Angela M. O'Rand | Scholars@Duke

Angela M. O'Rand
Professor Emeritus of Sociology

My major research interests focus on patterns of inequality across the life span, with a special interest in the temporal diversity of life transitions, their consequences for later life, and the impact of institutions on these transitions over time. Over thirty-three years I have examined workplace policies related to wage and benefit structures and the impact of workers' educational, work and family histories on wage and fringe benefit outcomes. The changing employment relationship and the re-organization of retirement institutions (especially pensions) have been a central concern of my research. Most recently, I have turned to the cumulative impact of economic adversity on midlife health risks, such as heart attack. This research has uncovered the persistent effects of childhood adversity on midlife heart attack risk, especially among women. I am expanding this focus over the next few years to examine the more general question of "life course risks" and increased economic and social inequalities.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2016
Director of the Center for Population Health and Aging, Center for Population Health & Aging, Duke Population Research Institute 2014
Director of the Duke University Population Research Institute, Duke Population Research Institute, Social Science Research Institute 2014

Contact Information

417 Chapel Hill Drive, Campus Box 90088, Durham, NC 27708
Box 90088, 417 Chapel Drive, Durham, NC 27708
aorand@soc.duke.edu (919) 660-5629
Curriculum Vita

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Temple University 1974
Duke Appointment History
- Professor of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1999 - 2016
- Faculty Research Scholar of DuPRI's Center for Population Health & Aging, Center for Population Health & Aging, Duke Population Research Institute 2011 - 2016
- Faculty Research Scholar of DuPRI's Population Research Center, Duke Population Research Center, Duke Population Research Institute 2014 - 2016
- Dean of the Social Sciences, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Duke University 2009 - 2014
- Interim Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies, African and African American Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2010
- Chair, Department of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2008 - 2009
- Associate Professor with Tenure, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1987 - 1999
- Assistant Professor, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1979 - 1987
Recognition
Awards & Honors
- Aging and the Life Course Section/Matilda White Riley Distinguished Scholar Award. American Sociological Association. 2008
Expertise
Global Scholarship
- Expertise
  - United States of America (Country)
- Research
Research
Selected Grants
- Behavioral and Physiology in Aging awarded by National Institutes of Health 2015 - 2020
- Center for Population Health and Aging awarded by National Institutes of Health 2009 - 2019
- SANDERS Admin Supp: Using Response Time Data from Social Science Surveys to Model Cognition and Early Alzheimer's Disease awarded by National Institutes of Health 2009 - 2019
- Behavior And Physiology In Aging awarded by National Institutes of Health 1999 - 2015
- Childhood Exposures and Adulthood Cardiovascular Disease awarded by National Institutes of Health 2006 - 2007
- The Determinants and Consequences of Midlife Education awarded by National Science Foundation 1998 - 2000
- (93-0332) Joint Retirement in Two-Worker Couples awarded by National Institutes of Health 1992 - 1993
- (89-0380) Effects of Competing Social Interest Groups on the Development of Contraceptive Technology awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1989
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Hughes, ME, and O'Rand, AM. The Lives and Times of the Baby Boom (Census 2000 monograph). New York: Russell Sage/Population Reference Bureau, 2004.
  - O'Rand, AM, and Henretta, JC. Age and Inequality: Diverse Pathways Through Later Life. Westview Press, 1998.
  - Osterbind, CC, and O'rand, AM. Older People in Florida: A Statistical Abstract 1978. Edited by UPO Florida. University Presses of Florida, 1976.
  - O'Rand, AM, and Dupre, M. Financial literacy, life course risks and future time horizons in an aging population (In preparation). .
- Book Reviews
  - O'Rand, AM. "The Transition to Adulthood in the Vietnam Era by Timothy Owens." Social Forces 84 (2006): 2365-2367.
  - O'Rand, AM. "Women in Science: Career Processes and Outcomes by Yu Xie and Kimberlee A. Shaumann." Social Forces 82 (2004): 1669-1671.
