Social structures and aging individuals: continuing challenges : [edited proceedings of a conference held at the Pennsylvania State University, October 9 - 10, 2006]
In: Social structure series
The waters we swim : everyday social processes, macro-structural realities and human aging / Dale Dannefer -- To act or not to act : using statistics or feelings to reduce disease risk morbidity and mortality / Howard Leventhal, Tamara J. Musumeci, and Elaine A. Leventhal -- Religion, health, and health behavior / Neal Krause -- Commentary : assessing health behaviors across individuals, situations, and time / David Almeida, Susan T. Charles, and Shevaun D. Neupert -- From static to dynamic : the on-going dialectic about human development / Nilam Ram ... [et al.] -- Those who have, get : social structure, environmental complexity, intellectual functioning and self-directed orientations in the elderly / Carmi Schooler and Leslie J. Caplan -- Commentary : personality, emotion, and cognition : some comments / Freda Blanchard-Fields -- Technology as multiplier effect for an aging work force / Neil Charness -- No career for you : is that a good or bad thing? / David Ekerdt -- Commentary : new employment structures : varieties of impact on aging workers / James L. Farr and Alexander R. Schwall -- Aging, history, and the course of life : social structures and cultural -- Meanings / Thomas Cole, W. Andrew Achenbaum, and Nathan Carlin -- Cultural transformations, history and the experiences of aging / Christine Fry -- The aging experience, social change, and television / Rukmalie Jayakody -- Religion and intergenerational transmission over time / Vern L. Bengtson... [et al.] -- How have social institutional forces shaped family structure and well-being over the past 50 years / Mark D. Hayward -- Commentary : marital trends and familial influences : toward developing an understanding of context / Chalandra Bryant and Michelle Bragg