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On the Significance of Age in Sociology
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“Another area of sociological scholarship-life course sociology-also offers insights into how age operates as a system of inequality.”
From Centering Age Inequality: Developing a Sociology-of-Age Framework (2022) · cites this paper as Riley 1987
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“It highlights age as a social category, as indicated by its focus on age, cohort, and generational groups (e.g., Dannefer 2003, Elder 1975, Elder et al. 2003, Riley 1987, Settersten 2017), and while it often fails to draw an explicit link between these categories and age inequality, it nevertheless lays theoretical groundwork by orienting to age as a meaningful dimension of difference.”
From Centering Age Inequality: Developing a Sociology-of-Age Framework (2022) · cites this paper as Riley 1987
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“Institutionally, however, rapid population aging has outpaced the development of formal eld-ercare and mental health services, creating what Riley (1987) terms a structural lag between demographic change and supportive infrastructure.”
Counting Despairs: Women and Ageing in India
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“According to a study about the opinions about various issues, 24 it was revealed that almost 60 percent elderly viewed that their children and grand-children could not spent time with them as they are busy in their mobiles and computers.”
Tan, J., Taddess, B. A., & Mojola, S. A. (2026) · SSM - Population Health · doi:10.1016/j.ssmph.2026.101930
“By incorporating concepts such as age effects (Riley, 1987), period effects (Elder, 1974), and cohort effects (Alwin & McCammon, 2003; Ryder, 1965), we were able to incorporate a multifaceted, conceptual framework to explain health disparities as a dynamic biopsychosocial system (Engel, 1977;…”
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“Riley (1987) argues that due to exposure to different socio-historical conditions, people in different cohorts age in unique ways.”
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Tan, H.-H., Lee, Y.-C., Chen, Y., & Chiang, T. (2025) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0327191
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Niska, M., & Nikander, P. (2021) · doi:10.5964/jspp.6447
“This difference can be taken as proof of the structural and cultural lag between generations (Riley, 1987), which consequently, manifests itself also as a discursive lag.”
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AN ASSESSMENT OF THE CHALLENGES OF AGING ON CONTEMPORARY HUMAN SOCIETY: A NIGERIAN STUDY
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“The result is that “human resources in the oldest – and also the youngest – strata are underutilized and excess burdens of care are imposed upon the strata in the middle years” (Riley, 1987).”
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- Authors
- Riley, M. W.
- Corresponding author
- Riley, Matilda White
- Venue
- American Sociological Review
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1987-02
- Volume
- 52
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1
- ISSN
- 0003-1224 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1969819482
- Cited by
- 424
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 28 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 13 · 2016: 12 · 2015: 15 · 2014: 22 · 2013: 14 · 2012: 16
- FWCI
- 13.66
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Sociological Review (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
- Social Sciences › Life-span and Life-course Studies › Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues
- Keywords
- age, aging, age differences, age groups
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