Susan A Mcdaniel
Biographic Data
| ID | 208785 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan A Mcdaniel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan A |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcdaniel |
| SIGNATURE | MCDANIEL S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lethbridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 76 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 228 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 76 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Covid‐19 in the wake of the great recession in Canada and the U.S: Reflections on social reproduction and life courses
Life Course
Life course is both individual and societal. It is a vibrant and enabling multidisciplinary perspective growing in both insights and popularity. With the vast growth in longitudinal data, life‐course research has a bright future
Networks of Social Support to Manage Poverty: More Changeable than Durable
This article focuses on the durability and changeability of networks of social support to manage poverty from a life-course perspective. Drawing on interviews with members of 20 families, the authors explore networks’ origins and changes, the sources of support, and types of supports exchanged. The authors find networks to manage poverty are more likely to be in flux than durable. Intersecting transitions over life courses and shifting availabili…
Relative prospects of children as they age: Canadians and Americans in midlife in the great recession frame future generations
Family Caregiving for Immigrant Seniors Living With Heart Disease and Stroke: Chinese Canadian Perspective
Heart disease and stroke are two leading causes of death and disability among older Canadians. Family support and caregiving are crucial to the positive functional recovery and psychological well-being of heart disease and stroke survivors. Based on focus groups and individual interviews with Chinese family caregivers in the Canadian province of Ontario, we explored the caregiver's experience, including the challenges, needs, and service gaps in …
An Aging Workforce and the Future Labour Market in Canada
The aging workforce poses perplexing policy challenges, even in Canada, which is demographically young among comparable countries. We ask what the evidence shows about whether there are, or will be, labour or skills shortages as the workforce ages. Highlighting the challenges of measuring labour/skills shortages, we explore peer-reviewed research in the 2000–2013 period. No evidence is found of a national labour shortage in the foreseeable future…
Families by Choice and the Management of Low Income Through Social Supports
Processes of individualization have transformed families in late modernity. Although families may be more opportunistically created, they still face challenges of economic insecurity. In this article, we explore through in-depth qualitative interviews how families by choice manage low income through the instrumental and expressive supports that they give and receive. Two central themes organize our analysis: 'defining/doing family' and 'generatio…
W hy do we still need a census? Views from the age of “truthiness” and the “death of evidence”
This viewpoint reports on a multidisciplinary panel held at the 2012 CAG/Congress meeting that brought together a number of researchers with important expertise on census‐related issues. They were asked to tackle the question: “Why do we still need a census?” Their presentations generated dialogue based on both Canadian and international experiences with recent changes in census data collection approaches. The article presents some cautionary obs…
Income Inequality and Health Trajectories from Mid-Life to Later Life: Are Canadian and American Differences Widening
It is well known that policies and welfare regimes differentially affect the aging process, health trajectories over the life course, and indeed life expectancy. Growing income inequalities are also understood to have health and well-being implications. The focus in this paper is on the effects of growing income inequalities on the health and well-being of those in mid-life as they age in two neighbouring countries, Canada and the United States. …
Global Ageing in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges, Opportunities and Implications
Contents: Preface Global ageing in the 21st century: an introduction, Zachary Zimmer and Susan A, McDaniel The population ageing process in global perspective, FranA ois HA(c)ran Part I Healthy Ageing and Health Care: Ageing, functional disabilities and its gender dimensions: results based on a study in Delhi, Moneer Alam A gendered perspective on well-being in later life: Algeria, Lebanon and Palestine, Kristine J. Ajrouch, Kathryn M. Yount, Abl…
Changing Patterns of Religious Affiliation, Religiosity, and Marital Dissolution: A 35-Year Study of Three-Generation Families