  - O'Rand, AM. "Ending a Career in the Auto Industry (Plenum, 1996) by Melissa A. Hardy, Lawrence Hazelrigg and Jill Quadagno." American Journal of Sociology 103 (1998): 1122-1124.
  - O'Rand, AM. "The Social Networks of Older People: A Cross-National Analysis (Praeger, 1996)." Edited by H Litwin. Contemporary Gerontology 4 (1998): 34-35.
  - O'Rand, AM. "What do we know and when do we know it? A self-exemplifying tale of gender politics and the popular production of knowledge." Annual Review of Conflict Knowledge and Conflict Resolution 23 (1993): 285-290.
  - O'Rand, AM. "Minerva’s owl flies at dusk." The Gerontologist 29 (1989): 835-837.
  - O'Rand, AM. "Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Volume 5 (JAI Press, 1986) edited by R.V. Robinson." Contemporary Sociology (1988).
  - O'Rand, AM. "Later Life: The Social Psychology of Aging (Sage 1986) edited by V.W. Marshall." Social Forces (1986).
  - O'Rand, AM. "Older Women: Issues and Prospects (Lexington Books, 1983) edited by Elizabeth W. Markson." Social Forces (1984): 606-608.
  - O'Rand, AM. "Equal Employment Policy for Women (Temple University Press, 1980) by R.S. Ratner." Sociology of Work and Occupations (1983): 377-378.
  - O'Rand, AM. "Chemistry Transformed: The Paradigmatic Shift from Phlogiston to Oxygen (Ablex Publishing, 1978) by H. Gilman McCann." Edited by R Allen. The Eighteenth Century (1983).
  - O'Rand, AM. "The Structure of the Social Sciences: A Philosophical Introduction (Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1974) by Michael Lesnoff." American Journal of Sociology (1975): 226-227.
- Book Sections
  - O'Rand, AM. "The devolution of risk and the changing life course (reprint)." In Researching Social Gerontology, edited by M Cutchin, C Kemp, and V Marshall. Sage Publishers, 2013.
  - Remle, RC, and O'Rand, AM. "Intergenerational Solidarity in Blended Families: The Inequality of Financial Transfers to Adult Children and Stepchildren." In Kinship and Cohort in an Aging Society: From Generation to Generation: Continuity and Change in Aging Families, edited by M Silverstein, 31-58. Johns Hopkins University, 2013.
  - O'Rand, AM. "The Changing Life Course." In The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Sociology, 197-211. February 2, 2012. Full Text
  - O'Rand, AM. "The Devolution of Risk and the Changing Life Course." In The New Blackwell Companion to Sociology, edited by G Ritzer. Blackwell, 2011.
  - O'Rand, AM, Isaacs, K, and Roth, L. "Age and Inequality in Global Context." In The International Handbook of Social Gerontology, edited by WD Dannefer and CR Phillipson, 127-136. Sage, 2009.
  - O'Rand, AM, and Ebel, D. "Private Pensions in International Perspective." In International Handbook of Population Aging, edited by PU ed, 429-444. Springer-Verlag, 2009.
  - O'Rand, AM. "Cumulative processes in the life course." In The Craft of Life Course Research, edited by J Glen H Elder and JZ Giele, 121-140. Guilford, 2009.
  - O'Rand, AM, and Glen H Elder, J. "Changing Societies and Changing Lives." In Within the Social World: Essays in Social Psychology, edited by J Chin and C Jacobson, 202-216. Longman, 2008.
  - O'Rand, AM. "Stratification and the life course: Life course capital, life course risks, and social inequality." In Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, 145-162. December 1, 2006. Full Text
  - O'Rand, AM. "Theories of aging and the life course." In Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Blackwell Publishing, 2006.
  - O'rand, AM. "Retirement." In Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Blackwell Publishing, 2006.
