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This text question the boundaries between self and society, change and stability. It includes classic treatments by Karl Mannheim and Norman Ryder, and develops fresh theoretical concepts to explore aging as a social process. The six contributions link the theoretical concepts to issues of research design and analysis, and provides insights into how we can understand fundamental social processes such as human development and socialization, the formation of public opinion and political identity, and the shaping of collective action and group behaviour.

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Melissa Hardy is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Demography at Penn State University in University Park. She is an alumna of Albright College and Indiana University in Bloomington. Her research focused on aging and the life course, retirement and age-stratified transitions, self-assessed health, and political attitudes using longitudinal data and a range of quantitative techniques.  Her published work appears in American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, and Demography. She enjoyed teaching social statistics and general linear models to graduate and undergraduates students, using everyday experiences to help them understand the meaning of statistical concepts.

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