Ethel Shanas
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ethel Shanas was an American scholar in the fields of Sociology of medicine and gerontology. Biography Shanas graduated in 1949 at the University of Chicago with a dissertation on the social aspects of aging, under the mentorship of Ernest Burgess and Robert J. Havighurst. She worked at the University of Chicago until 1965, as a member of the university’s Committee on Human Development, a lecturer in Sociology and a staff member of the National Opinion Research Center.
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- Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences. (1978) (1613)
- The family as a social support system in old age. (1979) (670)
- The Robert W. Kleemeier Award lecture. Social myth as hypothesis: the case of the family relations of old people. (1979) (394)
- Old People in Three Industrial Societies (1969) (308)
- Older People and Their Families: The New Pioneers. (1980) (144)
- The health of older people : a social survey (1962) (113)
- Social Structure and the Family: Generational Relations. (1966) (104)
- Family, bureaucracy, and the elderly (1978) (77)
- Family-Kin Networks and Aging in Cross-Cultural Perspective. (1973) (75)
- Health of older people. (1971) (72)
- Family Help Patterns and Social Class in Three Countries (1967) (41)
- The American Journal of Sociology Through Fifty Years (1945) (41)
- Family responsibility and the health of older people. (1960) (30)
- Measuring the home health needs of the aged in five countries. (1971) (28)
- Health status of older people: cross-national implications. (1974) (27)
- Zero Population Growth and the Family Life of Old People (1974) (25)
- Social structure and the family : generational relations (1967) (22)
- The Scope and Method of Sociology. (1953) (20)
- The personal adjustment of recipients of old age assistance. (1950) (20)
- Health and adjustment in retirement. (1970) (19)
- Living Arrangements of Older People in the United States (1961) (18)
- The American Soldier: Vol. I: Adjustment During Army Life.Samuel A. StoufferThe American Soldier: Vol. II: Combat and Its Aftermath.Samuel A. Stouffer (1950) (16)
- Recreation and Delinquency (1942) (14)
- Experiments on Mass Communication. ("Studies in Social Psychology in World War II," Vol. III.). Carl I. Hovland , Arthur A. Lumsdaine , Fred D. Sheffield (1951) (13)
- Operational Definitions Operationally Defined (1943) (11)
- The Sociology of Aging and the Aged (1971) (10)
- A note on restriction of life space: attitudes of age cohorts. (1968) (9)
- Hayflick-NIH Settlement. (1982) (7)
- Old parents and middle-aged children: the four- and five-generation family. (1984) (7)
- Aging in contemporary society (1970) (7)
- Gerontology and the social and behavioral sciences: where do we go from here? (1975) (6)
- How sick are older people? (1960) (5)
- Economic Differentials in the Probability of Insanity (1939) (5)
- Some Observations on Cross-National Surveys of Aging (1963) (5)
- Retirement and the professional worker. (1953) (4)
- Recreation and Delinquency: A Study of Five Selected Chicago Communities.@@@Youth in the CCC. (1943) (4)
- Facts versus Stereotypes: The Cornell Study of Occupational Retirement (1958) (4)
- Report on a Conference (1951) (3)
- A Preventive Mental Hygiene Course for Older Adults (1953) (3)
- Health and nutrition. (1972) (3)
- Handbook of Social Gerontology: Societal Aspects of Aging (1961) (3)
- Research Methods in Social Relations. Vol. I: Basic Processes.Marie Jahoda , Morton Deutsch , Stuart W. CookResearch Methods in Social Relations. Vol. II: Selected Techniques.Marie Jahoda , Morton Deutsch , Stuart W. Cook (1952) (3)
- Methodological problems in cross-national studies in aging (1968) (2)
- Aging and life space in Poland and the United States. (1970) (2)
- What's New in Old Age? (1970) (2)
- Descriptive and Sampling Statistics.John Gray Peatman (1948) (2)
- Health care and health services for the aged. (1965) (2)
- Retirement: A New Outlook for the Individual (1959) (2)
- SOCIOLOGICAL FACTORS OF AGING SIGNIFICANT TO THE CLINICIAN * (1969) (2)
- Comparative Socio-medical Studies of the Elderly (1984) (2)
- : Five Hundred over Sixty: A Community Survey on Aging (1957) (2)
- Retirement in four professions. (1953) (2)
- Social research on aging and the aged: where are we now? (1981) (2)
- Title Page / Index / Introduction (1968) (1)
- Reveille for Radicals.Saul D. Alinsky (1946) (1)
- Problems in the Organization and Design of Cross-National Studies in Aging (1968) (1)
- Social Adjustment in Old Age.Otto Pollak (1949) (1)
- : Our Needy Aged: A California Study of a National Problem (1955) (1)
- A Critique of Dodd's Dimensions of Society (1942) (1)
- Financial resources of the aging : reported resources available to those aged 65 and over in meeting medical costs up to $500 (1959) (1)
- The aged report on their health problems. (1968) (1)
- The Aged in American Society (1958) (0)
- Adventures of the Mind.Arturo Castiglioni (1946) (0)