  - O'Rand, AM. "When old age begins: Implications for health, work and retirement." In Age-Based Public Policy in the 21st Century, edited by RB Hudson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
  - O'Rand, AM. "The future of the life course: Late modernity and life course risks." In Handbook of the Life Course, edited by JT Mortimer and M Shanahan, 693-701. New York: Plenum, 2003.
  - O Rand, AM. "Stratification and the life course: the forms of life course capital and their interrelationships." In Handbook on Aging and the Social Sciences, edited by RB Binstock and LK George, 197-216. New York: Academic Press, 2001.
  - O'Rand, AM. "Retirement patterns." In The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Aging, edited by DJ Ekerdt. New York: Macmillan, 2001.
  - O'Rand, AM. "Perpetuating women’s disadvantage: trends in U.S. private pensions, 1976-1995." In Women, Work and Pensions: International Issues and Prospects, edited by J Ginn, S Arber, and D Street, 230-256. Buckingham UK: Open University Press, 2001.
  - O Rand, AM. "Women: their changing status (pp. 1061); Gender (pp. 414-415); and The employee income retirement security act (ERISA) (pp. 330-331)." In The Encyclopedia of Aging, edited by GL Maddox. New York: Springer, 2000.
  - O Rand, AM. "Risk, rationality and modernity: Social policy and the aging self." In Societal Impact on the Aging Self, edited by KW Schaie and J Hendricks, 225-249. Springer, 2000.
  - O Rand, AM. "Social inequality." In The Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by EF Borgatta and ML Borgatta, 2690-2695. MacMillan, 2000.
  - O Rand, AM, and Campbell, RT. "On re-establishing the phenomenon and specifying ignorance: research design and theory development in aging." In Handbook of Theories on Aging, edited by V Bengtson and KW Schaie, 59-78. Springer, 1999.
  - Elman, C, and Rand, AMO. "Midlife entry into vocational training: a mobility model." In Social Science Research, 128-158. 1998.
  - O'Rand, AM. "Structuration and individualization: the life course as a continuous multi-level process." In Generating Social Stratification, edited by AC Kerckhoff, 3-16. Westview Press, 1996.
  - O'Rand, AM. "Context, selection and agency in the life course: linking social structure and biography." In Society and Biography: Interrelationships Between Social Structure, Institutions, and the Life Course, edited by A Weymann and WR Heinz, 67-81. Deutscher Studien Verlag, 1996.
  - O'Rand, AM. "Women and retirement." In Encyclopedia of Women and Work, 25-27. Garland Press, 1996.
  - Elder, J, and O'Rand, AM. "Adult lives in a changing society." In Sociological Perspectives on Social Psychology, edited by K Cook, G Fine, and J House, 452-475. 1995.
  - O Rand, AM. "Women: their changing status; Gender; and The employee income retirement security act (ERISA)." In The Encyclopedia of Aging, edited by GL Maddox, 974-977; 392-393; and 307-308-974-977; 392-393; and 307-308. Springer, 1995.
  - O Rand, AM. "The cumulative stratification of the life course." In Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, edited by R Binstock and LK George, 188-207. Academic Press, 1995.
  - O'Rand, AM, and Rix, S. "Equal employment opportunity commission (EEOC)." In The Encyclopedia of Aging, edited by GL Maddox, 327-328. Springer, 1995.
  - O'Rand, AM, Henretta, JC, and Krecker, ML. "Family pathways to retirement." In Family Retirement, edited by M Szinovacz, 81-98. Sage, 1992.
  - O'Rand, AM. "Mathematizing social science in the 1950’s: the early development and diffusion of game theory in the social sciences." In History of Political Economy, 177-204. 1992.
  - O'Rand, AM. "Social inequality." In The Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by EF Borgatta and ML Borgatta, 1850-1856. MacMillan, 1992.
  - O'Rand, AM. "Stratification and the life course." In The Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, edited by R Binstock and LK George, 130-148. New York: Academic Press, 1990.
  - O'Rand, AM. "Scientific thought style and the construction of gender inequality." In Women and the Academy: Feminist Reconstruction of Knowledge, edited by JO Barr, 103-120. University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.
