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The Life Course Reader: Individuals and Societies Across Time
ISBN: 9783593388052 | 3593388057
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Pub. Date: 6/15/2009
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The course of human lives in Western society is inescapably shaped by political, cultural, and economic factors. Changes in these spheres inevitably lead to changes in our conceptions of everything from childhood and adulthood to family structures and living arrangements. The nineteen articles collected inThe Life Course Readeroffer a range of both theoretical and empirical studies of changing conceptions of the life course. Drawing on data from North America and Europe, theReaderwill be indispensable for anyone studying human development and the twenty-first century family.
| Preface | p. 11 |
| Fundamental Conceptual Frameworks | |
| General Introduction | p. 15 |
| Life Course and Social Structure | p. 31 |
| The World We Forgot: A Historical Review of the Life Course | p. 64 |
| Perspectives on the Life Course | p. 91 |
| Life Course Policy. The State and Its Institutions | |
| Life Course Policy. The State and Its Institutions. Introduction to Section II | p.... MORE |
| The State and the Life Course | p. 121 |
| The Life Course, Institutions, and Life Course Policy | p. 139 |
| The Life-Course Regime: Ambiguities Between Interrelatedness and Individualization | p. 159 |
| Toward a Theory of Life Course Institutionalization | p. 178 |
| Inequality, Markets, and the Life Course | |
| Inequality, Markets, and the Life Course. Introduction to Section III | p. 203 |
| New Routes to Employment: Integration and Exclusion | p. 213 |
| Occupational Careers Under Different Welfare Regimes: West Germany, Great Britain and Sweden | p. 234 |
| A Life-Course Perspective on Social Exclusion and Poverty | p. 252 |
| Comparing Paths of Transition: Employment Opportunities and Earnings in East Germany and Poland During the First Ten Years of the Transformation Process | p. 270 |
| Linked Lives, Families, and Intergenerational Relations | |
| Linked Lives, Families, and Intergenerational Relations. Introduction to Section IV | p. 303 |
| From Youth to Adulthood: Understanding Changing Patterns of Family Formation From a Life Course Perspective | p. 311 |
| Theoretical Perspectives on Couples' Careers | p. 338 |
| Linked Lives: A Transgenerational Approach to Resilience | p. 370 |
| Interdependent Lives and Relationships in Changing Times: A Life-Course View of Families and Aging | p. 397 |
| Transitions: Biography and Agency | |
| Transitions: Biography and Agency. Introduction to Section V | p. 421 |
| Adult Lives in a Changing Society | p. 430 |
| Structure, Agency, and the Space Between: On the Challenges and Contradictions of a Blended View of the Life Course | p. 456 |
| Status Passages as Micro-Macro Linkages in Life Course Research | p. 473 |
| Clocking Out: Temporal Patterning of Retirement | p. 487 |
| References | p. 521 |
| Editors | p. 591 |
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Walter R. Heinz is professor emeritus of sociology and psychology at the University of Bremen. Johannes Huinink is professor of sociology at the University of Bremen. Ansgar Weymann is professor of sociology and director of the Institute for Empirical and Applied Sociology.
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