READING LIST revised 1.12.11 for fall 2011 and spring 2012
SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH AND AGING
Health
Aneshensel, Carol S. et al. 1991. “Social Structure, Stress, and Mental Health: Competing
Conceptual and Analytic Models.” American Sociological Review 56:166-78.
Ben-Shlomo, Yoav and Diana Kuh. 2002. “A Life Course Approach to Chronic Disease
Epidemiology: Conceptual Models, Empirical Challenges and Interdisciplinary
Perspectives.” International Journal of Epidemiology 31:285-93.
Boardman, J. D., B. K. Finch, C. G. Ellison, D. R. Williams, and J. S. Jackson. 2001.
“Neighborhood Disadvantage, Stress, and Drug Use Among Adults.” Journal of Health
and Social Behavior 42:151-65.
Burdette, Amy and Terrence Hill. 2008. “An Examination of Processes Linking
Perceived Neighborhood Disorder and Obesity.” Social Science & Medicine 67:38-46.
Bury, Michael. 1982. Chronic Illness as Biographical Disruption. Sociology of Health
and Illness 4:167-182.
Cassel, John. 1976. “The Contribution of the Social Environment to Host Resistance.”
American Journal of Epidemiology 104:107-23.
Charmaz, Kathy. 1983. Loss of self: A fundamental form of suffering in the chronically
ill. Sociology of Health and Illness 5:168-195.
Cobb, Sidney. 1976. “Social Support as a Moderator of Life Stress.” Psychosomatic
Medicine 38(5):300-14.
Cohen, Sheldon, et al. 1997. “Social Ties and Susceptibility to the Common Cold.”
Journal of the American Medical Association 277:1940-44.
Evenson, Ranae J. and Robin W. Simon. 2005. “Clarifying the Relationship between
Parenthood and Depression.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 46:341-58.
Ferraro, Kenneth and Tetyana Shippee. 2009. “Aging and Cumulative Inequality:
How does Inequality get under the Skin?” The Gerontologist 49:333−343.
Freese, Jeremy. 2008. "Genetics and the Social Science Explanation of Individual
Outcomes." American Journal of Sociology 114 Suppl.: S1–S35.
Hill, Terrence D., Lauren M. Kaplan, Michael T. French, and Robert J.
Johnson. 2010. "Victimization in Early Life and Mental Health in
Adulthood: An Examination of the Mediating and Moderating Influences
of Psychosocial Resources." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 51:
48-63.
House, James S. 2001. “Understanding Social Factors and Inequalities in Health: 20th
Century Progress and 21st Century Prospects.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior
43:125-42.
Kaplan, G., M. Haan, R. Wallace. 1999. “Understanding Changing Risk Factor
Associations with Increasing Age in Adults.” Annual Review of Public Health
20:89−108.
Kessler, Ronald C. 2002. “The Categorical versus Dimensional Assessment
Controversy in the Sociology of Mental Illness.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior
43:171-88.
Kessler, Ronald C., Kristen D. Mickelson, and David R. Williams. 1999. “The
Prevalence, Distribution, and Mental Health Correlates of Perceived Discrimination in
the United States.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 40:208-30.
LaVeist, Thomas A. 1996. “Why We Should Continue to Study Race But Do a Better
Job: An Essay on Race, Racism and Health.” Ethnicity and Disease 6:21-29.
LaVeist, Thomas A. 2005. “Disentangling Race and Socioeconomic Status: A Key to
Understanding Health Inequalities.” Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York
Academy of Medicine 82(2):Supplement 3.
Link, Bruce and Jo Phelan. 2001. “Conceptualizing Stigma.” Annual Review of
Sociology 7:363-85.
Marmot, Michael, Carol D. Ryff, Larry L. Bumpass, Martin Shipley, and Nadine F.
Marks. 1997. “Social Inequalities in Health: Next Questions and Converging Evidence.”
Social Science and Medicine 44: 901-10.
Mirowsky, John and Catherine Ross. 2003. Education, Social Status, and Health.
Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter/Transaction.
Pearlin, Leonard I., Morton Lieberman, Elizabeth Menaghan, and Joseph Mullan.
1981. “The Stress Process.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 22:337-56.
Pearlin, Leonard I., Scott Schieman, Elena M. Fazio, and Stephen C. Meersman.
2005. “Stress, Health and the Life Course: Some Conceptual Perspectives.” Journal of
Health and Social Behavior 46(2):205-19.