This article examines multiple aspects of religion and the risk of marital dissolution with a life course lens. Relying on the Longitudinal Study of Generations (LSOG), 1971 to 2005, we explore the effects of religion on the risk of first marital dissolution. Using discrete time-logit analysis, we find that the effect of religion and religiosity on divorce and separation were not significant, after controlling for sociodemographic factors, such a…
Karen R. Foster, Generation, Discourse, and Social Change
G eneration, Discourse, and Social Change is a welcome addition to the Routledge Advances in Sociology book series.It is small book -seven chapters and three short technical appendices -but punches above its weight and volume in its substantive contribution to sociology and to workers/workplaces.The book opens with an oft-heard statement about younger people "They want more.They always want more" (p. 1).This is uttered by a respondent in Foster's…
Les disparités en matière de santé au fil du vieillissement: Une comparaison du parcours de vie des premiers baby-boomers et des pré-baby-boomers au Canada
Les disparités en matière de santé au fil du vieillissement : une comparaison du parcours de vie des premiers baby-boomers et des pré-baby-boomers au Canada. Un article de la revue Sociologie et sociétés (Inégalités, parcours de vie et politiques publiques) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Understanding health sociologically
Sociology of health and illness has been enlivened with increased understanding of the complex roles, social factors and structures play in individual and societal health and well-being. New insights are simultaneously empirical and conceptual, leading to innovative approaches to analysis, as well as new conceptual frameworks. Three examples are: the social gradient of health, the population health perspective and the saliency of social fabric to…
Generationing relations in challenging times: Americans and Canadians in mid-life in the Great Recession
Generation can be seen as a crossroads where multiple socioeconomic influences intersect with individual life courses. Conceptualized as a process, performed dynamically and relationally, rather than a static category, generationing builds self-identities and concepts of how the social order is expected to work. In this article the authors ask how the multilayered processes of generationing, as experienced by those in mid-life, are affected by th…
To Know Ourselves — Not
The quest for self-knowledge has been a guiding principle throughout history. Plato acknowledged the duality of self-knowledge as both individual (the Delphic maxim “Know thyself”) and societal. “[I]f a Canadian is to seek self-knowledge that is essential for both health and wisdom, he [sic] must have access to a wider self-knowledge of his historical community and its contemporary circumstances” (Symons 1975:14). Thus began the Canadianization p…
Currents of sociology: Tradition, renewal and challenge
Life Course as a Policy Lens: Challenges and Opportunities
This set of research studies on the life course as a policy lens springs from research and discussions over more than a year and a half among academic researchers and policy analysts. The six empirical studies in this special issue all rely on the life-course perspective to extend the reach of the perspective into areas with policy relevance that have not been examined previously with a life-course lens. The studies examine aboriginal health, soc…
Gøsta Esping-Andersen, Incomplete Revolution: Adapting Welfare States to Women’s New Roles
S ome years ago, Gøsta Esping-Andersen vowed to dedicate himself to anything but the welfare state.Luckily for sociologists and others interested in the changes and challenges of welfare states, he reneged on that vow.The principal argument of this book, which is certain to be as enticing as it is controversial, is that the thus far incomplete revolution in women's roles is provoking serious disequilibria in societies.Arguing that the term "revol…
The risks of being a lone mother on income support in Canada and the USA
Purpose This paper aims to explore how neo‐liberalism shapes income support policy and lone mothers' experiences in Canada and the USA. Design/methodology/approach A critical comparative analysis is undertaken of how Canadian and US governments take up sociological concepts of risk, market citizenship, and individualization, whether explicitly or implicitly, in the design and administration of neo‐liberal income support policies directed at lone …
The 'Growing Legs' of Generation as a Policy Construct: Reviving its Family Meaning
Generation is a packed social concept with immense explanatory capacity and policy utility, yet it is a concept fraught with misunderstanding and underestimation in the aging and family policy literatures. This paper has three objectives: (1) to explore generation as a socially useful explanatory concept; (2) to show how generation has been conceptualized theoretically and historically in ways useful today; and (3) to contemplate how policy debat…
Families Caring Across Borders: Migration, Ageing and Transnational Caregiving
