Handbook of the Life Course

By: Jeylan T. Mortimer (Editor), Michael J. Shanahan (Editor)

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Hardcover | 30 September 2003

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This comprehensive handbook provides an overview of key theoretical perspectives, concepts, and methodological approaches that, while applied to diverse phenomena, are united in their general approach to the study of lives across age phases. In surveying the wide terrain of life course studies with dual emphases on theory and empirical research, this important reference work presents probative concepts and methods and identifies promising avenues for future research.
The book includes sections on history and cross-national variability, normative structuring, movement through the life course, transitions in the life course, turning points, connections between life phases, methodology, and the future of the life course. A major reference work and a seminal text, it is essential reading for social scientists studying phases within the life course, social psychologists in sociology and psychology, demographers and academics in the field of the life course as well as students in thesedisciplines.

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"This weighty collection of 34 research studies comprehensively examines the 'life course,' defined as '...the age graded socially-embedded sequence of roles that connect the phases of life.' The text's strenghts: comprehensiveness and comparative and historical perspectives. Highly recommended. Reference collections, upper-division undergraduate and above." (S.D. Borchert, Lake Erie College, CHOICE)

"Many of the current luminaries or up-and -comers in life course research are included. On balance this is a terrific book. And at 728 pages is is brimming with insights, syntheses, and reference material. (Just for fun, it weights 3 lbs. 13 oz). This book is well worth the price and will be a welcome addition to any library." (Timothy J. Owens, Purdue University, Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews.)

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Preface
The Life Course Perspective
The Emergence and Development of Life Course Theory
Historical and Cross-National Variability in the Life Course
Generations, Cohorts, and Social Change
Stratified Incentives and Life Course Behaviors
Normative Structuring in the Life Course
Age Structuring and the Rhythm of the Life Course
Movement through the Life Course
Institutional Structuring of Life Course Trajectories
Parental Identification, Couple Commitment and Problem Solving Among Newlyweds
Family Context and Individual Well-Being: Patterns and Mechanisms in Life Course Perspective
Intergenerational Relations in Changing Times
Educational Transitions, Trajectories and Pathways
From Work Trajectories to Negotiated Careers: the Contingent Work Life Course
Government and the Life Course
Transitions
The First Grade Transition in Life Course Perspective
From Student to Worker
Midcourse: Navigating Retirement and a New Life Stage
Turning Point
Desistance from Crime over the Life Course
Desistance from Crime and Deviance as a Turning Point in the Life Course
Migration, Human Development, and the Lifecourse
Life Course Construction
Agency
Self-Agency and the Life Course
Connections between Early and Subsequent Life Phases
Connections between Chidhood and Adulthood
How and Why the Understanding of Developmental Continuity and Discontinuity is Important: The Sample Case of Long-term Consequences of Adolescent Substance Use
Adolescent work and the Early Socioeconomic Career
Methods and Interdisciplinary Approaches
Modes of Studying the Life Course
Distinguishing Age, Period, and Cohort Effects
Event History Models for Life Course Analysis
Panel Models for the Analysis of Change and Growth in Life Course Studies
Characterizing the Life Course as Role Configurations and Pathways: A Latent Structure Approach
Linking Life-Course and Life-Story: Social Change and the Narrative Study of Lives Over Time
Interdisciplinary Collaborations
Personality Trait Development In Adulthood
Biological Models of Behavior and the Life Course
Socioeconomic Status and Health Over the Life Course: Capital as a Unifying Concept
The Future of the Life Course
Toward a Global Geography of the Life Course: Challenges of Late Modernity for Life Course Theory
Reflections on the Future of the Life Course
Life Course Research: Achievements and Potential
Success and Challenge in Demographic Studies of the Life Course
The Future of the Life Course: Late Modernity and Life Course Risks
Future of the Life Course
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