About the Conference
Over the past twenty years we have examined a number of broad aspects of social structures with regard to their influence on individual aging processes, such as cognition, personality, and personal well-being, in order to understand and explain linking processes. The 2006 conference will review what we currently know about the broad relationship between social structures and individual aging. We have invited a number of prominent scientists who have previously served as organizers and/or made significant contributions to the conference series. These speakers will review both the accomplishments and omissions of the series, as a fitting capstone for twenty years of effort and to provide guidelines for future research and theoretical explanations. We have also invited discussants--people who have not been as closely associated with the social structures conference series but have thought about the issues covered in the series--to respond and explore future directions.
The conference program will begin with a conceptual overview of the theoretical relationships between macrosocial structures and their change over time with individual aging processes. The prior nineteen Penn State social structures conferences have been divided into five topical areas, each of which will be evaluated and projected into the future by well-known speakers from two different scientific disciplines.
Intended Audience
This program is appropriate for geropsychologists, geriatricians, geriatric psychiatrists, and health psychologists and sociologists.
Conference Chairs
K. Warner Schaie, Ph.D., Evan Pugh Professor of Human Development and Psychology, Penn State
Ronald P. Abeles, Ph.D., Special Assistant to the Director, Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, National Institutes of Health
Papers
Copies of the papers will not be available at the conference, but Springer Publishing Company will publish expanded versions of the presentations as a monograph.
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