Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Why This Book?: Foreword for First Volume in Social Structure Series -- INTRODUCTORY OVERVIEW -- 1 The Waters We Swim: Everyday Social Processes, Macrostructural Realities, and Human Aging -- PART I: HEALTH AND WELL-BEING -- 2 To Act or Not to Act: Using Statistics or Feelings to Reduce Disease Risk, Morbidity, and Mortality -- 3 Religion, Health, and Health Behavior -- 4 Commentary: Assessing Health Behaviors Across Individuals, Situations, and Time -- PART II: PERSONALITY AND COGNITION -- 5 From Static to Dynamic: The Ongoing Dialectic About Human Development -- 6 Those Who Have, Get: Social Structure, Environmental Complexity, Intellectual Functioning, and Self-Directed Orientations in the Elderly -- 7 Commentary: Personality, Emotion, and Cognition -- PART III: TECHNOLOGY AND THE WORKPLACE -- 8 Technology as Multiplier Effect for an Aging Workforce -- 9 No Career for You: Is That a Good or Bad Thing? -- 10 Commentary: New Employment Structures-Varieties of Impact on Aging Workers -- PART IV: SOCIOCULTURAL CHANGE AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT -- 11 Aging, History, and the Course of Life: Social Structures and Cultural Meanings -- 12 Cultural Transformations, History, and the Experiences of Aging -- 13 The Aging Experience, Social Change, and Television -- PART V: FAMILIAL AND SOCIETAL CONTEXT -- 14 Religion and Intergenerational Transmission Over Time -- 15 How Have Social Institutional Forces Shaped Family Structure and Well-Being Over the Past 50 Years? -- 16 Commentary: Marital Trends and Familial Influences-Toward Developing an Understanding of Context -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Author Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U.

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