New Directions in the Sociology of Aging (2013) / Chapter Skim
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Sociology is an integrative science, concerning itself with how social systems work and how various social institutions are interconnected, with how micro and macro social processes are linked, with how attitudes and values are formed, with how they differ among individuals and groups, and with how realities are socially constructed. In recent years, social demography, social epidemiology, and sociology have been called on to contribute to the study of aging and identify promising new research directions in these subfields.1 At the request of the National Institute on Aging's (NIA's)
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And the study of aging has fostered collaboration across the traditional disciplines -- economics, biology, psychology, sociology -- and the emerging fields, such as social genomics, computational sociology, biodemography, and social neuroscience. For example, in social epidemiology researchers originating in the disciplines sociology, epidemiology, physiology, and medicine have collaborated to make significant gains in understanding how factors in the social environment (such as socioeconomic position, income distribution, social networks, social support, social capital, community cohesion, work
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The National Institute on Aging should engage researchers in the development of a conceptual model, or a number of conceptual models, for social processes in aging over the life course in multiple dimensions.
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The National Institute on Aging should manage its research program in a manner that promotes implementation of models and metrics in the areas of: • E ncouraging conceptualization of family relationships and ex changes, including behavior, expectations, plans and attitudes, and to develop measures of key family concepts, because the family is a fundamentally important social context for aging. • E ncouraging conceptualization of characteristics of contexts and local areas through development of new measures, expanded links to existing data, and ongoing incorporation of new technolo gies, such as global positioning systems, smartphones, and area mapping.
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The panel documents institutional and administrative impediments, disciplinary boundaries set by professions, disciplinary preferences exhibited by funding agencies, and, finally, the disciplinary silos within which the research community has been accustomed to operate and which have served as barriers to developing new and promising ways of studying important issues in aging. Nevertheless, there are growing examples of transdisciplinary bridges through institutional and administrative changes and the conscious efforts of journals, societies, and funding agencies to break down the walls between the disciplines.
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The National Institute on Aging should encour age universities and research organizations to intentionally promote transdisciplinary research by: • R educing institutional barriers to transdisciplinary research and interdisciplinary research teams. • D eveloping structures to encourage input and participation from outside ongoing projects in such a way as to bring together, in a transdisciplinary research environment, researchers from several institutions, and representing multiple approaches.
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