Retirement Without God: Activism and Community Among Secular People Over 60

Abstract There are more than 1,400 nonbeliever communities in the United States and well over a dozen organizations that advocate for secular people on the national level. Together, these local and national groups comprise a social movement that includes atheists, agnostics, humanists, freethinkers, and other kinds of nonbelievers. Despite the fact that retired people over 60 dedicate most of the money and energy needed to run these groups, the increasingly vast literature on secular people and secularism has paid them almost no attention. Relying on more than one hundred interviews (including dozens with people over 60), several years of ethnographic research, and a survey of organized nonbelievers, this paper demonstrates the crucial role that people over 60 play in the American secular movement today. It also considers the reasons older adults are so important to these groups, the challenges they face in trying to recruit younger members and combat stereotypes about aging leadership, and generational differences that structure how various types of nonbeliever groups look and feel. This paper reframes scholarly understandings of very secular Americans by focusing on people over 60 and charts a new path in secular studies.

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Mental and physical health problems, time spent in the United States, and alcohol use among Latino older adults

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e595972013-001 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Melanie Robbins ◽

Oscar S. Escobar ◽

Ellen L. Vaughan

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Older Adults ◽

Alcohol Use ◽

Physical Health ◽

The United States ◽

Health Problems ◽

Physical Health Problems ◽

Mental And Physical Health ◽

Latino Older Adults

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“Resting Frontal EEG Asymmetry and Emotion Regulation in Older Adults: The Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) Study,” Correction to Kelley and Hughes (2019).

Psychology and Aging ◽

10.1037/pag0000363 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 34 (4) ◽

pp. 474-474

Author(s):

Nicholas J. Kelley ◽

Matthew L. Hughes

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Older Adults ◽

Emotion Regulation ◽

The United States ◽

Eeg Asymmetry ◽

Frontal Eeg Asymmetry

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Weight Identity Among Older Adults in the United States: Genetic and Environmental Influences

The Oxford Handbook of Integrative Health Science ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190676384.013.16 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 262-274

Author(s):

Robbee Wedow ◽

Daniel A. Briley ◽

Susan E. Short ◽

Jason Boardman

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Older Adults ◽

Social Identity ◽

Weight Status ◽

Environmental Influences ◽

Subjective Assessment ◽

The United States ◽

Men And Women ◽

Perceived Weight ◽

Midlife Adults

This chapter uses twin pairs from the Midlife in the United States study to investigate the genetic and environmental influences on perceived weight status for midlife adults. The inquiry builds on previous work investigating the same phenomenon in adolescents, and it shows that perceived weight status is not only heritable, but also heritable beyond objective weight. Subjective assessment of physical weight is independent of one’s physical weight and described as “weight identity.” Importantly, significant differences are shown in the heritability of weight identity among men and women. The chapter ends by discussing the potential relevance of these findings for broader social identity research.

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Patient Autonomy, Capacity, and Consent

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Health Law ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190846756.013.51 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Mary Donnelly ◽

Jessica Berg

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

National Level ◽

The United States ◽

Legal Framework ◽

National Standard ◽

Legal Principles ◽

Key Issues ◽

Human Rights Norms ◽

Law And Legislation

This chapter explores a number of key issues: the role of competence and capacity, advance directives, and decisions made for others. It analyses the ways these are treated in the United States and in selected European jurisdictions. National-level capacity legislation and human rights norms play a central role in Europe, which means that healthcare decisions in situations of impaired capacity operate in accordance with a national standard. In the United States, the legal framework is more state-based (rather than federal), and the courts have played a significant role, with both common law and legislation varying considerably across jurisdictions. Despite these differences, this chapter identifies some similar legal principles which have developed.

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Ethnohistory's Ethnohistory

Social Science History ◽

10.1017/s0145553200011184 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 34 (2) ◽

pp. 113-128

Author(s):

Michael E. Harkin

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Ethical Issues ◽

Theoretical Orientation ◽

Historical Analysis ◽

The United States ◽

Ethnographic Research ◽

European Contact ◽

Documentary Sources ◽

Research Areas ◽

Foundational Work

This article examines the first decades of the field of ethnohistory as it developed in the United States. It participated in the general rapprochement between history and anthropology of mid-twentieth-century social science. However, unlike parallel developments in Europe and in other research areas, ethnohistory specifically arose out of the study of American Indian communities in the era of the Indian Claims Commission. Thus ethnohistory developed from a pragmatic rather than a theoretical orientation, with practitioners testifying both in favor of and against claims. Methodology was flexible, with both documentary sources and ethnographic methods employed to the degree that each was feasible. One way that ethnohistory was innovative was the degree to which women played prominent roles in its development. By the end of the first decade, the field was becoming broader and more willing to engage both theoretical and ethical issues raised by the foundational work. In particular, the geographic scope began to reach well beyond North America, especially to Latin America, where archival resources and the opportunities for ethnographic research were plentiful, but also to areas such as Melanesia, where recent European contact allowed researchers to observe the early postcontact period directly and to address the associated theoretical questions with greater authority. Ethnohistory is thus an important example of a field of study that grew organically without an overarching figure or conscious plan but that nevertheless came to engage central issues in cultural and historical analysis.

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Food-Based Dietary Guidelines for Seafood Do Not Translate into Increased Long-Chain Omega-3 Levels in the Diet for U.S. Consumers

Foods ◽

10.3390/foods10081816 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (8) ◽

pp. 1816

Author(s):

Michael F. Tlusty

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Fatty Acids ◽

National Level ◽

The United States ◽

Dietary Guidelines ◽

Omega 3 Fatty Acids ◽

Omega 3 ◽

Complete Understanding ◽

The U.S ◽

Long Chain

Humans under-consume fish, especially species high in long-chain omega-3 fatty acids. Food-based dietary guidelines are one means for nations to encourage the consumption of healthy, nutritious food. Here, associations between dietary omega-3 consumption and food-based dietary guidelines, gross domestic product, the ranked price of fish, and the proportions of marine fish available at a national level were assessed. Minor associations were found between consumption and variables, except for food-based dietary guidelines, where calling out seafood in FBDGs did not associate with greater consumption. This relationship was explored for consumers in the United States, and it was observed that the predominant seafood they ate, shrimp, resulted in little benefit for dietary omega-3 consumption. Seafood is listed under the protein category in the U.S. Dietary Guidelines, and aggregating seafood under this category may limit a more complete understanding of its nutrient benefits beyond protein.

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