COVID-19 Vaccine Boundary Work: The Case of Facebook Comments in Southeast Georgia.

Although much research has considered the worldview of the vaccine hesitant, little attention has been given to the cultural conflict over what it means to be a person who takes vaccines. Through a qualitative content analysis of comments made on the Facebook pages of media outlets serving southeast Georgia, this analysis identifies both motives for rejecting the vaccine and outlines the symbolic boundaries that the vaccine hesitant have erected to distinguish themselves from vaccine advocates. The motives include perfunctory rejections, claims that the vaccine is ineffective, illegitimate, injurious in the short and long term, poisonous, infectious, particularly dangerous for children, and a component of conspiracy theories.

Women Gerontologists' Personal Experiences with Aging: Results From the Women in Gerontology Legacy Project.

The Women in Gerontology Legacy (WIGL) Project involved interviewing 46 older women gerontologists between 2014 and 2015. The current study focuses on the WIGL interview questions regarding the interactions between participants' experiences as gerontologists and their own aging. Emergent themes focus on the direction of influence: professional lives influencing personal lives, personal lives informing professional lives and mutuality between personal and professional lives.

Student journals: a means of assessing transformative learning in aging related courses.

In courses where topics are sensitive or even considered taboo for discussion, it can be difficult to assess students' deeper learning. In addition, incorporating a wide variety of students' values and beliefs, designing instructional strategies and including varied assessments adds to the difficulty. Journal entries or response notebooks can highlight reflection upon others' viewpoints, class readings, and additional materials.