Handbook of Sociology of Aging

Richard A. Settersten Jr. is a professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences at Oregon State University. Jacqueline L. Angel (Ph.D. Rutgers 1989) is currently a Professor of Public Affairs and Sociology and Faculty Affiliate at the Population Research Center and LBJ School Center for Health and Social Policy at the University of Texas at Austin.

• Preface.- Scholarly Foreward.- Policy Foreward.- I. HISTORICAL TRENDS IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF AGING.-Trends in the Sociology of Aging: Thirty Year Observations.-  II.THEORIES AND METHODS IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF AGING.- Theoretical Perspectives on the Sociology of Aging.- Aging Individuals, Families, and Societies: Micro-Meso-Macro Linkages in the Life Course.- Widening the View: Capturing “Unobserved” Heterogeneity in Studies of Age and the Life Course.-  III.SOCIAL DIVERSITY AND INEQUALITIES OF AGING.- Gender and Aging.-Race, Ethnicity, and Aging.- Immigration, Aging, and Health in the United States.-Global Aging.- Diversity and Family Relations in an Aging Society.- IV. SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS AND AGING.- Social Relations and Aging.- Intergenerational Relations in Later-Life Families.- The Midlife Financial Squeeze: Intergenerational Transfers of Financial Resources within Aging Families.- The Demography of Unions Among Older Americans, 1980–Present: A Family Change Approach.- V.SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND AGING.- Rethinking Retirement.- Learning and Aging.- The Midlife Years: Human Capital and Job Mobility.- The Changing Worlds of Family and Work.- Developing Age-Friendly Communities: New Approaches to Growing Old in Urban Environments.- VI.       ECONOMIES, GOVERNMENT, AND AGING.- Crises and Old Age Politics.-Welfare States: Protecting or Risking Old Age.-Volunteering in Later Life: From Disengagement to Civic Engagement.- Business and Aging: The Boomer Effect on Consumers and Marketing.- Consumption and Aging.-VII. SOCIAL VULNERABILITIES AND AGING.-Planning for Old Age.- Responses of the Long-Term Care System to Recent Natural Disasters.-Elder Mistreatment.- Crime, the Law, and Aging.-Aging Veterans: Needs and Provisions.- VIII. PUBLIC HEALTH AND AGING.- Health and Aging: Early Origins, Persistent Inequalities?.- Mental Health and Aging: A Life-Course Perspective.- Aging with HIV/AIDS.- Obesity: A Sociological Examination.- Religious Involvement, Health Status, and Mortality Risk.- IX. CARE ARRANGEMENTS AND AGING.- Civil Society and Eldercare in Post-Traditional Society.- Population Aging, Health Systems, and Equity: Shared Challenges for the United States and Canada.-Long-Term Care: Tradition and Innovation.- Caregiving and the Life Course: Connecting the Personal and the Public.- X. SOCIOLOGICAL LIVES: PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON THE SOCIOLOGY OF AGING.- Gerontology with a “J”: Personal Reflections on Theory-Building in the Sociology of Aging.- The Sociology of Aging and the Life Course Comes of Age.- Long Time Coming, Not Here Yet: The Possibilities of the Social in Age and Life Course Studies.- Looking Back: My Half Century as a Sociologist of Aging and Society.- As Time Goes By: Gerontological and Life Course Musings.- Studying Age Across Borders.- Living the Gendered Life Course in Time and Space.- XI. THE FUTURE OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF AGING- Sociology of Aging in the Decade Ahead.- About the Editors and Contributors.