  - O Rand, AM. "Gender (p. 271); Sex Roles (pp. 604-606); Women: Their Changing Status (pp. 697-699); Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) (p. 24) and Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) (pp. 205-206)." In The Encyclopedia of Aging, edited by GL Maddox. New York: Springer, 1987.
  - O'Rand, AM. "Women." In Handbook on the Aged in the U.S, edited by E Palmore, 125-142. Greenwood Press, 1984.
  - O Rand, AM. "Socioeconomic status and poverty." In Research Instruments in Social Gerontology, edited by DJ Mangen and WA Peterson, 281-341. University of Minnesota Press, 1982.
  - O'Rand, AM, and Henretta, JC. "Midlife work history and retirement income." In Women's Retirement: Policy Implications of Recent Research, edited by M Szinovacz, 25-44. Sage Publications, 1982.
  - von Mering, O, and Rand, AM. "Illness and the organization of health care: a sociocultural perspective." In Dimensions of Aging, Culture and Health, edited by CL Fry and CL Fry, 255-270. New Yorrk: J.F. Bergin Publishers, 1981.
  - O'Rand, AM, and Bostic, A. "Lags and leaps: the dynamics of demography, Economy and Policy and their Implications for Life Course Research (In preparation)." In The Handbook of the Life Course, edited by M Shanahan, J Mortimer, and M Johnson. Springer.
  - O'Rand, AM. "Theories of aging and inequality: new research directions (In preparation)." In Handbook of Theories of Aging, edited by VL Bengtson and R Settersten..
  - O'Rand, AM. "Aging and the life course (In preparation)." In Emerging Trends in the Behavioral and Social Sciences, edited by RA Scott and SM Kosslyn. Wiley Online.
- Conference Papers
  - Shuey, KM, and O'Rand, AM. "Changing demographics and new pension risks." May 2006. Full Text Link to Item
  - Elman, C, and O'Rand, AM. "The race is to the swift: Socioeconomic origins, adult education, and wage attainment." July 2004. Full Text Link to Item
- Journal Articles
  - Brown, TH, O'Rand, AM, and Adkins, DE. "Race-ethnicity and health trajectories: tests of three hypotheses across multiple groups and health outcomes." Journal of health and social behavior 53, no. 3 (September 2012): 359-377. Full Text
  - O'Rand, AM. "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose: latest words on "life words"." J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 67, no. 2 (March 2012): 235-237. Full Text Link to Item
  - O'rand, AM, and Hamil-Luker, J. "Late employment careers, transitions to retirement, and retirement income in the united states." (December 1, 2011): 283-307. (Chapter)
  - O'Rand, AM. "2010 SSS Presidential Address: The Devolution of Risk and the Changing Life Course in the United States." SOCIAL FORCES 90, no. 1 (September 2011): 1-16. Full Text Link to Item
  - Oksuzyan, A, Crimmins, E, Saito, Y, O'Rand, A, Vaupel, JW, and Christensen, K. "Cross-national comparison of sex differences in health and mortality in Denmark, Japan and the US." Eur J Epidemiol 25, no. 7 (July 2010): 471-480. Full Text Open Access Copy Link to Item
  - O'Rand, AM, Hamil-Luker, J, and Elman, C. "Childhood adversity, educational trajectories, and self-reported health in later life among US women and men at the turn of the century." ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ERZIEHUNGSWISSENSCHAFT 12, no. 3 (September 2009): 409-436. Full Text Link to Item
  - Elman, C, and O'Rand, AM. "The effects of social origins, life events, and institutional sorting on adults' school transitions." SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH 36, no. 3 (September 2007): 1276-1299. Full Text Link to Item
  - O'Rand, AM, and Shuey, KM. "Gender and the devolution of pension risks in the US." CURRENT SOCIOLOGY 55, no. 2 (March 2007): 287-304. Full Text Link to Item
  - Hamil-Luker, J, and O'Rand, AM. "Gender Differences in the Link between Childhood Socioeconomic Conditions and Heart Attack Risk in Adulthood." Demography 44, no. 1 (2007): 137-158. Full Text Link to Item
  - O'Rand, AM. "From adolescence to adulthood in the Vietnam era." SOCIAL FORCES 84, no. 4 (June 2006): 2365-2367. Full Text Link to Item
  - O'Rand, AM, and Shuey, K. "Old and New Risks for Workers." Research on Aging 28 (2006): 317-340.
