A W Goldman
Biographic Data
| ID | 54764 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A W Goldman |
| GIVEN NAMES | A W |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldman |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDMAN A W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1634-660X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 242 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Beyond the Block: Social Network Extralocality and Cognitive Function Among U.S. Older Adults
ObjectivesCognitive function is shaped by social network characteristics, but the geographic dispersion of social network ties remains understudied. We examine whether having a greater proportion of network ties residing outside of one's local area ("network extralocality") may benefit cognitive function among U.S. older adults.MethodsWe analyzed nationally representative data from the 2015-2016 National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project ( N…
Acculturation, Depressive Symptoms, and Friendship Instability Among Immigrant Adolescents
Recent scholarship suggests that personal tie instability, that is, the dissolution of old ties and the formation of new ties, may lead to psychological distress. However, this association remains understudied among the immigrant population, for whom acculturation may present unique challenges to both personal tie stability and psychological well-being. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, we investigate …
All in the family? Understanding differences in the kin-centricity of older US adults’ core discussion networks from classic age, period, and cohort table estimates
Examining the Stability of Public Opinion in an Era of Polarization: A Review of Stable Condition
Sensory Health Among Older Adults in the United States: A Neighborhood Context Approach
We propose that neighborhood characteristics could influence certain environmental exposures, the amount of time that older adults spend out of the home, patterns of social engagement, and access to preventative care that collectively affect sensory health. Residential neighborhoods may be important sites of potential intervention to slow age-related sensory declines and other related conditions
No Place Like Home? Local Crime and Older Adults' Time at Home
Home is a locus of everyday activity among a growing population of Americans who are 'aging in place,' and for whom leaving the home is generally thought to benefit quality of life and well-being. Sociological and criminological theory has often assumed that higher levels of local crime constrain individuals' activities to the residential environment, although few studies have empirically tested this assumption. We use longitudinal smartphone-bas…
Personal Network Size and Social Accompaniment: Protective or Risk Factor for Momentary Loneliness, and for Whom
Personal networks yield important health benefits for individuals, in part by providing more opportunities to be in the company of others throughout daily life. Social accompaniment is generally believed to protect against momentary feelings of loneliness, although this hypothesis remains understudied. We examine how personal network size shapes older adults’ experiences of momentary loneliness and whether this association varies by momentary soc…
Banking on the Neighborhood? Inequalities in Older Adults’ Access to Local Banking and Neighborhood Perceptions
Local banks may represent neighborhood investment and the broader economic vitality of a community, as well as the ability of communities to meet older adults' everyday needs in ways that enhance older residents' feelings of safety. Increasing access to local financial institutions may help attenuate neighborhood-based contributors to inequalities in health and well-being among the older adult population
Neighborhood conditions and social network turnover among older adults
Stand by Me: Social Ties and Health in Real Time
Sociological research has documented myriad associations between individuals' overall social connectedness and health but rarely considers the shorter-term dynamics of social life that may underlie these associations. The authors examine how being with others ('social accompaniment') is associated with momentary experiences of symptoms, drawing smartphone-based ecological momentary assessments ( n = 12,760) collected from 342 older adults from th…
Olfaction in (Social) Context: The Role of Social Complexity in Trajectories of Older Adults’ Olfactory Abilities
Objectives: Olfaction is an important correlate of later-life health, including cognition and mortality risk. Environmental enrichment protects against olfactory decline, yet little research considers the social context as a source of sensory enrichment or stimulation. This study examines how exposure to social complexity (i.e., diversity or novelty in social networks and activities) shapes later-life olfaction. Methods: Cross-sectional and longi…
The Early-Life Origins of Later-Life Networks
Personal social networks profoundly influence a wide range of outcomes throughout the life course. But little research has considered how some features of individuals' social networks may be shaped by experiences in early life. This study uses nationally representative data from the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project to examine how childhood circumstances may shape the structure of older adults' personal social networks. The analyses…
