Section on Aging and the Life Course | American Sociological Association

The Section on Aging and the Life Course Mentoring Dinner and Program will be held Saturday, August 8, 2009, 6 to 8 p.m. at Johnny Foley's Irish House. Tickets must be reserved by August 3. Please see our Mentoring Dinner page for complete details of the dinner and program.

Section on Aging and the Life Course Sessions at the 2009 ASA Meeting

Date Posted: July 1, 2009

Please see the Preliminary Program for Section on Aging and the Life Course sessions at the 2009 ASA Meeting.

Nominate a Colleague for One of the SALC Awards! - Deadlines March 1, 2009

Date Posted: November 17, 2008

Please visit our awards page for information about SALC's three awards: the Matilda White Riley Distinguished Scholar Award; the Outstanding Publication Award; and the Graduate Student Paper Award. Nomination deadlines and a list of the 2007 award winners are also available on this page.

SALC Passes the 600 Mark

Date Posted: October 22, 2008

Through the efforts of our Membership Committee (Diane Brown, Chair), as of September 30, our section membership reached 603, which means we will get an extra session at next year's meeting! Many thanks to all of you who recruited new members and we look forward to welcoming them to our section. Our additional session will be designed to the milestones and new directions in research on aging and the life course to help us celebrate the 30th anniversary of our section. Details on our other sessions and other newsletter information will be arriving in your mailboxes soon.

New SALC Newsletter Editor!

Date Posted: July 25, 2008

Renee Beard's term as newsletter editor is coming to a close and we welcome Jenifer Hamil-Luker as our new newsletter editor. Please submit any upcoming newsletter items to Jenifer via email at jenifer_hamilluker@uncg.edu or by regular mail to:

Department of Sociology
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
337 Graham Building, PO Box 26170
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170

Many thanks to Renee for her hard work as newsletter editor for the past three years!

SALC Mentoring Dinner and Program

Date Posted: June 30, 2008

The Committee on Mentoring (co-chaired by Victor Marshall and Miles Taylor) announces the annual SALC Mentoring Dinner will be held:

Friday, August 1, 7:30-10pm
Vinny T's of Boston
867 Boylston Street
Boston MA 02116

There will be a cash bar at 7:30, and dinner is at 8. A short program honoring past chairs of the section will be held during the evening.

To reserve a ticket, email victor_marshall@unc.edu with the number of tickets and category of ticket required.

To pay for your ticket(s), either send a check, made out to "SALC American Sociological Association," to Victor Marshall, UNC Institute on Aging, 720 MLK Jr. Blvd., Chapel Hill NC 27599-1030, OR bring your check to the ASA. Reserved tickets can be picked up at the dinner or earlier, at the conference, and from Miles Taylor or Victor Marshall (look for them in SALC sessions and at the reception).

Tickets are $15 for students, $25 for faculty and $50 for guests.

ASA's Member-Get-A-Member Campaign

Date Posted: June 24, 2008

Message from Diane Brown, Membership Chair

Dear SALC members,

Section members are encouraged to participate in ASA's Member-Get-A-Member campaign and specifically to enlist new members to our Section: Encourage your colleagues and students to join SALC!

The 2008 ASA Member-Get-A-Member campaign ends July 15. Let's make this year a record-breaking one! ASA membership is on a calendar year basis. This special offer is limited to 2008 members and 2008 new memberships (renewed memberships are not eligible). Grand prize winner will be notified by August 1, 2008.

Information on the ASA campaign is available on ASA's website.

SALC 2008 Election Results

Date Posted: June 20, 2008

Congratulations to the winners of our recent SALC election of officers, whose terms begin following the 2008 Boston meetings.

Chair-elect: Peter Uhlenberg, University of North Carolina
Council member: Dennis Hogan, Brown University
Council member: Ross Macmillan, University of Minnesota
Student representative: Jennifer Karas Montez, University of Texas-Austin

The chair-elect is a member of Council for three years--a year each as chair-elect, chair and past-chair. Council members serve for three years, and the student representative to council serves a two-year term.

The section appreciates all those who were willing to stand for election.