Baby Boomer Health Dynamics: How Are We Aging? (review)
Reviewed by Susan A. McDaniel University of Windsor Andrew V. Wister, Baby Boomer Health Dynamics: How Are We Aging? Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005, 253 pp. This is an important and timely book that sets out, as its main objective, nothing less than to assess realistically, with the best data available, the progress of the baby boom cohort with respect to healthy aging. Wister brings to bear a wide range of data, imaginatively analyse…
Aging as a Social Process: Canadian Perspectives (review)
Reviewed by: Aging as a Social Process: Canadian Perspectives, 4th edition Susan A. McDaniel Barry D. McPherson , Aging as a Social Process: Canadian Perspectives, 4th edition. Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford, 2004, 474pp. This is the fourth edition of this volume, but not a hurried subsequent edition. More than twenty years have passed since the first edition of this book came out in 1983, the second in 1990, the third in 1998. This 2004 fourth editi…
Aging as a Social Process: Canadian Perspectives
PREFACE TABLE OF CONTENTS PART 1 AN INTRODUCTION TO INDIVIDUAL AND POPULATION AGING CHAPTER 1 Aging as a Social Process CHAPTER 2 Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Aging CHAPTER 3 Individual Aging: Continuity and Change across the Life Course CHAPTER 4 Population Aging: A Demographic and Geographic Perspective PART 2 THE SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH CONTEXTS OF AGING CHAPTER 5 Understanding Older People and Aging Processes Through Theor…
Family Ties and Aging
Generationing gender: Justice and the division of welfare
Toward A Synthesis of Feminist and Demographic Perspectives on Fertility
In explaining fertility and reproduction and emerging patterns of childbearing, both demographers and feminists have centered their thinking on women's status (economic and social), women's changing roles and life experiences (increased labor force participation, increased availability of reproductive options, declining marriage rates in many parts of the industrialized world, and the centrality of women to development), and women as agents in mi…
Life Course as a Policy Lens: Challenges and Opportunities
This set of research studies on the life course as a policy lens springs from research and discussions over more than a year and a half among academic researchers and policy analysts. The six empirical studies in this special issue all rely on the life-course perspective to extend the reach of the perspective into areas with policy relevance that have not been examined previously with a life-course lens. The studies examine aboriginal health, soc…
Networks of Social Support to Manage Poverty: More Changeable than Durable
This article focuses on the durability and changeability of networks of social support to manage poverty from a life-course perspective. Drawing on interviews with members of 20 families, the authors explore networks’ origins and changes, the sources of support, and types of supports exchanged. The authors find networks to manage poverty are more likely to be in flux than durable. Intersecting transitions over life courses and shifting availabili…
The risks of being a lone mother on income support in Canada and the USA
Purpose This paper aims to explore how neo‐liberalism shapes income support policy and lone mothers' experiences in Canada and the USA. Design/methodology/approach A critical comparative analysis is undertaken of how Canadian and US governments take up sociological concepts of risk, market citizenship, and individualization, whether explicitly or implicitly, in the design and administration of neo‐liberal income support policies directed at lone …
Women's Changing Relations to the State and Citizenship: Caring and Intergenerational Relations in Globalizing Western Democracies
En sociologie, l'évolution des rapports entre les femmes et l'État s'aborde sous trois points de vue: 1) les femmes et l'État‐providence; 2) le récent concept de citoyenneté; et 3) la cohésion sociale. La présente analyse repose sur les fondements suivants: le point jusqu'où l'État peut investir dans les droits des femmes ou leurs gains et les protéger dans le contexte où l'État lui‐même se rétrecit; la contradiction entre le rétrécissement des É…
Aging and Society: A Canadian Perspective
Introduction: The Currents of Sociology Internationally-Preponderance, Diversity and Division of Labour
Demographic Aging as a Guiding Paradigm in Canada's Welfare State
The relevance of demographic aging to the development of social policy in Canada is reviewed. In this paper some of the less well understood causes and consequences of demographic aging are explored within the specific context of Canadian policy-oriented thinking. Several contemporary aspects of the complex linkages between demographic aging socio-economic structure and policy are highlighted including shifting markets economic dependency and pen…
Families by Choice and the Management of Low Income Through Social Supports
