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  Section on Aging and the Life Course  
     
 

Mission Statement

Sociology of Aging and the Life Course provides an analytical framework for understanding the interplay between human lives and changing social structures. Its mission is to examine the interdependence between (a) aging over the life course as a social process and (b) societies and groups as stratified by age, with succession of cohorts as the link connecting the two. This special field of age draws on sociology as a whole and contributes to it through reformulation of traditional emphases on process and change, on the multiple interdependent levels of the system, and on the multidimensionality of sociological concerns as they touch on related aspects of other disciplines. The field is concerned with both basic sociological research on age and its implications for public policy and professional practice.

Section Officers, 2008-2009

Chair: Eliza K. Pavalko, Indiana University

Chair-Elect: Peter Uhlenberg, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Past Chair: Duane F. Alwin, Pennsylvania State University

Secretary-Treasurer: Anne E. Barrett, Florida State University

Council (year term ends):
Cheryl Elman ('09), The University of Akron
Richard A. Settersten ('09), Oregon State University
Jessica A. Kelley-Moore ('10), Case Western Reserve University
Victor W. Marshall ('10), University of North Carolina  - Chapel Hill
Dennis Hogan ('11), Brown University
Ross Macmillan ('11), University of Minnesota

Student Representatives (year term ends):
Jori Alyssa Sechrist ('09), Purdue University
Jennifer Karas Montez ('10), University of Texas-Austin

Newsletter Editor: Jennifer Hamil-Luker, University of North Carolina-Greensboro

Website Editor: Eliza Pavalko, Indiana University

Listserv Coordinator: Linda Wray, The Pennsylvania State University

Section Website

The section maintains a very comprehensive homepage with many items of interest, such as online issues of the newsletter; news for graduate students, research groups, and award information. The URL of the homepage is:

http://www.pop.psu.edu/asasalc/index.htm

  
     
 
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