Gunhild Hagestad, Adjunct Professor of Sociology at CWRU and an internationally recognized leader in the sociology of age and the life course and related fields, delivered a lecture on January 20 entitled “How does a lifelong life-course researcher respond to a call for personal perspectives on aging?”
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On December 9th six sociology majors presented their Senior Capstone Experience (SOCI 392) research project to the scientific community of Case Western Reserve University. Each project represented an independent product reflective of the emerging intellectual interests and strengths of each student. The topics were drawn from a diversity of...
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...
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.