Phelan, Jo C., Bruce G. Link and Parisa Tehranifar. 2010. "Social
Conditions as Fundamental Causes of Health Inequalities : Theory, Evidence, and Policy
Implications." Journal of Health and Social
Behavior 51: S28-S40.
Rabkin, Judith and Elmer Struening. 1976. “Life Events, Stress and Illness.” Science
194:1013-20.
Reynolds, John R. and Chardie Baird. 2010. "Is There a Downside to
Shooting for the Stars? Unrealized Educational Expectations and
Symptoms of Depression." American Sociological Review 75: 151-172.
Reynolds, John and R. Jay Turner. 2008. “Major Life Events, Their Personal Meaning,
Resolution, and Mental Health Significance.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior
49:223-37.
Rodin, Judith. 1986. “Aging and Health: Effects of the Sense of Control.” Science
233:1271−1276.
Ross, C. E., J. Mirowsky, and S. Pribesh. 2001. “Powerlessness and the Amplification
of Threat: Neighborhood Disadvantage, Disorder, and Mistrust.” American Sociological
Review 66:568-91.
Ross, C. E., J. R. Reynolds, and K. J. Geis. 2000. “The Contingent Meaning of
Neighborhood Stability for Residents’ Psychological Well-Being.” American
Sociological Review 65:581-97.
Ross, Catherine E. and Chia-Ling Wu. 1996. “Education, Age, and the Cumulative
Advantage in Health.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 37:104-20.
Simon, Robin W. 2002. “Revisiting the Relationships among Gender, Marriage, and
Mental Health.” American Journal of Sociology 107:1065-96.
Syme, Leonard and Lisa Berkman. 1976. “Social Class, Susceptibility and Sickness.”
American Journal of Epidemiology 104:1-8.
Taylor, John and R. Jay Turner. 2002. “Perceived Discrimination, Social Stress, and
Depression in the Transition to Adulthood: Racial Contrasts.” Social Psychology
Quarterly 65:213-25.
Thoits, Peggy. 2010. “Stress and Health: Major Findings and Policy Implications
Journal of Health and Social Behavior.” November 51: S41-S53.
Turner, R. Jay and William R. Avison. 2003. “Status Variations in Stress Exposure:
Implications for the Interpretation of Research on Race, Socioeconomic Status, and
Gender.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 44:488-505.
Turner, R. Jay and Donald A. Lloyd. 1995. “Lifetime Traumas and Mental Health: The
Significance of Cumulative Adversity.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 36:36076.
Turner, R. Jay and Donald A. Lloyd. 1999. “The Stress Process and the Social
Distribution of Depression.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 40:374-404.
Ueno, Koji. 2010. “Mental Health Differences Between Young Adults With
and Without Same-Sex Contact: A Simultaneous Examination of Underlying
Mechanisms.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior (forthcoming).
Umberson, Crosnoe, & Reczek. 2010 “Social Relationships and Health Behavior across
the Life Course.” Annual Review of Sociology 36:139-157.
Umberson, Debra et al. 1992. “Widowhood and Depression: Explaining Long-Term
Gender Differences in Vulnerability.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 33:10-24.
Wheaton, Blair. 2001. “The Role of Sociology in the Study of Mental Health . . . and the
Role of Mental Health in the Study of Sociology.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior
42:221-34.
Wickrama, K.A.S., Rand D. Conger, and W. Todd Abraham. 2005. “Early Adversity
and Later Health: The Intergenerational Transmission of Adversity through Mental
Disorder and Physical Illness.” Journals of Gerontology, Series B 60B(Special Issue
II):125-29.
Williams, David and Sternthal. 2010. “Understanding Racial-ethnic Disparities in
Health: Sociological Contributions.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior November
51: S15-S27.
Aging
Angel, Ronald and Jacqueline Angel. (2005). Diversity and aging in the United States.
Chapter 6 in in Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences (6th ed), edited by R.
Binstock and L. George. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Barrett, Anne E. (2003). Socioeconomic status and age identity: The role of dimensions
of health in the subjective construction of age. Journals of Gerontology 58B, S101-S109.
Burton, L.M. (1996). “Age Norms, the Timing of Family Role Transitions, and
Intergenerational Caregiving among Aging African American Women.” The
Gerontologist 2, 199-208
Calasanti, Toni and Kathleen Slevin. (2001). Gender, social inequalities and aging.
Walnut creek, CA: AltaMira Press.
Clark, Robert and Joseph Quinn. 2002. Patterns of work and retirement for a new
century. Generations, Summer: 17-30.
