Presentations of the Elderly in Textbooks on Marriage and Family.

Stolley, Kathy Shepherd; Hill, Archie E.

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ERIC Number: EJ541924

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Publication Date: 1996

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Presentations of the Elderly in Textbooks on Marriage and Family.

Stolley, Kathy Shepherd; Hill, Archie E.

Teaching Sociology, v24 n1 p34-45 Jan 1996

Discovers a very stereotypical representation of the elderly in marriage and family textbooks. Reveals that the aged receive limited amounts of coverage, often are often separated from other family issues and events, and generally are associated with specific "elderly" topics in these texts. (MJP)

Descriptors: Age Discrimination, Consciousness Raising, Content Analysis, Cultural Images, Family (Sociological Unit), Higher Education, Marriage, Older Adults, Social Bias, Social Sciences, Sociology, Stereotypes, Textbook Bias, Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation, Textbooks, Undergraduate Study

Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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Audience: Researchers

Language: English

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