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Handbook of
Theories of
Aging
Vern L. Bengtson, PhD, is research professor of gerontology and Professor Emer-
itus of Sociology at the University of Southern California. He has a PhD from
the University of Chicago and is past president of the Gerontological Society of
America. He has coauthored How Families Still Matter: A Longitudinal Study of
Two Generations and coedited the Cambridge Handbook of Age and Ageing, the
Sourcebook of Family Theory and Research, and Aging in East and West: Families,
States, and the Elderly. His research articles have appeared in the Journals of
Gerontology , American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, and
Research on Aging .
Merril Silverstein, PhD, is a professor in the Davis School of Gerontology and
the Department of Sociology at the University of Southern California. He holds
a doctorate degree in sociology from Columbia University. He was previously
research assistant professor at Brown University and before that an NIA post-
doctoral scholar in aging research at the University of Southern California. He
has authored over 100 published works, including two edited volumes: Intergen-
erational Relations Across Time and Place and From Generation to Generation:
Continuity and Discontinuity in Aging Families. He is a fellow of the Geronto-
logical Society of America, the Brookdale National Fellowship Program, and the
Fulbright International Senior Scholars Program.
Norella M. Putney, PhD, is a research assistant professor in the Department
of Sociology at the University of Southern California and currently serves as
project director of the Transmission of Religion Across Generations study, an
investigation of religion and families, supported by a grant from the John Tem-
pleton Foundation. She holds a doctoral degree in sociology from the University
of Southern California and has published on such topics as theories of aging,
intergenerational relations, ag