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Bernice Neugarten became one of gerontology's most influential social psychologists.

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Bernice L. Neugarten

After she returned to full-time academic work in 1951, Neugarten came to play a critical role in the maturation, so to speak, of human development as a subject at the University of Chicago and elsewhere, even though it was by accident that she came to specialize in adult development and aging after she was unexpectedly called upon to design a course in that subject. In 1960 she was the first person at the University of Chicago to gain tenure in that field (without a joint appointment in another department).

This period was an unusually fruitful one. The famed Kansas City Studies of Adult Life (1952–1962), conducted with foundation and federal support, were carried out under Neugarten’s leadership, jointly with Robert J. Havinghurst and William E. Henry. The project represented the first community-based research to focus on middle age and aging. With a research agenda that was, for its time, uniquely multidisciplinary, the work produced by Neugarten in 1964 and 1968 represents many of the key issues that came to define the field: social role performance,

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The Meanings of Age

Acknowledgments
Foreword: Bernice L. Neugarten and the Meanings of Age
Dail A. Neugarten
Introduction
Introduction: Definitions and Descriptions of Age
George L. Maddox
1: Age Norms, Age Constraints, and Adult Socialization
Bernice L. Neugarten, Joan W. Moore, John C. Lowe.
2: Age Groups in American Society and the Rise of the Young-Old
3: The Young-Old and the Age-Irrelevant Society
4: Age Distinctions and Their Social Functions
5: The Changing Meanings of Age
Bernice L. Neugarten, Dail A. Neugarten.
Introduction: Thoughts about the Life Course
Gunhild O. Hagestad
6: Continuities and Discontinuities of Psychological Issues into Adult Life
7: Sociological Perspectives on the Life Cycle
Bernice L. Neugarten, Nancy Datan.
8: Time, Age, and the Life Cycle
9: The Future Social Roles of the Aged
10: The Middle Years
Bernice L. Neugarten, Nancy Datan.
11: Midlife Women in the 1980’s
Bernice L. Neugarten, Lorill Brown-Rezanka.
12: Social and Psychological Characteristics of Older Persons
13: Women’s Attitudes toward the Menopause

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Profile

Bernice Neugarten

Birth:

1916

Death:

2001

Training Location(s):

PhD, University of Chicago (1943)

BA, University of Chicago (1936)

Primary Affiliation(s):

University of Chicago (1953-1980)

Northwestern University (1980-1988)

Career Focus:

Adult development; aging; personality; social age-norms.

Biography

Bernice Levin's father David was born in Lithuania, but immigrated to the United States, working as a traveling salesman in the Midwest. He met his wife, Sadie, in Chicago, and they settled in Norfolk, Nebraska, a railroad center where David worked as broker of raw wool. He bought it from ranchers and shipped it to factories in New England. Bernice Levin, born February 11, 1916, showed early signs of academic promise, becoming a voracious reader who frequently skipped grades. She graduated from high school at age 15. After a few years of conti