Processes of individualization have transformed families in late modernity. Although families may be more opportunistically created, they still face challenges of economic insecurity. In this article, we explore through in-depth qualitative interviews how families by choice manage low income through the instrumental and expressive supports that they give and receive. Two central themes organize our analysis: 'defining/doing family' and 'generatio…
Generationing relations in challenging times: Americans and Canadians in mid-life in the Great Recession
Generation can be seen as a crossroads where multiple socioeconomic influences intersect with individual life courses. Conceptualized as a process, performed dynamically and relationally, rather than a static category, generationing builds self-identities and concepts of how the social order is expected to work. In this article the authors ask how the multilayered processes of generationing, as experienced by those in mid-life, are affected by th…
Aging as a Social Process: Canadian Perspectives
PREFACE TABLE OF CONTENTS PART 1 AN INTRODUCTION TO INDIVIDUAL AND POPULATION AGING CHAPTER 1 Aging as a Social Process CHAPTER 2 Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Aging CHAPTER 3 Individual Aging: Continuity and Change across the Life Course CHAPTER 4 Population Aging: A Demographic and Geographic Perspective PART 2 THE SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH CONTEXTS OF AGING CHAPTER 5 Understanding Older People and Aging Processes Through Theor…
Intergenerational Transfers, Social Solidarity, and Social Policy: Unanswered Questions and Policy Challenges
Generation of Change: A Profile of America's Older Population
Born at the Right Time? Gendered Generations and Webs of Entitlement and Responsibility
Analyses of social change and challenge in sociologies for women often start with some attention to generation. Yet, generation per se has been an underconceptualized sociological construct as a structural dimension of stratification, particularly gender stratification, or as a lens through which we see social change. The concept of gendered generation, the ways in which women are positioned and position themselves in political and social struggl…
W hy do we still need a census? Views from the age of “truthiness” and the “death of evidence”
This viewpoint reports on a multidisciplinary panel held at the 2012 CAG/Congress meeting that brought together a number of researchers with important expertise on census‐related issues. They were asked to tackle the question: “Why do we still need a census?” Their presentations generated dialogue based on both Canadian and international experiences with recent changes in census data collection approaches. The article presents some cautionary obs…
Understanding health sociologically
Sociology of health and illness has been enlivened with increased understanding of the complex roles, social factors and structures play in individual and societal health and well-being. New insights are simultaneously empirical and conceptual, leading to innovative approaches to analysis, as well as new conceptual frameworks. Three examples are: the social gradient of health, the population health perspective and the saliency of social fabric to…
Health Care in Regression: Contradictions, Tensions and Implications for Canadian Seniors
Susan A. McDaniel, Neena L. Chappell, Health Care in Regression: Contradictions, Tensions and Implications for Canadian Seniors, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Mar., 1999), pp. 123-132
Family Matters: Sociology and Contemporary Canadian Families
Mothers of invention? Meshing the roles of inventor, mother, and worker
Relative prospects of children as they age: Canadians and Americans in midlife in the great recession frame future generations
To Know Ourselves — Not
The quest for self-knowledge has been a guiding principle throughout history. Plato acknowledged the duality of self-knowledge as both individual (the Delphic maxim “Know thyself”) and societal. “[I]f a Canadian is to seek self-knowledge that is essential for both health and wisdom, he [sic] must have access to a wider self-knowledge of his historical community and its contemporary circumstances” (Symons 1975:14). Thus began the Canadianization p…
Currents of sociology: Tradition, renewal and challenge
Families Caring Across Borders: Migration, Ageing and Transnational Caregiving
Population and Canadian Society
Adoption in Canada: A Neglected Area of Data Collection for Research
Family size expectations among selected Edmonton women: Three explanatory frameworks compared
Tandis que le nombre de personnes par famille converge, et que des cadres théoriques plus complets apparaissent, les interprétations structurelles démographiques des différentiels de fertilité, considérées depuis longtemps inviolables, semblent aujourd'hui insuffisantes. A l'aide d'un échantillonnage de femmes interviewées dans le cadre d'une étude sur la fertilitéà Edmonton en Alberta au Canada, nous examinons la possibilité de trois interprétat…
