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 2011-2012
Chair: Richard A. Settersten Jr., Oregon State University
Chair-Elect: Mark D. Hayward, University of Texas at Austin
Past Chair: Dale Dannefer, Case Western Reserve 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)
Debra Street, State University of New York at Buffalo ('12)
Debra Umberson, University of Texas ('12)
Teresa Cooney, University of Missouri - Columbia ('13)
Student Representatives:
Georgiana Bostean, University of California, Irvine ('12)
Michael Jason McFarland, University of Texas at Austin ('13)
Newsletter Editor: Jennifer Hamil-Luker, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Website Editor: Dale Dannefer, Case Western Reserve University
Listserv Coordinator: David Warner, Case Western Reserve 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://www2.asanet.org/sectionaginglifecourse/index.htm