Cumulative advantage/disadvantage and the life course: cross-fertilizing age and social science theory.

By D. Dannefer. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences, 2003

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Subfields: Demography, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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Cumulative Advantage Processes as Mechanisms of Inequality in Life Course Health1 (2007, background): “E-mail: willson@uwo.ca Cumulative Advantage 1887 advantage associated with structural location results in systematic divergence in life course processes across individuals or groups over time (Dannefer 1987, 2003; Merton 1968; O’Rand 1996).”
Social Inequality and Health Across the Life Course (2013, background): “…hypothesis to the accumulation of socioeconomic and health advantages across the life course, proposing that cumulative 1048 American Behavioral Scientist 57(8) advantage processes will produce increased heterogeneity or “fanning out” of inequality between groups over time (Dannefer, 1987, 2003).”
The impact of childhood and adult SES on physical, mental, and cognitive well-being in later life. (2005, background): “At the same time, the theory of cumulative advantage/disadvantage suggests that individuals within a cohort increasingly diverge over the life course in characteristics like money and health, as large initial endowments lead to large additional gains and initial disadvantage causes further decline, ”
Genetics and Social Inquiry (2009, background): “…on cumulative disadvantage and other tools from life course research can further our understanding of how selection into different environments widen initial individual differences, so that genetic and environmental causes may often be mutually reinforcing (Dannefer 2003, DiPrete & Eirich 2006).”
Aging and cumulative inequality: how does inequality get under the skin? (2009, background): “Many scholars summarize CAD via the maxim advantage accumulates , but Dannefer (2003) defi nes CAD as the “ systematic tendency for interindividual divergence in a given characteristic (e.g., money, health, status) with the passage of time ” (p. 327).”
Pathways between socioeconomic status and health: Does health selection or social causation dominate in Europe? (2018, background): “For the increasing effect of social causation we can only speculate that this has to do with an increase in social inequality resulting from accumulative processes during the life course (Dannefer, 2003).”
A Longitudinal Study of Social Status, Perceived Discrimination, and Physical and Emotional Health Among Older Adults (2012, background): “This perspective notes the changed salience of certain life events with age as advantages or disadvantages associated with them have cumulative effects on health (Dannefer, 2003).”
LGBT aging and Rhetorical silence (2009, background): “This failure is also evident in the work of such leading life-course theorists as Dannefer (2003) and O’Rand (1996)—all discussions disregard the idea that some individuals might live so far outside the traditional life course (i.e., they might live in queer time, as Halberstam would suggest) that t”