Beth Mabry

102L McElhaney Hall

Phone:  724 357-1289

Virginia Tech, Ph.D. (Sociology), 1999.

Intergenerational Relationships; The Self through the Life Course; Social Inequality and Emotions; Social Processes; Stress; and Well-Being.

Alpha Kappa Delta , International Sociological Honor Society, American Sociological Association, Gerontological Society of America, National Council on Family Relations, Sociologists for Women in Society, Southern Sociological Society.

Mabry, J. Beth and K. Jill Kiecolt.  2004.  “Anger in Black and White: Race, Alienation, and Anger.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior (under review).  

Mabry, J. Beth and Vern L. Bengtson. 2003. “Disengagement Theory” In Erdman Palmore, L. Branch, & Diane Harris (Eds.). The Concise Encyclopedia of Ageism. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press. 

Mabry, J. Beth, Roseann Giarrusso and Vern L. Bengtson.  2003  “Generations, the Life Course, and Family Change.”  Chapter 8 in Companion to the Sociology of Families edited by J. Scott, J. Treas, and M. Richards. Cambridge: Blackwell.

Bengtson, Vern L., Roseann Giarrusso, J. Beth Mabry and Merril Silverstein.  2002.  “Solidarity, Conflict, and Ambivalence: Complementary or Competing Perspectives on Intergenerational Relationships?” Journal of Marriage and Family, 64, 3. 

Bengtson, Vern L., Elisabeth O. Burgess, Tonya Parrott, and J. Beth Mabry.  2001.  “There is Nothing So Practical as Good Theory: Explanation and Understanding in Social Gerontology.” Chapter 1 (pp. 17-43) in Andersson, L. (Ed.)  Social Gerontology.  Lund, Sweden: Student Literature (Swedish language).

Giarrusso, Roseann, J. Beth Mabry and Vern L. Bengtson.  2001.  “The Aging Self in Social Contexts.”  Chapter 16 in Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, 5^th Ed. Edited by R. Binstock and L. K. George.  San Diego: Academic Press. 

Mabry, J. Beth and Vern L. Bengtson.  2001.  “Ageing and Popular Culture” (review of Andrew Blaikie).  Contemporary Sociology, 30: 22-24.

Kiecolt, K. Jill and J. Beth Mabry.  2000.  “Agency in Young Adulthood: Intentional Self-Change Among College Students.”  Pp 181-205 in Advances in Life Course Research, Vol. 5 edited by T. J. Owens.  Stamford, CT: JAI Press

Mabry, J. Beth.  1998.  “Pedagogical Variations and Student Outcomes in Service-Learning:  How Time, Contact, and Reflection Matter.”  Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 5: 32-47.  

Parker-Gwin, Rachel R. and J. Beth Mabry.  1998.  “Service-Learning as Pedagogy and Civic Education: Outcomes for Three Models.”  Teaching Sociology, 26: 276-91.

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