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Vern L. Bengtson

Expert on family relations and the sociology of aging

Holder of the AARP-University Chair in Gerontology
Director, division of social and behavioral sciences, USC Andrus Gerontology Center
Professor of gerontology and sociology, USC Davis School of Gerontology

Contact at: (213) 740-8242 or bengtson@usc.edu


Expertise:
  • changes in family relationships between generations
  • family sociology and life course studies
  • family relations
  • the generation gap
  • grandparenthood
  • survey research methods and quantitative analysis
  • cross-cultural research
  • social psychology
  • theories and sociology of aging
  • healthy aging
  • long-term changes in family relationships
Additional Information:
  • Author of The Social Psychology of Aging (1973)
  • Editor of Adulthood and Aging: Research on Continuities and Discontinuities (1996)
  • Co-editor of Adult Intergenerational Relations: Effects of Social Change (1995), Intergenerational Linkages: Hidden Connections in American Society (1994), The Changing Contract across Generations (1993) and The Course of Later Life: Research and Reflections (1989)
  • Recipient, Robert W. Kleemeier Award (1996)
  • President, Gerontological Society of America (1990)

More:
For more information go to:

http://www.usc.edu/dept/gero/faculty/bengtson.shtml