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1911–2004 United States

Matilda White Riley (née White, April 19, 1911 – November 14, 2004) was an American sociologist, known for her research and writing on sociological aspects of gerontology. She was elected in 1977 a Fellow of the American Associaton for the Advancement of Science, in 1987 a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 1994 a Member of the U.S.

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Parents who believed in the value of "getting ahead" started to apply pressure from the beginning of the school career.

... one seems forced to conclude that a disproportionally large number of the nation's "pockets of poverty" are found in rural-farm areas.

Today's social structures and norms are the vestigial remains of the nineteenth-century, when most people died before their work was finished or their last child had left home. Age 65 was established as the criterion for insurance eligibility in Germany back in the late 1870s—yet age 65 is still used in many countries under today's utterly changed conditions of longevity.

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