  - O Rand, AM, and Hamil-Luker, J. "“Processes of cumulative adversity linking childhood disadvantage toincreased risk of heart attack across the life course.”." Journal of Gerontology—Social Sciences 60B (October 2005): 117-124. (Academic Article)
  - O'Rand, AM. "Women in science: Career processes and outcomes." SOCIAL FORCES 82, no. 4 (June 2004): 1669-1671. Full Text Link to Item
  - Elman, C, and O'Rand, AM. "The race is to the swift: socioeconomic origins, adult education and mid-life economic attainment." American Journal of Sociology 110 (2004).
  - Shuey, KM, and O'Rand, AM. "New risks for workers: Pensions, labor markets, and gender." ANNUAL REVIEW OF SOCIOLOGY 30 (2004): 453-477. Full Text Link to Item
  - O'Rand, AM. "Cumulative Advantage Theory in Aging Research." Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics Special Issue (2003): 14-30.
  - Elman, C, and O'Rand, AM. "Perceived job insecurity and entry into work-related education and training among adult workers." SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH 31, no. 1 (March 2002): 49-76. Full Text Link to Item
  - O'Rand, AM, and Farkas, J. "Couples’ Retirement Timing in the US in the 1990s: The impact of market and family role demands on joint and sequential work exits." International Journal of Sociology 32 (2002): 11-29.
  - Elman, C, and O'Rand, AM. "Midlife work pathways and educational entry." RESEARCH ON AGING 20, no. 4 (July 1998): 475-505. Full Text Link to Item
  - Farkas, JI, and O'Rand, AM. "The pension mix for women in middle and late life: The changing employment relationship." SOCIAL FORCES 76, no. 3 (March 1998): 1007-1032. Full Text Link to Item
  - Suhomlinova, O, and O'Rand, AM. "Economic independence, economic status, and empty nest in midlife marital disruption." JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY 60, no. 1 (February 1998): 219-231. Link to Item
  - Elman, C, and Rand, AMO. "Midlife entry into vocational training: a mobility model." 27 (1998): 128-158.
  - O'Rand, AM. "Observations on the practice of life course research." Edited by J Giele and J G H Elder. Methods of Life Course Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches (1998): 52-74.
  - O'Rand, AM. "Ending a career in the auto industry: "30 and out."." AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY 103, no. 4 (January 1998): 1122-1124. Full Text Link to Item
  - O'Rand, AM. "New editor's statement." RESEARCH ON AGING 20, no. 1 (January 1998): 3-5. Full Text Link to Item
  - O'Rand, AM. "The precious and the precocious: understanding cumulative disadvantage and cumulative advantage over the life course." Gerontologist 36, no. 2 (April 1996): 230-238. Link to Item
  - Henretta, JC, O'Rand, AM, and Chan, C. "Joint role investments and synchronization of retirement: a sequential approach to couples’ retirement timing." Social Forces 71 (1993): 981-1000.
  - Henretta, JC, O'Rand, AM, and Chan, C. "Gender differences in employment after spouse’s retirement." Research on Aging (1993): 148-169.
  - O'Rand, AM, and Agree, E. "Kin reciprocities, the familial corporation and other moral economies: workplace, family and kin in the modern global context." 13 (1993): 75-95.
  - O'Rand, AM, and Agree, E. "Kin reciprocities, the familial corporation and other moral economies: workplace, family and kin in the modern global context." Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics 13 (1993): 75-95.
