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QUESTION #2 DESCRIBE KAHN AND ANTONUCCI'S CONVOY MODEL OF SOCIAL SUPPORT NETWORKS. DISCUSS THE SOCIA SPPORT NETWORKS OF ADULTS. IDENTIFY CHANGES THAT OCCUR IN OLD AGE.

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The Convoy Model (Kahn & Antonucci, 1980) offers a life course perspective that complements other models, but is unique in conceptualizing the individual's social network as an evolving hierarchy of relations varying in perceived closeness and importance to the individual. In their seminal paper on the Convoy Model, Kahn and Antonucci [1980] infused a life span developmental dimension into traditional social network analysis. Consistent with a dynamic-contextualist framework, they observed that the structural and functional properties ...