Johfre and Colleagues Study the Social Construction of Age in the Context of Healthcare
Posted: 4/26/2024 ()
CSDE Affiliate Sasha Johfre (Sociology) co-authored new research in the American Journal of Sociology, entitled “Galvanizing the ‘Missing Revolution’: Processes and Meanings of the Child/Adult Binary in the Social Construction of Age“. Sociologists understand that seemingly innate characteristics like race and gender are social constructs, yet a similar appreciation of age has failed to take hold. Using ethnographic, interview, and population-based survey experiment data, authors interrogate the child/adult binary in the context of healthcare to illuminate processes through which age categories are essentialized and legitimated and thereby how age is socially constructed.