Abstract
As I thought about this chapter and the occasion it presented to reflect on my years as a sociologist and social gerontologist, two trends significant to my career repeatedly surfaced. The first is the growing legitimization of aging as a topic of investigation, and the second is the development of a research infrastructure supporting the study of aging. I make no claim that these two represent the most significant developments. I single them out only because of their personal importance and because of my belief that they represent critical indicators of how the field of aging has evolved over the past 4 decades. In what follows, I will place these trends in an autobiographical context.KeywordsBaby BoomGeneral Social SurveyResearch InfrastructureReview SymposiumSocial GerontologistThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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