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Richard A. Settersten

Richard A. Settersten

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
44
Citations
11940
World Ranking
4041
National Ranking
1926

Overview

Richard A. Settersten is affiliated with Oregon State University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the social sciences and psychology through their research. Their scholarly work spans several subfields including sociology and political science, demography, neuropsychology and physiological psychology, general health professions, and health.

Their research covers a broad range of topics that intersect social dynamics and health, with notable emphasis on migration, aging and tourism studies, aging and gerontology research, health disparities and outcomes, employment and welfare studies, youth education and societal dynamics, biomedical ethics and regulation, as well as retirement, disability, and employment.

Among the recent papers authored by Richard A. Settersten are:

  • Understanding the effects of Covid-19 through a life course lens, 2020, Advances in Life Course Research
  • "Unlinked lives": Elaboration of a concept and its significance for the life course, 2023, Advances in Life Course Research
  • Studying social change in human lives: a conversation, 2023, Longitudinal and Life Course Studies

Settersten's work has appeared frequently in venues such as UNC Libraries, Advances in Life Course Research, Innovation in Aging, Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, and Longitudinal and Life Course Studies. UNC Libraries accounts for the highest number of publications.

Frequent collaborators include Amanda Grenier, Chris Phillipson, Eric T. Juengst, Jennifer R. Fishman, and Michelle L. McGowan, with multiple joint publications indicating established collaborative relationships.

Throughout their career, the research conducted by Richard A. Settersten has contributed to understanding complex social phenomena related to life course perspectives, health disparities, and social change, situating their work within interdisciplinary approaches that combine social sciences and psychology.

Best Publications

  • The Measurement of Age, Age Structuring, and the Life Course

    Richard A. Settersten;Karl Ulrich Mayer

  • Handbook of theories of aging

    Vern L. Bengtson;Richard A. Jr. Settersten;Brian K. Kennedy;Nancy Morrow-Howell

  • On the frontier of adulthood: Theory, research, and public policy.

    Richard A. Settersten;Frank F. Furstenberg;Rubén G. Rumbaut

  • What's Going on with Young People Today? The Long and Twisting Path to Adulthood

    Richard A. Settersten;Barbara Ray

  • What's the Latest? Cultural Age Deadlines for Family Transitions

    Richard A. Settersten;Gunhild O. Hägestad

  • Growing Up is Harder to do

    Frank F. Furstenberg;Sheela Kennedy;Vonnie C. McLoyd;Rubén G. Rumbaut

  • On the Frontier of Adulthood: Emerging Themes and New Directions

    Frank F. Furstenberg Jr.;Rubén C. Rumbaut;Richard A. Settersten Jr.

  • Some ways in which neighborhoods, nuclear families, friendship groups, and schools jointly affect changes in early adolescent development.

    Thomas D. Cook;Melissa R. Herman;Meredith Phillips;Richard A. Settersten

  • The life course cube: A tool for studying lives

    Laura Bernardi;Johannes Huinink;Richard A. Settersten

  • Understanding the Effects of COVID-19 Through a Life Course Lens

    Richard A. Settersten;Laura Bernardi;Juho Härkönen;Toni C. Antonucci

  • Age Structuring and the Rhythm of the Life Course

    Richard A. Settersten

  • What's the Latest? II. Cultural Age Deadlines for Educational and Work Transitions

    Richard A. Settersten;Gunhild O. Hagestad

  • Comer's School Development Program in Prince George's County, Maryland: A Theory-Based Evaluation

    Thomas D. Cook;Farah Naaz Habib;Meredith Phillips;Richard A. Settersten

  • Social age deadlines for the childbearing of women and men

    F. C. Billari;Alice Goisis;Alice Goisis;A. C. Liefbroer;R. A. Settersten

  • Invitation to the life course : toward new understandings of later life

    Richard A. Settersten

  • Sources of well-being in very old age

    Jacqui Smith;William Fleeson;Bernhard Geiselmann;Richard A. Settersten

  • Lives in Time and Place: The Problems and Promises of Developmental Science

    Richard A. Settersten

  • Citizen science or scientific citizenship? Disentangling the uses of public engagement rhetoric in national research initiatives

    J. Patrick Woolley;Michelle L. McGowan;Harriet J. A. Teare;Victoria Coathup

  • From “Personalized” to “Precision” Medicine: The Ethical and Social Implications of Rhetorical Reform in Genomic Medicine

    Eric Juengst;Michelle L. McGowan;Jennifer R. Fishman;Richard A. Settersten

  • Relationships in Time and the Life Course: The Significance of Linked Lives

    Richard A. Settersten

  • Handbook of Sociology of Aging

    Richard A. Settersten;Jacqueline Lowe Angel

  • Personalized Genomic Medicine and the Rhetoric of Empowerment

    Eric T. Juengst;Michael A. Flatt;Richard A. Settersten

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank F. Furstenberg
Frank F. Furstenberg University of Pennsylvania
Jacqueline L. Angel
Jacqueline L. Angel The University of Texas at Austin
Carolyn M. Aldwin
Carolyn M. Aldwin Oregon State University
Jacqui Smith
Jacqui Smith University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Glen H. Elder
Glen H. Elder University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Megan M. McClelland
Megan M. McClelland Oregon State University
Avron Spiro
Avron Spiro Boston University
G. John Geldhof
G. John Geldhof Oregon State University
William Fleeson
William Fleeson Wake Forest University
Karen Hooker
Karen Hooker Oregon State University

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