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American Sociological Association: Section on Aging and the Life Course
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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 2012-2013
Chair: Mark D. Hayward, University of Texas at Austin
Chair-Elect: Ellen Idler, Emory University
Past Chair: Richard A. Settersten Jr., Oregon State University
Secretary-Treasurer: Janet M. Wilmoth, Syracuse University ('13)Council:
Michael J. Shanahan, Univ of North Carolina-Chapel Hill ('14)
Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson, Washington State University ('13)
Pamela Herd, University of Wisconsin, Madison ('14)
Teresa Cooney, University of Missouri - Columbia ('13)
James M. Raymo, University of Wisconsin-Madison ('15)
Yang Yang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ('15)
Student Representatives:
Michael Jason McFarland, Princeton University ('13)
Lindsay R. Wilkinson, Purdue University ('14)
Newsletter Editor: Kristen Schultz Lee, University at Buffalo
Website Editor: Mark D. Hayward, University of Texas at Austin
Listserv Coordinator: David Warner, University of Nebraska
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://www2.asanet.org/sectionaginglifecourse/