| | | Why This Book?: Foreword for First Volume in Social Structure Series by Matilda White Riley | | |
| | | Introductory Overview | | 1 |
| 1 | | The Waters We Swim: Everyday Social Processes, Macrostructural Realities, and Human Aging by Dale Dannefer | | 3 |
| Pt. I | | Health and Well-Being | | 23 |
| 2 | | To Act or Not to Act: Using Statistics or Feelings to Reduce Disease Risk, Morbidity, and Mortality by Howard Leventhal and Tamara J. Musumeci and Elaine A. Leventhal | | 25 |
| 3 | | Religion, Health, and Health Behavior by Neal Krause | | 73 |
| 4 | | Commentary: Assessing Health Behaviors Across Individuals, Situations, and Time by David M. Almeida and Susan Turk Charles and Shevaun D. Neupert | | 97 |
| Pt. II | | Personality and Cognition | | 113 |
| 5 | | From Static to Dynamic: The Ongoing Dialectic About Human Development by Nilam Ram and Sylvia Morelli and Casey Lindberg and Laura L. Carstensen | | 115 |
| 6 | | Those Who Have, Get: Social Structure, Environmental Complexity, Intellectual Functioning, and Self-Directed Orientations in the Elderly by Carmi Schooler and Leslie J. Caplan | | 131 |
| 7 | | Commentary: Personality, Emotion, and Cognition by Fredda Blanchard-Fields | | 155 |
| Pt. III | | Technology and the Workplace | | 165 |
| 8 | | Technology as Multiplier Effect for an Aging Workforce by Neil Charness | | 167 |
| 9 | | No Career for You: Is That a Good or Bad Thing? by David J. Ekerdt | | 193 |
| 10 | | Commentary: New Employment Structures - Varieties of Impact on Aging Workers by James L. Farr and Alexander R. Schwall | | 213 |
| Pt. IV | | Sociocultural Change and Historical Context | | 231 |
| 11 | | Aging, History, and the Course of Life: Social Structures and Cultural Meanings by Thomas Cole and W. Andrew Achenbaum and Nathan Carlin | | 233 |
| 12 | | Cultural Transformations, History, and the Experiences of Aging by Christine L. Fry | | 255 |
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