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1 Introduction and Approach
Pages 9-13

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... The dramatic growth in the percentage of the U.S. population that is older than the traditional retirement age of 65, for example, is placing an increasing strain on the federal budget that will almost certainly lead to changes in the Social Security and Medicare programs, such as increases in the age of eligibility and perhaps changes in benefit levels (see National Research Council, 2012b; National Research Council and National Academy of Public Administration, 2010)
From page 10...
... The chapters in Part I refer, whenever possible, to the papers that appear in Part II. Following this introduction, Chapter 2 lays out the diverse approaches that have been taken to the study of aging and presents a conceptual model of aging that can be used to situate and relate research on aging conducted in sociology and throughout the social sciences, including transdisciplinary work.
From page 11...
... Topics of attention include cognitive function, health, disability, financial, and emotional wellbeing, labor force participation, living arrangements, social ties and transfers, perceptions of aging and older persons, and public resource allocation. The study of aging also occurs at many different levels of analysis, from macro structures and systems, to the meso level of social institutions, the micro level of individual relationships and behaviors, and the even tighter focus at the level of physiology and biology (see Settersten and Angel, 2011)
From page 12...
... In the typology formulated by Rosenfield (1992) , multidisciplinary work entails researchers from separate disciplines who work independently on the same issue from within their distinct disciplines, whereas interdisciplinary research involves scholars from different disciplines contributing distinct disciplinary perspectives to shared work on a common problem.
From page 13...
... suggests that some reviewers deem theoretical articles inappropriate for publication in scientific journals, although scientific hypotheses are typically generated from theories or previous research. In the sociology of aging, another factor constraining the development of theory may be the close institutional relationship with gerontology.


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