Discussion: what does it all mean?
Offsetting the current tendency toward "life-course reductionism," insights from these papers illustrate a broader ("aging and society") paradigm--one that includes the life-course perspective, but also complements it with deeper understanding of the dialectical interplay between changes in lives and changes in the surrounding social structures.
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Program on Age and Structural Change, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
D000375:Aging; D003710:Demography; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011593:Psychology, Social; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013315:Stress, Psychological