Surveying Opinions on Possible Section Publications

Date Posted: June 20, 2008

The Section's Ad hoc Committee on Publications has tried several methods over the last year to gauge interest in the types of aging / life course publication outlets that Section members might like to see. We greatly appreciate the feedback we have received so far and would like a bit more before the annual ASA meetings in Boston. So, to make the most effective use of the remaining time, we developed a short online survey (about 5 minutes). The survey provides an opportunity for you to articulate your use of--and potential need for--a wide array of Section activities as well. Here is a link to the survey, which will be open from June 15th to July 15th:

Click Here to take survey

Thank you for your cooperation. The results will be tallied for the committee report and submitted to Council prior to the annual meeting. Please feel free to contact Cheryl Elman, Ad hoc Committee chair: cheryl2@uakron.edu, if you have any questions.

SALC Extends the Submission Deadline for Graduate Student Award Nominations

Date Posted: April 7, 2008

The 2008 Graduate Study Award Committee announces an extension of the deadline for nominations to May 15, 2008. Questions and/or nominations should be sent to the committee chair: Melissa Hardy, Distinguished Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Gerontology Center, 118 Henderson, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa, 16802. E-mail: mah38@psu.edu.

SALC Extends the Submission Deadline for Outstanding Publication Award Nominations

Date Posted: January 18, 2008

The new Outstanding Publication Award Committee announces an extension of the deadline for nominations to March 1, 2008. Questions and/or nominations should be sent to Ellen Idler, Rutgers University (idler@sociology.rutgers.edu).

The ASA Governance and Sections Office Announces the Creation of Two New Sections-in-Formation

Date Posted: January 18, 2008

At the 2007 ASA meetings in New York, ASA Council approved the formation of two new sections of interest to aging and life course researchers: one on Human Rights, and one on Disability and Society. See the December issue of Footnotes for more information.

New ASA Topic Forum on Aging and the Life Course

Date Posted: December, 2007

The ASA has launched a new web-based discussion forum, with both "general" areas of discussion (ASA business, journals, etc), as well special topic forums. In October, Mike Murphy announced the initation of these new discussion forums. Mike will be the moderator of the topic forum on Aging and the Life Course. Open discussion and posting is encouraged; postings are not pre-approved but will be screened by the moderator. Job listings are not allowed and users must agree to the ASA Code of Conduct when posting or replying in these forums. Learn how to register by visiting http://members.asanet.org/Forums/view_forum.php?id=13.

December Message from the Chair

Date Posted: December, 2007

One of the areas I promised myself and others that I would work on during my year as section chair falls under the category of opening up more "lines of communication" among section members. I plan to devote some space to this topic in the Winter, 2008 Newsletter. For now, consider the following document, titled "Six Ways of Communicating."

Express Your Views on SALC Publication Issues

Date Posted: December, 2007

Within the first several months of 2008, a key topic of discussion among the membership of SALC will be about the section's publication options. The Ad Hoc Committee on Publications is gathering information and member's views on publication matters. There are several ways to voice your ideas about this matter, including the SALC discussion listserv, the ASA Topic Forum, or by communicating directly with the members of the Publications Committee. See the following document, titled "Publication Options."

New Research Group on "Age and Consumption"

Date Posted: December, 2007

The Section on Aging and the Life Course sponsors several Research Groups that function as interest groups and informal networks within the Section. There are plans to form a new Research Group on Age and Consumption in 2008. The collective welcomes scholars (a) with an interest in age and all phases of the consumption cycle: markets, production, acquisition, possession, and disposal; (b) who study all manner of commodities and goods, such as housing, financial services, leisure and travel, fitness, and self-care, but also a host of other consumer items; (c) who focus on consumption from the perspective of the enterprise, the consumer, or both; and (d) who theorize about the intersection of life course, identity, and consumption.

Whether you are a Section member or not, student or faculty, the organizer, David Ekerdt, would welcome a note of inquiry. If there is sufficient interest, the Research Group could have its first meeting at the ASA meeting in Boston, in conjunction with the Aging and Life Course section's Roundtable session on August 1, 2008. Possible presentations at that session would be eligible for listing in the ASA meeting program. Please direct inquiries and expressions of interest to David Ekerdt at the University of Kansas (dekerdt@ku.edu).

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