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A Descriptive Analysis Of The Social Roles Of Nursing Home Residents, John A. Hermann
A Descriptive Analysis Of The Social Roles Of Nursing Home Residents, John A. Hermann
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In contemporary American society there has been a growing trend toward nursing home residency for the aged. Up until the present there has been almost no attempt on the part of Sociology to study the sociological aspects of the life within such institutions.
A major objective of this study was to descriptively analyze the social life of nursing home residents. In order to do this, role theory was used as a tool for analysis and applied to the methods of unstructured observation and informal interviewing. The points of analysis were: role enactment, role expectations, and self-role congruency.
The research was …