Rural Elderly Household Life-Course Transitions, 1900 and 1980 Compared

Arcury, Thomas A.

doi:10.1177/036319908601100104

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“…kixge County is a pseudonym for a small, completely rural outer Bluegrass county in northeastern Kentucky. The characteristics of the Ridge County population and economy during the 20th century have been described in detail elsewhere (Arcury, 1984(Arcury, ,1986van Willigen et al, 1985;van Willigen, 1989).…”

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Birth seasonality in a Rural U.S. county, 1911–1979

Arcury

Williams

1990

American J Hum Biol

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This paper examines birth seasonality in a rural U.S. county over the period 1911-1979. Data were taken from the complete series of birth certificates for the county population during this period. Birth seasonality was expected to reflect seasonal variation in agricultural workload earlier in the century (pre-1940) but to disappear as this population became more integrated into the wage labor market from 1940 to 1979. The pattern of birth seasonality in each decade from the 1910s to the 1970s by week, month, and season was analyzed with descriptive and analytic techniques. However, no birth seasonality was found for any decade during this century. The absence of a seasonal fertility pattern remained when all births were examined, and when such factors as ethnicity (only births to white mothers), occupation (only births to women married to farmers), and stillbirths were controlled singly and in combination. The implications of the lack of birth seasonality in this population are discussed in terms of the understanding of the causes of birth seasonality and the place of birth seasonality in human adaptation.

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Birth seasonality in a Rural U.S. county, 1911–1979

Arcury

Williams

1990

American J Hum Biol

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Personal networks and sacred texts: Social aging in Delhi, India

Willigen

Kedia

Chadha

1995

J Cross-Cultural Gerontol

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Social aging of residents of a middle-class neighborhood of Delhi, India is examined from a personal network perspective. The analysis reported here addresses the size and composition of personal networks of a random sample of men and women 55 years and older. Analysis of the entire sample indicates no age related reduction in network size among people 74 years and below. Among older persons in age strata 75 years old and above there is a substantial reduction in network size. In addition to being influenced by a person's age, network size is also influenced by gender, health status, and household resource control but not by the material style of life of the household and household type. The results of this analysis are interpreted in terms of Hindu sacred texts that describe the ideal life course and comparison with related studies from India and the United States.

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In search of ‘intimacy at a distance’: Family history from the perspective of elderly women

Gratton

Haber²

1993

Journal of Aging Studies

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Rural Elderly Household Life-Course Transitions, 1900 and 1980 Compared

Cited by 6 publications

References 16 publications

Birth seasonality in a Rural U.S. county, 1911–1979

Birth seasonality in a Rural U.S. county, 1911–1979

Personal networks and sacred texts: Social aging in Delhi, India

In search of ‘intimacy at a distance’: Family history from the perspective of elderly women

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