This chapter reviews the recent literature on social support and health and its relation to
preexisting research and theory in the areas of social networks and social integration. We …

Research on life transitions highlights the normative and nonnormative changes that
individuals experience over time. During the past two decades, life course perspectives …

This article argues that the trends normally linked with the second demographic transition
(SDT) may be reversed as the gender revolution enters its second half by including men …

Recent scientific work has established both a theoretical basis and strong empirical
evidence for a causal impact of social relationships on health. Prospective studies, which …

抄録< jats: p> In the long eighteenth century, new consumer aspirations combined with a
new industrious behavior to fundamentally alter the material cultures of northwest Europe …

The measurement of age, age structuring, and the life course has become more problematic
as the study of human lives has moved toward more detailed analyses and explanations. As …

The demographic transition and its related effects of population growth, fertility decline and
ageing populations are fraught with controversy. When discussed in relation to the global …

Winner of the 2022 Textbook & Academic Authors Association′ s The McGuffey Longevity
Award Aging: Concepts and Controversies is structured to encourage a style of teaching and …

Contrary to the view of some academics that the family in America is not declining but just
changing, the thesis of this article is that family decline since 1960 has been extraordinarily …

Although much recent research has explored the division of household labor between
husbands and wives, few studies have examined housework patterns across marital …