Social Dynamics Of The Life Course

Author : Walter R. Heinz,Victor W. Marshall
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0202368963

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In the last two decades, research on the life course has successfully combined and integrated different and rather isolated fields of social concerns such as: the labor market, family solidarity, education, employment, retirement, and social policy. It has also developed a special focus on crucial problems of sociological research, which includes the understanding of micromacro phenomena, the dynamics of social change, and international comparisons. Contributors to this volume take an international, comparative approach in applying the life course theoretical framework to issues of work and career. Life course research focuses on the relationship between institutions and individuals across the life span and illuminates the impact of modernization on the shaping of biographies. Industrial service societies are characterized by historically new contingencies of living arrangements and biographies. These contingencies differ according to the extent to which life course patterns are regulated by social institutions. In the continental European context, institutional frameworks continue to define the timing and sequencing of transitions across the life course. In less regulated market societies, like the United States and Great Britain, biographies and living arrangements are shaped more by the interaction of markets, social networks, and individual decisions. In active welfare states, institutional resources and rules continue to mediate the effects of social change on the life course. What the editors and contributors to this fine compendium anticipate is a change on the cultural level toward more equality. This trend supports young people, and women in particular, in their expectations concerning an egalitarian relationship. This expectation is not taken for granted from the point of view of the male partner, but has to be negotiated in decisionmaking processes as an issue that concerns the couple as a unit. Thus, the way in which people interact is profoundly impacted by the values and goals of equity demands. Walter R. Heinz is professor of sociology and social psychology, and director, Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Bremen. Victor W. Marshall is professor of sociology, and director of the Institute on Aging, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Carolina.

Author : Walter R. Heinz,Victor W. Marshall
Publisher : Aldine De Gruyter
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0202306941

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Social Dynamics of the Life Course by Walter R. Heinz,Victor W. Marshall Pdf

In the last two decades, research on the life course has successfully combined and integrated different and rather isolated fields of social concerns such as: the labor market, family solidarity, education, employment, retirement, and social policy. It has also developed a special focus on crucial problems of sociological research, which includes the understanding of micromacro phenomena, the dynamics of social change, and international comparisons. Contributors to this volume take an international, comparative approach in applying the life course theoretical framework to issues of work and career. Life course research focuses on the relationship between institutions and individuals across the life span and illuminates the impact of moderniation on the shaping of biographies. Industrial service societies are characteried by historically new contingencies of living arrangements and biographies. These contingencies differ according to the extent to which life course patterns are regulated by social institutions. In the continental European context, institutional frameworks continue to define the timing and sequencing of transitions across the life course. In less regulated market societies, like the United States and Great Britain, biographies and living arrangements are shaped more by the interaction of markets, social networks, and individual decisions. In active welfare states, institutional resources and rules continue to mediate the effects of social change on the life course. What the editors and contributors to this fine compendium anticipate is a change on the cultural level toward more equality. This trend supports young people, and women in particular, in their expectations concerning an egalitarian relationship. This expectation is not taken for granted from the point of view of the male partner, but has to be negotiated in decisionmaking processes as an issue that concerns the couple as a unit. Thus, the way in which people interact is profoundly impacted by the values and goals of equity demands. Walter R. Hein is professor of sociology and social psychology, and director, Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Bremen. Victor W. Marshall is professor of sociology, and director of the Institute on Aging, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Carolina.

Author : Walter R. Heinz,Victor W. Marshall
Publisher : Aldine
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0202306941

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Social Dynamics of the Life Course by Walter R. Heinz,Victor W. Marshall Pdf

In the last two decades, research on the life course has successfully combined and integrated different and rather isolated fields of social concerns such as: the labor market, family solidarity, education, employment, retirement, and social policy. It has also developed a special focus on crucial problems of sociological research, which includes the understanding of micromacro phenomena, the dynamics of social change, and international comparisons. Contributors to this volume take an international, comparative approach in applying the life course theoretical framework to issues of work and career. Life course research focuses on the relationship between institutions and individuals across the life span and illuminates the impact of modernization on the shaping of biographies. Industrial service societies are characterized by historically new contingencies of living arrangements and biographies. These contingencies differ according to the extent to which life course patterns are regulated by social institutions. In the continental European context, institutional frameworks continue to define the timing and sequencing of transitions across the life course. In less regulated market societies, like the United States and Great Britain, biographies and living arrangements are shaped more by the interaction of markets, social networks, and individual decisions. In active welfare states, institutional resources and rules continue to mediate the effects of social change on the life course. What the editors and contributors to this fine compendium anticipate is a change on the cultural level toward more equality. This trend supports young people, and women in particular, in their expectations concerning an egalitarian relationship. This expectation is not taken for granted from the point of view of the male partner, but has to be negotiated in decisionmaking processes as an issue that concerns the couple as a unit. Thus, the way in which people interact is profoundly impacted by the values and goals of equity demands. Walter R. Heinz is professor of sociology and social psychology, and director, Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Bremen. Victor W. Marshall is professor of sociology, and director of the Institute on Aging, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Carolina.

Author : Jeylan T. Mortimer,Michael J. Shanahan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780306482472

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Handbook of the Life Course by Jeylan T. Mortimer,Michael J. Shanahan Pdf

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.

Author : James A. Holstein,Jaber F. Gubrium
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1882289676

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Constructing the Life Course by James A. Holstein,Jaber F. Gubrium Pdf

Constructing the Life Course offers a social constructionist perspective on personal experience through time. The text shows the variety of ways people use life course imagery in their everyday lives and makes a useful addition to family studies or gerontology courses.

