V. 1, CHILDHOOD & ADOLESCENCE. Academic achievement
Activity participation
Adopted children
Age norms
Aggression, childhood and adolescence
Assimilation
Attachment theory
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Autism
Albert Bandura
Bilingual education
Biracial youth/mixed race youth
Birth weight
Body image
John Bowlby
Breastfeeding
Urie Bronfenbrenner
Bullying and peer victimization
Child abuse
Child care and early education
Child custody and support
Civic engagement
John Clausen
Cognitive ability
James Coleman
College culture
College enrollment
Consumption
Crime, criminal activity
Cultural capital
Cultural images
Data sources: general issues; Baltimore study; Bennington Women's Study; Berkeley Guidance Study; Oakland Growth Study; Early Childhood Longitudinal Studies; National Educational Longitudinal Study; Study of Adolescent Health
National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
Stanford-Terman Study
Dating and romantic relationships
Developmental Systems Theory
Disability
Adolescent drinking and drug abuse
Eating disorders
Glen H. Elder, Jr.
Youth employment
Erik Erikson
Family and household structure
Family process model
Foster care
Sigmund Freud
Friendship
Gangs
Gays & lesbians
Gender and education
Gender differences in depression
Genetic influences, early life
Grandchildren
Health behaviors
Health care use
Health differentials & disparities
High school dropout
High school organization
High-stakes testing
Home schooling
Homeless youth
Human capital
Identity development
Illness and disease
Immigration
Infant & child mortality
Intergenerational closure
Interpretive theory
Juvenile justice system
Learning disability
Maternal employment
Margaret Mead
Media and technology use
Media effects
Mental health
Mentoring
Moral development and education
Neighborhood context
Obesity
Oppositional culture
Parent-child relationships
Parental involvement in education
Parenting style
Peer groups and crowds
Person-oriented approaches
Jean Piaget
Child well-being policy
Education policy
Political socialization
Poverty
Private schools
Puberty
Racial inequality in education
Religion and spirituality
Residential mobility
Resilience
School culture
School readiness
School tracking
School transitions
School violence
School segregation
Self-esteem
Sex education/Abstinence education
Sexual activity
Sibling relationships
Social capital
Social development
Gender socialization
Socialization
Race socialization
Socioeconomic inequality in education
Sports and athletics
Stages of schooling: elementary, middle school, high school
Teen Suicide
Theories of deviance
W. I. Thomas
Transition to marriage
Transition to parenthood
Vocational training and education
Youth culture


V. 2, ADULTHOOD. Abortion
Adoptive parents
Agency
AIDS
Andropause/Male menopause
Physical attractiveness
Baby boom cohort
Biracial/mixed race adults
Birth control
Body image
Careers
Childbearing
Childlessness
Cohabitation
Communitarianism
Consumption
Continuing education
Crime and criminal activity
Crime and victimization
Cultural images
Data sources: Americans' Changing Lives (ACL); Current Population Study (CPS); General Social Survey (GSS); Longitudinal Study of Generations (LSOG); Midlife in the United States (MIDUS); National Longitudinal Surveys of Mature Men and Women; Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); U.S. (Decennial) Census
Dating and romantic relationships
Debt
Disability
Divorce and separation
Domestic violence
Dual career couples
Emile Durkheim
Economic restructuring
Educational attainment
Employment
Ethnic and racial identity
Family and household structure
Fatherhood
Flexible work arrangements
Friendship
Gambling
Gays and lesbians
Gender in the workplace
Genetic influences
Anthony Giddens
Globalization
Health behaviors
Health care use
Health differentials & disparities
Health insurance
Home ownership & housing
Homeless adults
Housework
Immigration
Incarceration
Income equality
Individuation/standardization debate
Infertility
Social institutions
Job change
Job characteristics and job stress
Leisure and travel
Life events
Karl Mannheim
Marriage
Karl Marx
Mate selection
maternal mortality
Media and technology use
Menopause
Mental health
Midlife crises and transitions
Military service
C. Wright Mills
Motherhood
Neighborhood content
Obesity
Occupations
Parent-child relationships
Personality
Employment policy
Family policy
Health policy
Political behavior and orientations
Poverty
Racism/race discrimination
Relative Cohort Size Hypothesis
Religion and spirituality
Remarriage
Residential morbidity
Risk
Roles
Saving
School to work transition
Residential segregation
Self-employment
Sexism/sex discrimination
Sexual activity
Sibling relationships
Georg Simmel
Social class
Social integration & isolation
Social mobility
Social movements
Social networks
Social structure, social system
Social support
Sociological theories
Stress
Suicide
Time use
Transition to adulthood
Trauma
Unemployment
Volunteering
Work-family conflict


V. 3, LATER LIFE. Active life expectancy
Age identity
Age segregation
Age structure
Age, period, cohort effects
Ageism/age discrimination
Aging
Aging in place
Allostatic load
Arthritis
Assisted living facilities
Assistive technologies
Margret and Paul Baltes
Vern Bengston
Cancer
Cardiovascular disease
Caregiving
Centenarians
Chronic illness
Cognitive functioning and decline
Cohort
Creativity
Crime and victimization
Cultural images
Data sources: Berlin Aging Study; English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA); Health and Retirement Study (HRS); Longitudinal Study of Aging (LSOA); Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE); Wisconsin Longitudinal Study
Death and dying
Dementias
Demographic transition theories
Diabetes
Disability and functional limitation
Elder abuse and neglect
End of life-decision-making
Epidemiologic transition
Family and household structure
Anne Foner
Frailty and robustness
Friendship
Gays and lesbians
Genetic influences
Global aging
Grandparenthood
Health behaviors
Health care use
Health differentials & disparities
Health literacy
Hospice and palliative care
Inheritance
Intergenerational transfers
Leisure and travel
Life expectancy
Lifelong learning
Loneliness
Long-term care
Helena Lopata
Marriage in later life
Karl Ulrich Mayer
Media and technology use
Mental health
Phyllis Moen
Mortality
Neighborhood context
Bernice Neugarten
Older drivers
Oldest old
Acute pain, chronic pain
Parent-child relationships
Pensions
Later life well-being policy
Political behavior and orientations
Population aging
Poverty
Quality of life
Religion and spirituality
Research methods: Correlation vs. causation; Variables
Residential mobility
Retirement
Retirement communities
Matilda White Riley
Alice Rossi
Norman Ryder
Self
Self-related health
Sensory impairments
Sexual activity
Ethel Shanas
Sibling relationships
Singlehood
Sleep patterns and behavior
Social integration and isolation
Social Security
Social selection-causation debate
Social support
Stress in later life
Suicide
Theories of aging
Time use
Volunteering
Wealth
Widowhood
Wisdom.