Age and the Reach of Sociological Imagination

Combining foundational principles of critical social science with recent breakthroughs in research across disciplines ranging from biology to economics, this book offers a scientifically and humanly expanded landscape for apprehending the life course.

Dale Dannefer is the Selah Chamberlain Professor of Sociology and Chair, Department of Sociology, Case Western Reserve University.

1. Sociological Imagination and Human Aging 2. Sociomatics: The Social Structuring Of Human Development and Aging 3. Agency, Intentionality and World-Construction 4. The Social Organization of Human Development and Age, I: Historical And Cultural Variations 5. The Social Organization of Development and Age, II: Intracohort Variability And Cumulative Dis/Advantage 6. Cumulative Dis/ Advantage as A Cohort Phenomenon: Levels, Processes and Paradigmatic Alternatives 7. Sociosomatics And the Life Course: The Social Organizaiton Of Human Physiology and Gene Regulation 8. Situating Knowledge Production: The Sociology of Scientific Work in Studying Age and the Life Course 9. Bringing Ideology Back In - Science as A Mechanism of Naturaliation 10. Age, Sociological Imagination and Human Possibility