

  Childs, Geoff ^a   Goldstein, Melvyn C ^b   Wangdui, Puchung ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Tibet Academy of Social Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Aging; Gender; Modernization; Social capital; Social networks; Social support; Tibet

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CHINA; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INCOME; INTERVIEW; MALE; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; EMPLOYMENT; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PARENTS; RURAL POPULATION; SMALL BUSINESS; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIBET; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 78651292633     PISSN: 01693816     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10823-010-9135-5     Document Type: Article

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