Cornwell, Laumann, & Schumm. 2008. “The Social Connectedness of Older Adults: A
National Profile.” American Sociological Review 73:185-203.
Diamond, Timothy. (1995). Making Gray Gold: Narratives of Nursing Home Care.
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Elwert, Felix and Nicholas Christakis. (2006). Widowhood and Race. American
Sociological Review 71: 16-41.
Ferraro, Kenneth. (2001) Aging and role transitions. Pp. 313-330 in Binstock and
George (eds.) Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, 5th ed. San Diego, CA:
Academic Press.
Foster, Holly, John Hagan, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn. 2008. "Growing Up Fast: Stress
Exposure and Subjective 'Weathering' in Emerging Adulthood." Journal of Health and
Social Behavior 49: 162-177.
George, Linda K. (1999) Social perspectives on the self in later life. Pp. 42-66 in Ryff
and Marshall, The self and society in aging processes. Springer Publishing.
George, Linda. 2010. Still happy after all these years: Research frontiers on subjective
well-being in later life. Journals of Gerontology: Series B: Psychological Sciences and
Social Sciences. 65B: 331-339.
George, Linda. (2001). The Social Psychology of Health. Pp. 217-35 in Handbook of
Aging and the Social Sciences, 5th ed., edited by R. Binstock and L. George. San Diego,
CA: Academic Press.
Geronimus, Arline T. 2001. "Understanding and Eliminating Racial Inequalities in
Women's Health in the United States: The Role of the Weathering Conceptual
Framework." Journal of the American Medical Women's Association 56(4): 133-136.
Geronimus, Arline T., Margaret Hicken, Danya Keene, and John Bound. 2006.
"'Weathering' and Age-Patterns of Allostatic Load Scores among Blacks and Whites in
the United States." American Journal of Public Health 96: 826-833.
Hagestad, Gunhild (2002) Interdependent lives and relationships in changing times: A
life-course view of families and aging, Pp. 135-159 in Invitation to the life course, edited
by R. Settersten. Baywood Publishing.
Holstein, Martha B. and Meredith Minkler. (2003). Self, society, and the “new
gerontology.” The Gerontologist 43: 787-796.
Hao, Yanni. 2008. “Productive Activities and Psychological Well-Being among Older
Adults.” Journal of Gerontology 63B (2):S64-72.
Kelley-Moore, Jessica, John G. Schumacher, Eva Kahana, and Boaz Kahana.
(2006). When do older adults become “disabled”? Social and health antecedents of
perceived disability in a panel study of the oldest old. Journal of Health and Social
Behavior 47: 126-141.
Krause, Neal (2005). Social relationships in late life. Pp. 182-201 in Handbook of Aging
and the Social Sciences (6th ed.) edited by R. Binstock and L. George. San Diego, CA:
Academic Press.
Mayer, Karl U. 2009. “New Directions in Life Course Research”. Annual Review of
Sociology 35: 413-433.
Mirowsky, J (1996). Age and the Gender Gap in Depression. Journal of Health and
Social Behavior 37 362-80.
Moen, Phyllis and Donna Spencer. (2005). Converging divergences in age, gender,
health, and well-being: Strategic selection in the third age. Pp. 129-145 in Handbook of
Aging and the Social Sciences (6th ed.), edited by R. Binstock and L. George. San Diego,
CA: Academic Press.
Moen, Phyllis, Julie Robison, and Donna Dempster-McLain. 1995. “Caregiving and
Women’s Well-Being: A Life Course Approach.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior
36:259-73.
McMullin, Julie and Victor Marshall. 2001. “Ageism, age relations, and garment
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Moen, Phyllis. (2001). The gendered life course. Pp. 179-196 in Binstock, George and
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Academic Press.
Mutchler, Jan, Jeffrey Burr, Michale Massagli, and Amy Pienta. 1999. Work
transitions and health in later life. Journals of Gerontology 54B: S252-61.
O’Rand, Angela. 1996. “The Precious and Precocious: Understanding Cumulative
Disadvantage and Cumulative Advantage Over the Life Course.” The Gerontologist
36:230-38.
O’Rand, Angela. (2005) Stratification and the life course: Life course capital, life course
risks, and social inequality. Pp. 146-201 in Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences
(6th ed.), edited by R. Binstock and L. George. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Pearlin, L.I., Pioli, M and McLaughlin, A. (2001). Caregiving by adult children:
Involvement, role disruption and health. Pp. 238-53 in Handbook of Aging and the Social
Sciences, 5th ed., edited by R. Binstock and L. George. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Pollner, M. and Rosenfeld, D. 2000. “The cross-culturing work of gay and lesbian
elderly.” Advances in Life Course Research 5: 99-117.
