Brian K. Gran has been invited to serve on the National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists (NCLS), a joint committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the American Bar Association (ABA).
The NCLS is a joint effort on the part of the AAAS and the...
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Dale Dannefer, Jessica Kelley-Moore and Wenxuan (Cherry) Huang. 2015. “Opening the Social: Sociological Imagination in Life Course Studies.” Pp. 87-110 in Handbook of the Life Course, Vol. II. Edited by Michael Shanahan, Jeylan Mortimer and Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson. New York: Springer.
Once again, CWRU's Department of Sociology had a strong presence at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, held in Orlando (11/18-23). Overall 6 faculty and 13 students participated this year.
Agency, the State and Active Ageing: Inequality and Precariousness in the Construction of Old Age
Christopher Phillipson; Dale Dannefer; Linda Burton
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Mary Erdmans was invited to present a paper at the Chicago Catholic Immigrants Conference: The Poles on November 13-14, 2015. Her paper “Polish Immigrant Communities in Chicago, 1970-2000” focused on the formation of new immigrant communities in the suburban metropolitan area of Chicago and the challenges Catholic parishes faced incorporating Polish-speaking parishioners.
Dale Dannefer. 2015. “Right in Front of Us: Taking Everyday Life Seriously in the Study of Human Development. Research and Human Development [Special Issue].12(3-4): 209-216
Dale Dannefer was elected to the Executive Council of the Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (SLLS) for a 3 year term.