Social Structure and Aging Series
Social Structure and Aging: Psychological Processes
1st Edition
Edited
By K. Warner Schaie, Carmi Schooler
October 17, 2016
This volume presents a systematic examination of the impact of social structures on individual behaviors and on their development in adulthood and old age. These papers and responses attempt to improve the reciprocal relationship between changes in social macro- and micro-structures and the process...
Aging, Health Behaviors, and Health Outcomes
1st Edition
Edited
By K. Warner Schaie, Dan Blazer, James S. House, James A. House
September 06, 2016
This volume is the fourth in a series designed to facilitate inter-disciplinary communication between scientists concerned with the description of societal phenomena and those investigating adult development. As such, it contains a compilation of papers presented at an annual conference held at the...
Age Structuring in Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By David I. Kertzer, K. Warner Schaie
September 02, 2016
This volume studies age as a basis for social organization by uniting research from the social science disciplines while implementing both cross-cultural and historical perspectives. The contributors, a distinguished interdisciplinary group of scholars, advance our understanding of age structuring ...
Self Directedness: Cause and Effects Throughout the Life Course
1st Edition
Edited
By Judith Rodin, Carmi Schooler, K. Warner Schaie
April 27, 2016
This book, the third in a series on the life course, has significance in today's world of research, professional practice, and public policy because it symbolizes the gradual reemergence of power in the social sciences. Focusing on "self-directedness and efficacy" over the life course, this text ...