The life course reader : individuals and societies across time /

The life course reader : individuals and societies across time /

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Imprint:Frankfurt : New York : Campus Verlag, c2009.
Description:589 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Campus reader
Campus reader.
Subject:
Life cycle, Human -- Social aspects.
Families.
Sociology.
Developmental psychology.
Developmental psychology.
Families.
Life cycle, Human -- Social aspects.
Sociology.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8007314
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Other authors / contributors:Heinz, Walter R.
Huinink, Johannes.
Weymann, Ansgar, 1945-
Swader, Christopher.
ISBN:9783593388052
3593388057
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [521]-589).
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Section I. Fundamental Conceptual Frameworks
  • 1. General Introduction
  • 2. Life Course and Social Structure
  • 3. The World We Forgot: A Historical Review of the Life Course
  • 4. Perspectives on the Life Course
  • Section II. Life Course Policy. The State and Its Institutions
  • 5. Life Course Policy. The State and Its Institutions. Introduction to Section II
  • 6. The State and the Life Course
  • 7. The Life Course, Institutions, and Life Course Policy
  • 8. The Life-Course Regime: Ambiguities Between Interrelatedness and Individualization
  • 9. Toward a Theory of Life Course Institutionalization
  • Section III. Inequality, Markets, and the Life Course
  • 10. Inequality, Markets, and the Life Course. Introduction to Section III
  • 11. New Routes to Employment: Integration and Exclusion
  • 12. Occupational Careers Under Different Welfare Regimes: West Germany, Great Britain and Sweden
  • 13. A Life-Course Perspective on Social Exclusion and Poverty
  • 14. Comparing Paths of Transition: Employment Opportunities and Earnings in East Germany and Poland During the First Ten Years of the Transformation Process
  • Section IV. Linked Lives, Families, and Intergenerational Relations
  • 15. Linked Lives, Families, and Intergenerational Relations. Introduction to Section IV
  • 16. From Youth to Adulthood: Understanding Changing Patterns of Family Formation From a Life Course Perspective
  • 17. Theoretical Perspectives on Couples' Careers
  • 18. Linked Lives: A Transgenerational Approach to Resilience
  • 19. Interdependent Lives and Relationships in Changing Times: A Life-Course View of Families and Aging
  • Section V. Transitions: Biography and Agency
  • 20. Transitions: Biography and Agency. Introduction to Section V
  • 21. Adult Lives in a Changing Society
  • 22. Structure, Agency, and the Space Between: On the Challenges and Contradictions of a Blended View of the Life Course
  • 23. Status Passages as Micro-Macro Linkages in Life Course Research
  • 24. Clocking Out: Temporal Patterning of Retirement
  • References
  • Editors

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