In 1978, when the Task Panel report to the US President's Commission on Mental Health
emphasized the importance of improving health care and easing the pain of those suffering …

Adults with higher educational attainment live healthier and longer lives compared with their
less educated peers. The disparities are large and widening. We posit that understanding …

Background To limit the rapid spread of COVID‐19, countries have asked their citizens to
stay at home. As a result, demographic and cultural factors related to home life have become …

Many empirical studies throughout the social and biomedical sciences focus only on very
narrow outcomes such as income, or a single specific disease state, or a measure of positive …

In recent decades, the lives of people in their late teens and twenties have changed so
dramatically that a new stage of life has developed. In his provocative work, Jeffrey Jensen …

Family relationships are enduring and consequential for well-being across the life course.
We discuss several types of family relationships—marital, intergenerational, and sibling ties …

This book—arguably the longest longitudinal study of age, crime, and the life course to date—
analyzes data on crime and social development up to age 70 for 500 men who were …

Responding to the growing gap between the sociological ethos and the world we study, the
challenge of public sociology is to engage multiple publics in multiple ways. These public …

Students of the intersection between monetary transfers and intimate social relations face a
choice among three ways of analyzing that relationship: as hostile worlds whose contact …

The extent to which loneliness is a unique risk factor for depressive symptoms was
determined in 2 population-based studies of middle-aged to older adults, and the possible …