Rosenfeld, Dana. 1999. "Identity Work among Lesbian and Gay Elderly." Journal of
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Settersten, Jr., RA. (2005). Linking the two ends of life: What gerontology can learn
from childhood studies. Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 60B(4), S173-180.
Settersten, Richard A. and Karl Ulrich Mayer. (1997). The measurement of age, age
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Stone, Robyn (2005). Emerging issues in long-term care. Chapter 22 in in Handbook of
Aging and the Social Sciences (6th), edited by R. Binstock and L. George. San Diego,
CA: Academic Press.
Street, Debra, Stephanie Burge, Jill Quadagno, and Anne Barrett. 2007. “The
Salience of Social Relationships on Resident Wellbeing in Assisted Living.” Journal of
Gerontology 62B (2):S129-134.
Tiefer, Leonore. 2006. "The Viagra Phenomenon." Sexualities 9:273-294.
Uhlenberg, Peter. 2009. “Children in an aging society.” Journal of Gerontology: Social
Sciences, 64B: 489–496.
Umberson, Debra, Kristi Williams, Daniel A. Powers, Meichu D. Chen, and Anna
M. Campbell. 2005. “As Good as it Gets? A Life Course Perspective on Marital
Quality.” Social Forces 84: 493-511.
Willson, Andrea E., Kim M. Shuey, and Glen H. Elder, Jr. 2007. “Cumulative
Advantage Processes as Mechanisms of Inequality in Life Course Health.” American
Journal of Sociology 112: 1811-1847.
Willson, Andrea and Melissa Hardy. 2002. “Racial disparities in income security for a
cohort of aging American women.” Social Forces 80 (4):1283-1306.
Winterich, Julie A. 2003. "Sex, Menopause, and Culture: Sexual Orientation and the
Meaning of Menopause for Women's Sex Lives." Gender and Society 17:627-642.
Methods
Beckett, Megan. 2000. “Converging Health Inequalities in Later Life-An Artifact of
Mortality Selection?” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 41: 106-119.
Blossfeld, Hans-Peter. 2009. “Comparative Life Course Research: A Cross-National and
Longitudinal Perspective”. Chap. 13 in The Craft of Life Course Research, Glen H. Elder
Jr. and Janet Z. Giele, Eds. The Guilford Press.
Bowling, Ann. 2005. Measuring Health: A Review of Quality of Life Measurement
Scales, 3rd Edition. Maidenhead, Berkshire: Open University Press.
Burton, Linda M., Diane Purvin and Raymond Garrett-Peters. 2009. “Longitudinal
Ethnography: Uncovering Domestic Abuse in Low-Income Women’s Lives”. Chap. 4 in
The Craft of Life Course Research, Glen H. Elder Jr. and Janet Z. Giele, Eds. The
Guilford Press.
Campbell, Richard and Duane Alwin. (1996). Quantitative approaches: Toward and
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the social sciences (4th ed). Edited by Binstock and George. San Diego, CA: Academic
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Cohler, Bertram J. and Andrew Hostetler (2003). “Linking Life Course and Life
Story: Social Change and the Narrative Study of Lives Over Time.” Pp. 555-576 in
Handbook of the Life Course by Mortimer and Shanahan.
Crimmins, Eileen and Teresa Seeman. 2001. “Integrating Biology into Demographic
Research on Health and Aging.” Pp. 9-41 in Cells and Surveys: Should Biological
Measures be Included in Social Science Research?, edited by C. Finch, J. Vaupel, and K.
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American Journal of Public Health 91: 1783-89.
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George, Linda K. 2009. “Conceptualizing and Measuring Trajectories.” Chap. 8 in The
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Press.
Glen, Norval D. (2003) Distinguishing Age, Period, and Cohort Effects, Pp. 465-476 in
Jeylan Mortimer and Michael Shanahan (eds.) Handbook of the Life Course. NY: Kluwer
Academic/Plenum Publishers.
Giele, Janet Z. 2009. “Life Stories to Understand Diversity: Variations by Class, Race,
and Gender” Chap. 11 in The Craft of Life Course Research, Glen H. Elder Jr. and Janet
Z. Giele, Eds. The Guilford Press.
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the Health and Retirement Study and the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study.” Population
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