Social Problems through Conflict and Order
Adoption Policy in Great Britain and North America
This paper has two purposes. First, to explore what existing adoption legislation may indicate about the meaning and function of adoption practices in North America and Great Britain. Second, to consider some possible policy implications revealed by clearer understanding of the social meaning of existing adoption laws. The first part of the paper summarizes briefly the history of legal adoption. The second examines what is explicitly and implicit…
Too Many Women? The Sex Ratio Question
Introduction: The Sex Ratio Question Part 1: Clues from the Past Women's Roles in Classical Atehns and Sparta Love and Misogyny in Medieval Europe Sex and Family Among Orthodox Jews Frontier, Southern and Victorian Women in Early America Part 2: Observations From Recent Times From Sex Ratios to Sex Roles Sex Roles and Family Among White Americans Sex Roles and Family Among Black Americans Future Trends in Sex ROles and Family
Sex and Gender
Canada's Aging Population
Demographic Aging as a Guiding Paradigm in Canada's Welfare State
The relevance of demographic aging to the development of social policy in Canada is reviewed. In this paper some of the less well understood causes and consequences of demographic aging are explored within the specific context of Canadian policy-oriented thinking. Several contemporary aspects of the complex linkages between demographic aging socio-economic structure and policy are highlighted including shifting markets economic dependency and pen…
Women inventors in Canada in the 1980s
Les femmes inventrices sont rares. Elles sont redéfinies, reformées et rendues invisible par des structures patriarcales et de genre. Dans cette étude, les expériences et réalités de 21 femmes inventrices contemporaines canadiennes, des femmes qui sont dans des occupations inusités même pour des hommes, sont rapportées. Les femmes inventrices, n'importe leur degré de succès, ont souvent de la répugnance à reconnaître qu'elles sont, de fait, inven…
Mothers of invention? Meshing the roles of inventor, mother, and worker
Canada's Aging Population
Aging and Ethnicity: Toward an Interface
Women and Aging: A Sociological Perspective
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Family Matters: Sociology and Contemporary Canadian Families
Aging and Society: A Canadian Perspective
Caregiving and Care-Receiving: A Double Bind for Women in Canada's Aging Society
Many aspects of aging are women's issues. Yet research on aging has, until recently, focussed little attention of gender differences in the experience of growing old. Older women are more likely than older men to be poor, widowed, living alone in poor health, receiving assistance from both formal and informal supports, as well as being institutionalized in long-term care facilities. This secondary analysis of data from the 1982 Survey of the Elde…
Contemporary Marriage: Comparative Perspective in a Changing Institution
Family Ties and Aging
With This Ring: First Marriage Patterns: Trends and Prospects in Australia
Pension Politics and Challenges: Retirement Policy Implications
Pensions in Canada have become political, with challenges and changes occurring, and likely to occur, on several fronts, including the dismantling of universality in Old Age Security, possible alterations in eligibility for Spouse's Allowance, the allocation of pension credits upon marital dissolution, issues of vesting and portability, coverage, rights of employers/employees with respect to pension funds, among others. In addition, there have be…
Feminist Scholarship in Sociology: Transformation from within
Gender Differences in Informal Support and Coping Among Elders: Findings from Canada's 1985 and 1990 General Social Surveys
Maintenance of close ties with family and friends can ease adjustments to old age, facilitate the autonomy of the older person, and increase well-being. Provision and receipt of informal support within the context of family and friendship networks can enhance the capacity of elders to cope. Findings from Canada's 1990 General Social Survey on family and friends are analyzed to examine relationships between ties with family and friends and health …
Challenges to Mental Health Promotion Among Working Women in Canada
Health promotion efforts have concentrated on promoting physical well-being with psychological benefits perhaps most often among men. With greater proportions of women now working, the workplace provides excellent opportunities for health promotion and education for women. Given increasing recognition that stress, multiple roles, and inadequate job rewards result in loss of productivity, absenteeism, illness, addiction, and premature death, it se…
Families in Context: A World History of Population
Sociology (62 works) · Political science (31 works) · Economics (25 works) · Psychology (23 works) · Demography (20 works) · Law (20 works) · Population (19 works) · Social science (19 works) · Gender Studies (18 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (16 works)