Social Relations and Social Support

Abstract

This chapter reviews the recent evolution of research and its implications for practice in the areas of social relations and social support. It organizes the Marjorie Cantor's enduring legacies, the recognition that individual and group differences exist and are critically important to the study of social relations. Developmental psychologists considered it an extension of the burgeoning field of attachment that focused primarily on the mother-child relationship. The chapter examines age differences and closeness patterns of social relations among older people. It also examines differences in the ages of the network members. The chapter turns next to network composition, that is, whether there are age or closeness differences in who is mentioned as a network member. The empirical evidence describing social networks is presented in some detail because it is so clearly consistent with Cantor's compensatory hierarchy of social support.

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