TY - JOUR
T1 - “A Nowadays Disease”
T2 - HIV/AIDS and Social Change in a Rural South African Community
AU - Mojola, Sanyu A.
AU - Schatz, Enid
AU - Angotti, Nicole
AU - Houle, Brian
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research and field teams as well as the people of Agincourt for their long involvement with the AHDSS study. We thank Jill Williams for her significant contributions to the design, data collection, and intellectual underpinnings of the project. We gratefully acknowledge helpful feedback on various drafts of the article from participants at the African History and Anthropology and Gender and Sexuality Workshops at the University of Michigan, the Sociological Working Group on Aesthetics, Meaning, and Power Workshop at the University of Virginia, the African Studies Workshop at Harvard University, and the Institute of African Studies research seminar at Emory University, as well as the following individuals: jimi adams, Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Caroline Bledsoe, Jason Boardman, Lawrence Bobo, Jean Comaroff, John Comaroff, Matthew Desmond, Richard Jessor, Gloria Langat, Stefanie Mollborn, and Fred Pampel. We are also grateful for feedback, comments, and critiques from the HIV40 research group (including Jane Menken, Samuel Clark, F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé, and Chodziwadziwa Kabudula) as well as participants in several sociology, demography, and African studies seminars and workshops in the United States and South Africa where the paper was presented. We thank Vusimusi G. Dlamini for helpful comments on Shangaan culture and translations and Katie Krywokulski for helpful comments and copyediting assistance. We are grateful for funding support from the National Institute on Aging (R01 AG049634) HIV after 40 in Rural South Africa: Aging in the Context of an HIV epidemic (PI Sanyu Mojola); the National Institutes of Health (R24 AG032112-05) Partnership for Social Science AIDS Research in South Africa’s Era of ART Rollout (PI Jane Menken); the University of Colorado Innovative Seed Grant (PI Sanyu Mojola), and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation 2009–4060 African Population Research and Training Program (PI Jane Menken). The MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit and Agincourt Health and Socio-Demographic Surveillance System, a node of the South African Population Research Infrastructure Network (SAPRIN), is supported by the Department of Science and Innovation, the University of the Witwatersrand, and the Medical Research Council, South Africa, and previously the Wellcome Trust, UK (grants 058893/Z/99/A; 069683/Z/02/Z; 085477/Z/08/Z; 085477/B/08/Z). This article is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH. Direct correspondence to Sanyu A. Mojola, Department of Sociology/Office of Population Research, Princeton University, Wallace Hall, Princeton, New Jersey 08544. E-mail: smojola@princeton.edu
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PY - 2021/11
Y1 - 2021/11
N2 - Why do some people adapt successfully to change while others do not? We examine this question in the context of a severe HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa, where adapting (or not) to social change has borne life and death consequences. Applying an age-period-cohort lens to the analysis of qualitative life history interviews among middle-aged and older adults, we consider the role of the life course and gendered sexuality in informing Africans’ strategies of action, or inaction, and in differentially driving and stalling change in each cohort in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Our study illuminates the unique challenges of adapting to social change that result from dynamic interactions among aging, prevailing social structures, and a cohort’s sociohistorical orientation to a new period.
AB - Why do some people adapt successfully to change while others do not? We examine this question in the context of a severe HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa, where adapting (or not) to social change has borne life and death consequences. Applying an age-period-cohort lens to the analysis of qualitative life history interviews among middle-aged and older adults, we consider the role of the life course and gendered sexuality in informing Africans’ strategies of action, or inaction, and in differentially driving and stalling change in each cohort in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Our study illuminates the unique challenges of adapting to social change that result from dynamic interactions among aging, prevailing social structures, and a cohort’s sociohistorical orientation to a new period.
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U2 - 10.1086/718234
DO - 10.1086/718234
M3 - Article
C2 - 35967824
AN - SCOPUS:85124100982
SN - 0002-9602
VL - 127
SP - 950
EP - 1000
JO - American Journal of Sociology
JF - American Journal of Sociology
IS - 3
ER -