This section 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.
Bylaws
Annual Report (2023)
Award Recipient History
Section Council
Chair: Miles G. Taylor, Florida State University
Chair-Elect: Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson, Washington State University
Past Chair: Stefanie Möllborn, University of Colorado-Boulder
Section Secretary/Treasurer: Mieke Beth Thomeer, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Andre Christie-Mizell, Vanderbilt University
Catherine García, Syracuse University
Marc Garcia, Syracuse University
Christine Mair, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Kagan A. Mellencamp, Bowling Green State University (Student Representative)
Anna Muraco, Loyola Marymount University
Ayrlia Welch, University at Buffalo (Student Representative)
Emma Zang, Yale University
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