Everyday discrimination in later life: A social network approach
Tracking Egocentric Social Network Change Across Three Rounds of National Survey Data
These data provide new insights into the dynamic nature of networks in later life. Data limitations, and directions for future research, are discussed
Local Ties in the Social Networks of Older Adults
Local ties may bring unique benefits for community-residing older adults, but their availability is likely structured by residential mobility, neighborhood context, disparities in resources, and support needs. Future research should consider their implications for health and well-being
Homeostasis Revisited: Patterns of Stability and Rebalancing in Older Adults’ Social Lives
There is an overwhelming tendency toward either maintaining or rebalancing previous structures and levels of both personal network connectedness and community involvement. This results in overall homeostasis. We close by discussing the need for a unifying theoretical framework that can explain these patterns
Neighborhood Disorder and Distress in Real Time: Evidence from a Smartphone-Based Study of Older Adults
Socioeconomic disadvantage and disorder in the residential neighborhood have been linked to multiple health risks, but less is known about the relevance of other spaces of daily life. This article considers whether disadvantage and disorder in the immediate context-within or outside of the residential neighborhood-is associated with physiological symptoms indicative of stress and strain. We use data from a study of 61 older adults in four New Yor…
Urban Mobility and Activity Space
Recent theoretical and methodological advances in urban sociology, including spatially located data, provide new opportunities to consider the joint influence of mobility and place in urban social life. This review defines the concept of activity space, describes its origins in urban sociology, and examines the extent to which activity space approaches advance sociological research in four substantive domains-spatial inequality and segregation, s…
What Percentage of Americans Have Ever Had a Family Member Incarcerated: Evidence from the Family History of Incarceration Survey (FamHIS)
What percentage of Americans have ever had a family member incarcerated? To answer this question, we designed the Family History of Incarceration Survey (FamHIS). The survey was administered in the summer of 2018 by NORC at the University of Chicago using their AmeriSpeak Panel. It was funded by FWD.us, which released a separate report using the data. The data show that 45 percent of Americans have ever had an immediate family member incarcerated…
Linked Lives in Double Jeopardy: Child Incarceration and Maternal Health at Midlife
Parents' relationships with their adult children play an important role in shaping mid and later life health. While these relationships are often sources of support, stressors in the lives of children can compromise parents' health as they age. I consider that a child's incarceration is also a stressor that could imperil parents' health through social, emotional, and economic strains that parents may experience as a result. Using data on 3,159 mo…
Parental Incarceration and Child Health in the United States
Mass incarceration has profoundly restructured the life courses of not only marginalized adult men for whom this event is now so prevalent but also their families. We examined research published from 2000 to 2017 on the consequences of parental incarceration for child health in the United States. In addition to focusing on specific health outcomes, we also considered broader indicators of child well-being because there has been little research on…
Conditions of Confinement in American Prisons and Jails
Research on the consequences of incarceration for inmates and ex-inmates, their families, and their communities has proliferated in just the last 20 years. Yet little of this research has documented variation across facilities in conditions of confinement or how these variations in conditions of confinement shape the consequences of incarceration for inmates and ex-inmates, their families, and their communities. Also, the conditions of confinemen…
Social Disadvantage and Instability in Older Adults' Ties to Their Adult Children
ObjectiveThe authors examine whether racial and socioeconomic factors influence older adults' likelihood of experiencing instability in their social network ties with their adult children.BackgroundRecent work shows that socially disadvantaged older adults' social networks are more unstable and exhibit higher rates of turnover, perhaps due to greater exposure to broader social-environmental instability. The authors consider whether this network i…
How much would eliminating drug crimes decrease racial/ethnic gaps in criminal conviction
Settling in: The Role of Individual and Departmental Tactics in the Development of New Faculty Networks
Network formation is a key element of newcomer socialization; however, little is understood about how newcomer networks are formed in higher education. Drawing on a series of interviews with 34 new pre-tenure faculty members, we propose that just as individual and organizational socialization tactics interactively influence newcomer adjustment (Gruman, Saks, & Zweig, 2006), so too will they affect new faculty experiences with network formation. O…
Urban Mobility and Activity Space
