Societal dynamics in personal networks

The SAGE Handbook of Social Gerontology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 215-225

  van Tilburg, Theo ^a   Thomése, Fleur ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781446200933.n16     Document Type: Chapter

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