531 - Section on Aging and the Life Course Invited Session. Aging and Cohort Replacement as Engines of Social Change in Institutions

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

Matilda White Riley's age stratification perspective first illuminated how the processes of aging, cohort flow, and replacement are fundamental sources of social change. Speakers will examine how the prolonged aging of individuals and waves of unsynchronized cohorts during the 20th century have influenced social institutions such as family, criminal justice, religion, and health care.

Sub Unit

• Section Invited

Session Organizer

• Deborah Carr, State University of New Jersey-Rutgers

Presider

• Deborah Carr, State University of New Jersey-Rutgers

Panelists

• Mark Chaves, Duke University

• Bernice A. Pescosolido, Indiana University

• Robert J. Sampson, Harvard University

• Pamela J. Smock, University of Michigan

Discussant

• Ellen Idler, Emory University