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RC11 Sociology of Aging
Sociologie du vieillissement
Sociología del envejecimiento
President: Sara Arber, University of Surrey, GB
Coordinator of the programme: Andreas Hoff, University of Oxford, GB.Local Host: Feliciano
Villar
Subject: “Diversity of aging: discourse and debates
Organizer: Andreas Hoff, Oxford Institute of Ageing, Oxford University, UK
Friday, September 5, 15:30-17:30
Session 01: Age, cohort and generation:
conceptual and empirical approaches
Chair: Paul Higgs, UCL and James Nazroo,
Manchester University, UK
Location: UB-FPGH-308
Session ID: RC11_01
Authors and Papers:
Chris Gilleard (University College London
(UCL), UK)
Theorising cohort and generation in empirical
research
Paul Higgs (University College London (UCL),
UK)
Theorising cohort and generation in empirical
research
James Nazroo (Manchester University, UK)
Suggestions of cohort and period influences on
the experience of ageing: evidence from the
English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)
Anne McMunn (UCL, UK)
Using gender to examine cohort and period
Simone Scherger (Manchester, UK)
Generation, cohort and the persistence of
class inequalities into older age
James Nazroo (Manchester, UK)
Generation, cohort and the persistence of
class inequalities into older age
Friday, September 5, 15:30-17:30
Session 02: Gendered experience of ageing
Chair: Sara Arber, University of Surrey, UK
Location: UB-FPGH-311
Session ID: RC11_02
Authors and Papers:
Lorna Warren (University of Sheffield, UK)
‘You’ve got to get to where we are’: Older Women’s
Lives, Voices and Welfare Citizenship
Joe Cook (University of Leeds, UK)
‘You’ve got to get to where we are’: Older Women’s
Lives, Voices and Welfare Citizenship
Anthony James Brown (University of Western
Sydney, Australia)
Invisible Men - Older Men and Diversity
Adrian Lee (University of York, UK)
What Research into England’s Older Gay Male
Identities, Welfare Needs and Service-use Experiences
can Suggest for the Planning of Inclusive
and Effective Older People’s Services
Allison Kirkman (Victoria University of Wellington,
New Zealand)
Social inclusion, ageing and ‘pink power’
Ingrid Arnet Connidis (University of Western
Ontario, Canada)
Same-sex relationships and the consequences
of changing legislation for negotiating family
relationships
Friday, September 5, 18:00-20:00
Session 03: An international perspective and
comparison of national intergenerational programmes
Chair: Allan Hatton-Yeo, Beth Johnson Foundation,
UK
Location: UB-FPGH-308
Session ID: RC11_03
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