The Correlates of Loneliness

Author(s): K. D. M. Snell

DOI: 10.2174/9781681080703116010003

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Modern Loneliness in Historical Perspective

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Abstract

SHS investigation development is considered from the geographical and historical viewpoint. 3 stages are described. Within Stage 1 the work was carried out in the Department of the Institute of Chemical Physics in Chernogolovka where the scientific discovery had been made. At Stage 2 the interest to SHS arose in different cities and towns of the former USSR. Within Stage 3 SHS entered the international scene. Now SHS processes and products are being studied in more than 50 countries.

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This chapter discusses the potential for a history of loneliness. It opens up historical handling of loneliness as a theme, pointing to the issues of health, coping strategies, theories of change, locational questions, and issues concerning the family and historical demography. It assesses how lone-living influences analysis of loneliness, and considers in this connection the marked growth of sole living in Western societies.

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Ageing, Aloneness, Individualism, Isolation, Loneliness, Nuclear family, Singletons, Solitaries, The elderly, Welfare.

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