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Mutual Attraction: Demography and Life-Course Analysis

Author(s) -

P Uhlenberg

Publication year - 1996

Publication title -

the gerontologist

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1758-5341

pISSN - 0016-9013

DOI - 10.1093/geront/36.2.226

Subject(s) - life course approach , cohort , perspective (graphical) , gerontology , cohort effect , successful aging , cohort study , psychology , demography , sociology , developmental psychology , medicine , computer science , pathology , artificial intelligence

Bringing together a life course and demographic perspective provides a useful framework for studying aging. This perspective conceptualizes aging as the dynamic process of cohorts moving through the life course in historical time. Each cohort is embedded in a social structure that regulates how it ages, and the social structure changes as the cohort advances through the life course over time. This view of aging provides a strategy for developing research on such basic questions as: Why is the life course structured the way it is? How, and why, does the experience of aging differ between cohorts? And how, and why, is aging experienced differentially by various segments of a cohort?

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