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Peer reviewedSettersten, Richard A., Jr. – Human Development, 1997
Outlines emerging debates on salience of age in the life course. Notes study examining adults' perceptions of the relevance of age for life-course transitions related to family, education and work, or health and death: age was considered most salient in the family sphere; and was more salient for men than for women and for nonwhites than for…
Descriptors: Adults, Age, Attitudes, Behavior Standards