Recent theoretical and methodological advances in urban sociology, including spatially located data, provide new opportunities to consider the joint influence of mobility and place in urban social life. This review defines the concept of activity space, describes its origins in urban sociology, and examines the extent to which activity space approaches advance sociological research in four substantive domains-spatial inequality and segregation, s…
What Percentage of Americans Have Ever Had a Family Member Incarcerated: Evidence from the Family History of Incarceration Survey (FamHIS)
What percentage of Americans have ever had a family member incarcerated? To answer this question, we designed the Family History of Incarceration Survey (FamHIS). The survey was administered in the summer of 2018 by NORC at the University of Chicago using their AmeriSpeak Panel. It was funded by FWD.us, which released a separate report using the data. The data show that 45 percent of Americans have ever had an immediate family member incarcerated…
Local Ties in the Social Networks of Older Adults
Local ties may bring unique benefits for community-residing older adults, but their availability is likely structured by residential mobility, neighborhood context, disparities in resources, and support needs. Future research should consider their implications for health and well-being
Homeostasis Revisited: Patterns of Stability and Rebalancing in Older Adults’ Social Lives
There is an overwhelming tendency toward either maintaining or rebalancing previous structures and levels of both personal network connectedness and community involvement. This results in overall homeostasis. We close by discussing the need for a unifying theoretical framework that can explain these patterns
Social Disadvantage and Instability in Older Adults' Ties to Their Adult Children
ObjectiveThe authors examine whether racial and socioeconomic factors influence older adults' likelihood of experiencing instability in their social network ties with their adult children.BackgroundRecent work shows that socially disadvantaged older adults' social networks are more unstable and exhibit higher rates of turnover, perhaps due to greater exposure to broader social-environmental instability. The authors consider whether this network i…
Social network bridging potential and the use of complementary and alternative medicine in later life
Conditions of Confinement in American Prisons and Jails
Research on the consequences of incarceration for inmates and ex-inmates, their families, and their communities has proliferated in just the last 20 years. Yet little of this research has documented variation across facilities in conditions of confinement or how these variations in conditions of confinement shape the consequences of incarceration for inmates and ex-inmates, their families, and their communities. Also, the conditions of confinemen…
Linked Lives in Double Jeopardy: Child Incarceration and Maternal Health at Midlife
Parents' relationships with their adult children play an important role in shaping mid and later life health. While these relationships are often sources of support, stressors in the lives of children can compromise parents' health as they age. I consider that a child's incarceration is also a stressor that could imperil parents' health through social, emotional, and economic strains that parents may experience as a result. Using data on 3,159 mo…
All in the family: The link between kin network bridging and cardiovascular risk among older adults
Tracking Egocentric Social Network Change Across Three Rounds of National Survey Data
These data provide new insights into the dynamic nature of networks in later life. Data limitations, and directions for future research, are discussed
Neighborhood Disorder and Distress in Real Time: Evidence from a Smartphone-Based Study of Older Adults
Socioeconomic disadvantage and disorder in the residential neighborhood have been linked to multiple health risks, but less is known about the relevance of other spaces of daily life. This article considers whether disadvantage and disorder in the immediate context-within or outside of the residential neighborhood-is associated with physiological symptoms indicative of stress and strain. We use data from a study of 61 older adults in four New Yor…
Stand by Me: Social Ties and Health in Real Time
Sociological research has documented myriad associations between individuals' overall social connectedness and health but rarely considers the shorter-term dynamics of social life that may underlie these associations. The authors examine how being with others ('social accompaniment') is associated with momentary experiences of symptoms, drawing smartphone-based ecological momentary assessments ( n = 12,760) collected from 342 older adults from th…
Everyday discrimination in later life: A social network approach
Settling in: The Role of Individual and Departmental Tactics in the Development of New Faculty Networks
Network formation is a key element of newcomer socialization; however, little is understood about how newcomer networks are formed in higher education. Drawing on a series of interviews with 34 new pre-tenure faculty members, we propose that just as individual and organizational socialization tactics interactively influence newcomer adjustment (Gruman, Saks, & Zweig, 2006), so too will they affect new faculty experiences with network formation. O…
No Place Like Home? Local Crime and Older Adults' Time at Home
