Date: Friday, August 9

Time: 4:30 PM - 6:10 PM

Session 029: Cross-Generational Sociological Lessons
Room: Salon 5

Sponsor: 

Organizer, Presider &

Discussant: Brittney Miles, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Description: 

This panel will examine the critical insights we gain from looking across and between generations in the contexts of education, medicine, and rural communities in the United States and Nigeria. Specifically, this panel explores how resident doctors in Nigeria consider aging in place, Black place-making through historically Black K-12 schools, intersectional intergenerational social mobility through education among rural families of color, and how 1.5-generation immigrant youth navigate informational resources for college access. Together, these papers highlight how we learn from diverse populations to reveal layers of meaning-making across and between generations.

Papers:

“‘They Are Just More Approachable’: Immigrant Youth and the College Information Search,” Irina Chukhray, University of California, Davis

“A Journey beyond White Coats: Aging in Place Intention of Resident Doctors in South-west Nigeria,” Macellina Yinyinade Ijadunola, Obafemi Awolowo University

“Everything is Changing: Cross-generational Placemaking and Black High Schools,” Kierra N. Toney, University of Cincinnati

“Phased Retirement and the Devaluation of Older Workers in Academia,” Wendy Simonds, Georgia State University

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