Aging and the Life Course
The life course perspective provides a framework for understanding processes of inequality and change both within individuals and across various levels of society. Faculty working in this area study aging over the life course as a social process with attention to the intersections of individual lives, social structures, and social change. Faculty research includes examinations of family ties and aging; work, family and policy; trajectories of socioeconomic status and health from early life through old age; and the extended process of identity formation across the life course.
Research Stories
Connected Seniors Current Projects
- Gender, Interpersonal Risk and Childbearing
Roderic Beaujottopicsgender, fertility
Completed Projects
- Family Transformation and Social Cohesion
Roderic Beaujottopicsfamily structure, social cohesion
Faculty experts in Aging and the Life Course
Patrick Denice, Assistant Professor
- Social inequality, social stratification, and mobility;
- Life course;
- Education;
- Labour markets;
- Union and non-union influences on wages
SSC 5407
519-661-2111 x85725
pdenice@uwo.ca
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Anders Holm, Professor
- Quantitative methods;
- Socioeconomic status over the lifecourse;
- Social stratification;
- Inter-generational mobility;
- Sociology of health
SSC 5327
519-661-2111 x 85515
aholm@uwo.ca
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Rachel Margolis, Associate Professor
Undergraduate Chair, Department of Sociology
- Demography;
- Social inequality;
- Family change;
- Aging
SSC 5326
519-661-2111 x82850
rachel.margolis@uwo.ca
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Kim Shuey, Associate Professor
Acting Graduate Chair, Department of Sociology
- Health and disability across the life course;
- Transmission of health across generations;
- Precarious employment, work and health;
- Environmental sociology.
SSC 5426
519-661-2111 x85135
kshuey@uwo.ca
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Andrea Willson, Associate Professor
- Social inequality over the life course;
- Aging and the life course;
- Health effects of socioeconomic status across generations;
- Quantitative research
SSC 5423
519-661-2111 x85132
willson@uwo.ca
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Anna Zajacova, Associate Professor
- Social epidemiology;
- Health inequalities;
- Demography;
- Lifecourse and aging;
- Ethnicity;
- Quantitative methods