- Book Review:A Mathematical Theory of Human Relations. Nicholas Rashevsky (1949) (0)
- Book Review:Social Research: A Study in Methods of Gathering Data. George A. Lundberg (1942) (0)
- Book Review:Maternity in Great Britain: A Survey of Social and Economic Aspects of Pregnancy and Childbirth. Joint Committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians, Gynaecologists, Population Investigation Committee (1950) (0)
- Letter to the Editor (1943) (0)
- Family, Bureaucracy, and the Elderly.@@@Old Age in European Society.@@@Readings in Aging and Death: Contemporary Perspectives. (1978) (0)
- VII. The Health of Older People: The Reports of Responsible Individuals (1962) (0)
- APPENDIX A: Definitions and Explanations (1962) (0)
- Book Review:Bureau of the Census Manual of Tabular Presentation. Bruce L. Jenkinson (1950) (0)
- Living through the Older Years.Clark Tibbitts (1950) (0)
- Book Review:The Family Life of Old People: An Inquiry in East London. Peter Townsend (1959) (0)
- Advanced Theory of Statistics.Maurice C. Kendall (1945) (0)
- Interviewing for NORC.National Opinion Research Center (1946) (0)
- Physical Science and Human Values: A Symposium. (1948) (0)
- Hayflick-NIH Settlement (1982) (0)
- And Keep Your Powder Dry.Margaret Mead (1943) (0)
- Book Review:Language of Politics: Studies in Quantitative Semantics. Harold D. Lasswell, Nathan Leites (1950) (0)
- Book Review:A Chapter in Population Sampling. Sampling Staff Bureau of the Census (1947) (0)
- V. The Living Arrangements of Older People (1962) (0)
- Minutes of the 20th Annual Meeting of the Council of the Gerontological Society and of the Members of the Corporation (1965) (0)
- Book Review:Growing Old: The Process of Disengagement. Elaine Cumming, William E. Henry (1962) (0)
- The "very sick" in the older population. (1960) (0)
- Kaiser Wakes the Doctors.Paul De Kruif (1943) (0)
- VIII. The Public Views the Needs of Older People (1962) (0)
- Ensuring Medical Care for the Aged (1960) (0)
- Book Review:Methods in Social Research. William J. Goode, Paul K. Hatt (1954) (0)
- Book Review:Old Age in a Changing Society. Zena Smith Blau (1975) (0)
- Family Structure and Contact Battery 1968-1975 (1982) (0)
- A Message to the Membership (1974) (0)
- Book Review:Drawing Room Conversion: A Sociological Account of the Oxford Group Movement. Allan W. Eister (1950) (0)
- Factors Affecting Care of the Patient: Clients, Government Policy, Role of the Family and Social Attitudes * (1973) (0)
- Measurement and Prediction.Samuel A. Stouffer (1952) (0)
- Educational Values in Population Studies (1947) (0)
- Man and His Years.Federal Security Agency (1952) (0)
- The Social Psychology of Aging.@@@Aging and the Aged.@@@Late Adulthood: Perspectives on Human Development.@@@Aging in America; Readings in Social Gerontology.@@@Aging in Contemporary Society. (1978) (0)
- IV. Employment, Income, and Meeting the Costs of Medical Care (1962) (0)
- Book Review:Health and the Family: A Medical-Sociological Analysis. Charles O. Crawford (1972) (0)
- British Research on the Health and Welfare of Elderly People (1984) (0)
- Book Review:A Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers. Max Planck (1951) (0)
- The status of health care for the elderly. (1980) (0)
- II. Reported Illness, the Use of Medical Care, and Payments for Care Among Older People (1962) (0)
- The Social and Biological Challenge of Our Aging Population.New York Academy of MedicinePlanning the Older Years.Wilma Donahue , Clark Tibbitts (1951) (0)
- Index of Illness 1962 (1982) (0)
- APPENDIX C: Reports and Papers Based on the Survey (1962) (0)
- Minutes of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society, November 13, 1965 (1965) (0)
- Medical Care for the Elderly in Other Western Countries: Lessons for the United States A National Policy Perspective (1986) (0)
- VI. Older People and Their Families (1962) (0)
- Book Review:The Older Population of the United States. Henry D. Sheldon, Clark Tibbitts (1960) (0)
- Public Image of Mental Health Services. Jack Elinson , Elena Padilla , Marvin E. Perkins (1967) (0)
- Book Review:Aging and Modernization. Donald O. Cowgill, Lowell D. Holmes (1973) (0)
- III. The Very Sick Among Older People (1962) (0)
- Appendix D: Interview Questionnaires (1962) (0)
- Book Review:The Economic Status of the Aged. Peter O. Steiner, Robert Dorfman (1958) (0)
- Social Structure and the Family: Generational Relations (1966) (0)
- Risking old age in America: by Richard J. Margolis. Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 1990. 202 pp., $36.50 (cloth). (1991) (0)
- Out of My Later Years.Albert Einstein (1951) (0)
- Growing Pains: The Sociology of Aging.@@@Aging: Biology and Behavior.@@@Aging: Social Change.@@@Aging: Stability and Change in the Family. (1983) (0)
- IX. Conclusions: The Older Person in the United States (1962) (0)
- Book Review:Opinion Conflict and School Support. Frederick T. Rope (1942) (0)
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