Home is a locus of everyday activity among a growing population of Americans who are 'aging in place,' and for whom leaving the home is generally thought to benefit quality of life and well-being. Sociological and criminological theory has often assumed that higher levels of local crime constrain individuals' activities to the residential environment, although few studies have empirically tested this assumption. We use longitudinal smartphone-bas…
Neighborhood conditions and social network turnover among older adults
The Early-Life Origins of Later-Life Networks
Personal social networks profoundly influence a wide range of outcomes throughout the life course. But little research has considered how some features of individuals' social networks may be shaped by experiences in early life. This study uses nationally representative data from the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project to examine how childhood circumstances may shape the structure of older adults' personal social networks. The analyses…
Social network bridging potential and the use of complementary and alternative medicine in later life
Settling in: The Role of Individual and Departmental Tactics in the Development of New Faculty Networks
Network formation is a key element of newcomer socialization; however, little is understood about how newcomer networks are formed in higher education. Drawing on a series of interviews with 34 new pre-tenure faculty members, we propose that just as individual and organizational socialization tactics interactively influence newcomer adjustment (Gruman, Saks, & Zweig, 2006), so too will they affect new faculty experiences with network formation. O…
All in the family: The link between kin network bridging and cardiovascular risk among older adults
Parental Incarceration and Child Health in the United States
Mass incarceration has profoundly restructured the life courses of not only marginalized adult men for whom this event is now so prevalent but also their families. We examined research published from 2000 to 2017 on the consequences of parental incarceration for child health in the United States. In addition to focusing on specific health outcomes, we also considered broader indicators of child well-being because there has been little research on…
Conditions of Confinement in American Prisons and Jails
Research on the consequences of incarceration for inmates and ex-inmates, their families, and their communities has proliferated in just the last 20 years. Yet little of this research has documented variation across facilities in conditions of confinement or how these variations in conditions of confinement shape the consequences of incarceration for inmates and ex-inmates, their families, and their communities. Also, the conditions of confinemen…
Social Disadvantage and Instability in Older Adults' Ties to Their Adult Children
ObjectiveThe authors examine whether racial and socioeconomic factors influence older adults' likelihood of experiencing instability in their social network ties with their adult children.BackgroundRecent work shows that socially disadvantaged older adults' social networks are more unstable and exhibit higher rates of turnover, perhaps due to greater exposure to broader social-environmental instability. The authors consider whether this network i…
How much would eliminating drug crimes decrease racial/ethnic gaps in criminal conviction
What Percentage of Americans Have Ever Had a Family Member Incarcerated: Evidence from the Family History of Incarceration Survey (FamHIS)
What percentage of Americans have ever had a family member incarcerated? To answer this question, we designed the Family History of Incarceration Survey (FamHIS). The survey was administered in the summer of 2018 by NORC at the University of Chicago using their AmeriSpeak Panel. It was funded by FWD.us, which released a separate report using the data. The data show that 45 percent of Americans have ever had an immediate family member incarcerated…
Linked Lives in Double Jeopardy: Child Incarceration and Maternal Health at Midlife
Parents' relationships with their adult children play an important role in shaping mid and later life health. While these relationships are often sources of support, stressors in the lives of children can compromise parents' health as they age. I consider that a child's incarceration is also a stressor that could imperil parents' health through social, emotional, and economic strains that parents may experience as a result. Using data on 3,159 mo…
Local Ties in the Social Networks of Older Adults
Local ties may bring unique benefits for community-residing older adults, but their availability is likely structured by residential mobility, neighborhood context, disparities in resources, and support needs. Future research should consider their implications for health and well-being
Homeostasis Revisited: Patterns of Stability and Rebalancing in Older Adults’ Social Lives
There is an overwhelming tendency toward either maintaining or rebalancing previous structures and levels of both personal network connectedness and community involvement. This results in overall homeostasis. We close by discussing the need for a unifying theoretical framework that can explain these patterns
Neighborhood Disorder and Distress in Real Time: Evidence from a Smartphone-Based Study of Older Adults
