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.
Dale Dannefer delivered an invited symposium lecture entitled “Opening the Social: Sociological Imagination in Life Course Studies” (co-authored with Jessica Kelley-Moore and Wenxuan “Cherry” Huang) at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (SLLS) in Dublin, Ireland on Tuesday October 20, 2015. The presentation was based on a forthcoming chapter in the Volume II of the Handbook of the Life Course.
CWRU Sociology alum Noah Webster (PhD., 2011) was this year's recipient of the Society for the Study of Human Development’s Early Career Award, presented at the society’s biennial meeting held in Austin, Texas, October 16-18, 2015. This award honors an early career scholar whose work has made a significant...