[Aging and circles of acquaintances: a heritage from the traditional village]

Some aspects of one's personal circle of acquaintances, one's private village, are described: its changes in the life course, its social norms and its registration, and the differences with the traditional collective village community and the kinship system. One of its most important perspectives is abandoning loneliness. Possibly rather than cultural generation differences the dimension of the modern private village embodies a sociological past, which patterns present ageing, in the realm of non-familial network.