  - Henretta, JC, Chan, CG, and O'Rand, AM. "Retirement reason versus retirement process: examining the reasons for retirement typology." Journal of Gerontology 47 (1992): 51-57.
  - Henretta, JC, Chan, CG, and O'Rand, AM. "Retirement reason versus retirement process: examining the reasons for retirement typology." J Gerontol 47, no. 1 (January 1992): S1-S7. Link to Item
  - Brazy, JE, Eckerman, CO, Oehler, JM, Goldstein, RF, and O'Rand, AM. "Nursery Neurobiologic Risk Score: important factor in predicting outcome in very low birth weight infants." J Pediatr 118, no. 5 (May 1991): 783-792. Link to Item
  - Krecker, ML, and O'Rand, AM. "Contested milieux: Small firms, unionization, and the provision of protective structures." Sociological Forum 6, no. 1 (March 1, 1991): 93-117. Full Text
  - O'Rand, AM, and Krecker, ML. "Concepts of the ’life cycle’: their history, meanings, and uses in the social sciences." Annual Review of Sociology 16 (1990): 241-263.
  - Campbell, RT, and O'Rand, AM. "Settings and sequences: the heuristics of aging research." Edited by JE Birren and V Bengtson. Emergent Theories of Aging: Psychological and Social Perspectives on Time, Self and Society (1988): 58-82.
  - DeViney, S, and O'Rand, AM. "Gender-cohort succession and retirement among older men and women: 1951-1984." Sociological Quarterly (1988): 47-61.
  - O'Rand, AM. "Convergence, institutionalization, and bifurcation: gender and the pension acquisition process." Annu Rev Gerontol Geriatr 8 (1988): 132-155. (Review) Link to Item
  - O'Rand, AM, and MacLean, VM. "Labor markets, pension rule structure and retirement benefit promise for long term employees." Social Forces 65 (September 1986): 224-240.
  - O'Rand, AM. "Knowledge form and scientific community: early experimental biology and the marine biological laboratory." Edited by G Bohme and N Stehr. The Knowledge Society, Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook 10 (1986): 183-202.
  - O'Rand, AM. "The hidden payroll: Employee benefits and the structure of workplace inequality." Sociological Forum 1, no. 4 (1986): 657-683. Full Text
  - O'Rand, AM, and Landerman, R. "Women's and men's retirement income status. Early family role effects." Res Aging 6, no. 1 (March 1984): 25-44. Full Text Link to Item
  - Velsor, V, and O'Rand, AM. "Family life cycle, work career patterns and women’s wages at midlife." Journal of Marriage and the Family 46 (1984): 365-373.
  - Henretta, JC, and O'Rand, AM. "Joint retirement in the dual worker family." Social Forces 62 (1983): 504-520.
  - O'Rand, AM. "Loss of work role and subjective health assessment in later life among men and unmarried women." Edited by A Kerckhoff. Research in the Sociology of Education and Socialization 5 (1983): 265-286.
  - O'Rand, AM, and Henretta, JC. "Women at middle-age: developmental transitions." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 464 (November 1982): 57-65.
  - O Rand, AM, and Henretta, JC. "Delayed career entry, industrial pension structure and early retirement in a cohort of unmarried women." American Sociological Review 47 (June 1982): 365-373. (Academic Article)
  - Henretta, JC, and O'Rand, AM. "Labor-force participation of older married women." Soc Secur Bull 43, no. 8 (August 1980): 10-16. Link to Item
  - O'Rand, AM. "Professional standing and peer consultation status among biological scientists at a summer research laboratory." Social Forces 55 (June 1977): 921-37.
  - O Rand, AM, and Ellis, RA. "Social class and social time perspective." Social Forces 53 (September 1974): 53-62. (Academic Article)
- Reports
  - O Rand, AM. The Vulnerable Majority: Older Women in Transition. 1994.
  - O Rand, AM. Income maintenance in retirement and the need to rethink family policy. 1983.
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