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Angela M O'Rand, Dean of Social Sciences and Professor
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Angela M O'Rand
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Short Description of Research
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Dean of Social Sciences and Professor
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277B Soc-Psych |
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919-660-5629 |
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(919) 668-2729 |
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Stratification/Mobility,
Life Course Studies,
Population Aging,
Social Organization of Science
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| My major research interests focus on patterns of inequality across the life span, with a special interest in the temporal diversity of life transitions and their consequences for later life. Over twenty eight years I have examined workplace policies related to wage and benefit structures and the impact of workers' educational, work and family histories on wage and fringe benefit outcomes. The changing employment relationship and the re-organization of retirement institutions (especially pensions) have been a central concern of my research. Most recently, I have turned to the cumulative impact of economic adversity on midlife health risks, such as heart attack. This research has uncovered the persistent effects of childhood adversity on midlife heart attack risk, especially among women. I am expanding this focus over the next 5 years.
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Selected Publications/Recent
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- Hughes, M. E. and A. M. O’Rand, The Lives and Times of the Baby Boom.
(2004), Census 2000 monograph. New York: Russell Sage/Population Reference Bureau.
- O’Rand, A. M. and Hamil-Luker, Jenifer, “Processes of cumulative adversity linking childhood disadvantage toincreased risk of heart attack across the life course.”,
Journal of Gerontology—Social Sciences, vol. 60B (October, 2005),
pp. 117-124.
- Shuey, Kim and O’Rand, A. M., "New risks for workers: Gender, labor markets and pensions.",
Annual Review of Sociology, vol. 30
(2004).
- Elman, Cheryl and O’Rand, A. M., “The race is to the swift: socioeconomic origins, adult education and mid-life economic attainment.”,
American Journal of Sociology, vol. 110 no. 1
(2004).
- O’Rand, A.M., “The future of the life course: Late modernity and life course risks.”,
in Handbook of the Life Course, edited by J. T. Mortimer and M. Shanahan
(2003),
pp. 693-701, New York: Plenum.
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Course Descriptions
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Sociology
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