Socioeconomic disadvantage and disorder in the residential neighborhood have been linked to multiple health risks, but less is known about the relevance of other spaces of daily life. This article considers whether disadvantage and disorder in the immediate context-within or outside of the residential neighborhood-is associated with physiological symptoms indicative of stress and strain. We use data from a study of 61 older adults in four New Yor…
Urban Mobility and Activity Space
Recent theoretical and methodological advances in urban sociology, including spatially located data, provide new opportunities to consider the joint influence of mobility and place in urban social life. This review defines the concept of activity space, describes its origins in urban sociology, and examines the extent to which activity space approaches advance sociological research in four substantive domains-spatial inequality and segregation, s…
Tracking Egocentric Social Network Change Across Three Rounds of National Survey Data
These data provide new insights into the dynamic nature of networks in later life. Data limitations, and directions for future research, are discussed
Olfaction in (Social) Context: The Role of Social Complexity in Trajectories of Older Adults’ Olfactory Abilities
Objectives: Olfaction is an important correlate of later-life health, including cognition and mortality risk. Environmental enrichment protects against olfactory decline, yet little research considers the social context as a source of sensory enrichment or stimulation. This study examines how exposure to social complexity (i.e., diversity or novelty in social networks and activities) shapes later-life olfaction. Methods: Cross-sectional and longi…
The Early-Life Origins of Later-Life Networks
Personal social networks profoundly influence a wide range of outcomes throughout the life course. But little research has considered how some features of individuals' social networks may be shaped by experiences in early life. This study uses nationally representative data from the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project to examine how childhood circumstances may shape the structure of older adults' personal social networks. The analyses…
Everyday discrimination in later life: A social network approach
Personal Network Size and Social Accompaniment: Protective or Risk Factor for Momentary Loneliness, and for Whom
Personal networks yield important health benefits for individuals, in part by providing more opportunities to be in the company of others throughout daily life. Social accompaniment is generally believed to protect against momentary feelings of loneliness, although this hypothesis remains understudied. We examine how personal network size shapes older adults’ experiences of momentary loneliness and whether this association varies by momentary soc…
Banking on the Neighborhood? Inequalities in Older Adults’ Access to Local Banking and Neighborhood Perceptions
Local banks may represent neighborhood investment and the broader economic vitality of a community, as well as the ability of communities to meet older adults' everyday needs in ways that enhance older residents' feelings of safety. Increasing access to local financial institutions may help attenuate neighborhood-based contributors to inequalities in health and well-being among the older adult population
Neighborhood conditions and social network turnover among older adults
Stand by Me: Social Ties and Health in Real Time
Sociological research has documented myriad associations between individuals' overall social connectedness and health but rarely considers the shorter-term dynamics of social life that may underlie these associations. The authors examine how being with others ('social accompaniment') is associated with momentary experiences of symptoms, drawing smartphone-based ecological momentary assessments ( n = 12,760) collected from 342 older adults from th…
Examining the Stability of Public Opinion in an Era of Polarization: A Review of Stable Condition
Sensory Health Among Older Adults in the United States: A Neighborhood Context Approach
We propose that neighborhood characteristics could influence certain environmental exposures, the amount of time that older adults spend out of the home, patterns of social engagement, and access to preventative care that collectively affect sensory health. Residential neighborhoods may be important sites of potential intervention to slow age-related sensory declines and other related conditions
No Place Like Home? Local Crime and Older Adults' Time at Home
Home is a locus of everyday activity among a growing population of Americans who are 'aging in place,' and for whom leaving the home is generally thought to benefit quality of life and well-being. Sociological and criminological theory has often assumed that higher levels of local crime constrain individuals' activities to the residential environment, although few studies have empirically tested this assumption. We use longitudinal smartphone-bas…
Acculturation, Depressive Symptoms, and Friendship Instability Among Immigrant Adolescents
Recent scholarship suggests that personal tie instability, that is, the dissolution of old ties and the formation of new ties, may lead to psychological distress. However, this association remains understudied among the immigrant population, for whom acculturation may present unique challenges to both personal tie stability and psychological well-being. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, we investigate …
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