Author : Janeen Baxter,Jack Lam,Jenny Povey,Rennie Lee,Stephen R. Zubrick
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031122248

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Family Dynamics over the Life Course by Janeen Baxter,Jack Lam,Jenny Povey,Rennie Lee,Stephen R. Zubrick Pdf

This open access book examines how families and other social institutions interact to shape outcomes over the life course. It considers how to use research evidence to reduce social disadvantage through translation of evidence to support public policies and programs. The chapters focus on key life course stages such as early child development, adolescence, emerging adulthood, parenting, marriage, relationships and ageing, as well as examining experiences and outcomes for selected social groups such as Indigenous children, migrants and refugees, and gay, lesbian and bisexual groups. The book presents evidence using high-quality and recent data. With a focus on Australia, the volume provides new insights into how context shapes life course pathways and outcomes and a contrast to work that typically focuses on Europe and the United States. It will be of value to anyone interested in understanding how family background and life course pathways influence social disadvantage.

Author : Sarah Irwin
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0415339375

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Reshaping Social Life by Sarah Irwin Pdf

Through analysis of key areas of social life, Irwin breaks with convention and develops a conceptual and analytical perspective of social change, focusing on relationality, context and interdependence.

Author : Josef Ehmer,Carola Lentz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111147529

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Life Course, Work, and Labour in Global History by Josef Ehmer,Carola Lentz Pdf

This multidisciplinary volume offers unique perspectives, across the globe and throughout the centuries, on the complexity of the nexus between work and the life course. For industrialized regions, from Germany and Western Europe to China and Japan, it questions the widespread notion of an overall growing working life course instability, since the 1970s. For unindustrialized or industrializing regions, from West Africa to state socialist East Central Europe, as well as for transnational and transcontinental labour migrations, it shows the enormous influence of the extended family and wider kin on individual pathways into and out of work. For early modern Europe, India, and China, and up to twentieth-century state socialism and to current welfare states, it stresses and concretizes the crucial impact of age and gender for both societal labour relations and individual work-related decision making. With all chapters based on original research, the volume reflects a close cooperation between historians, anthropologists, and sociologists. Its multidisciplinary approach finds expression in its methodological plurality, reaching from archival research and sophisticated statistical analyses to biographical interviews and participant observation. This mix allows to grasp the interaction between societal change and individual agency.

Author : René Levy,Paolo Ghisletta,Jean-Marie Le Goff,Dario Spini,Eric Widmer
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780080460802

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Towards an Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Life Course by René Levy,Paolo Ghisletta,Jean-Marie Le Goff,Dario Spini,Eric Widmer Pdf

Despite the well-established consensus on the need for an interdisciplinary research paradigm to understand the unfolding of human lives within their social context, existing empirical research rarely embraces this belief. This volume aims at examining the feasibility and hurdles of interdisciplinarity specific to given research fields by bringing together leading North-American and European researchers in sociology, psychology, social psychology and social demography, all highly concerned with fostering an interdisciplinary perspective for the study of the human life course. The contributions are organized along four major axes, three of them substantive (agency and structure, transitions, and biographical re-constructions) and one methodological (methodological innovations), leaving ample leeway for the contributions to address the specific gains and difficulties of empirical interdisciplinary research within their particular domain. The editors introduce the volume by discussing general features, theoretical linkages, and transversal substantive themes of interdisciplinarity in life course research. Likewise, the volume is ended by the editors’ conclusions based on the contributions; they single out major challenges and difficulties for the interdisciplinary study of the life course, together with some promising research meant to address such difficulties and improve current knowledge about the life course. The volume speaks to both experienced scholars and graduate students of the life course. Advanced scholars will benefit from the latest in life course research domains and from a comprehensive overview of life course methodologies. Graduate students of the life course will find in the book an original introduction to many empirical aspects of life course research and to the application of innovative methods to various research settings, as well as rich bibliographical references from the research literature in English, German and French.

Author : Matthias Wingens,Michael Windzio,Helga de Valk,Can Aybek
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400715455

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A Life-Course Perspective on Migration and Integration by Matthias Wingens,Michael Windzio,Helga de Valk,Can Aybek Pdf

Over the last four decades the sociological life course approach with its focus on the interplay of structure and agency over time life course perspective has become an important research perspective in the social sciences. Yet, while it has successfully been applied to almost all fields of social inquiry it is much less used in research studying migrant populations and their integration patterns. This is puzzling since understanding immigrants’ integration requires just the kind of dynamic research approach this approach puts forward: any integration theory actually refers to life course processes. This volume shows fruitful cross-linkages between the two research traditions. A range of studies are presented that all apply sociological life course concepts to research on migrants and migrant groups in Europe. The book is organized thematically, indicating different important domains in the life course. Using a wide variety of methodological approaches, it covers both quantitative studies based on population census data and survey material as well as qualitative studies based on interviews. Attention is paid to the life courses of those who migrated themselves as well as their offspring. The studies cover different European countries, relating to one national context or a particular local setting in a city as well as cross-country comparisons. Overall the book shows that applying the sociological life course approach to migration and integration research may advance our understanding of immigrant settlement patterns as well as further develop the life course perspective

Author : Kai Bussmann,Susanne Karstedt
Publisher : Hart Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000-07-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781841131436

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Social Dynamics of Crime and Control by Kai Bussmann,Susanne Karstedt Pdf

This book explores new directions in contemporary theorising about the impact of social and cultural dynamics on crime and social control.

Author : Michael J. Shanahan,Jeylan T. Mortimer,Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319208800

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Handbook of the Life Course by Michael J. Shanahan,Jeylan T. Mortimer,Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson Pdf

Building on the success of the 2003 Handbook of the Life Course, this second volume identifies future directions for life course research and policy. The introductory essay and the chapters that make up the five sections of this book, show consensus on strategic “next steps” in life course studies. These next steps are explored in detail in each section: Section I, on life course theory, provides fresh perspectives on well-established topics, including cohorts, life stages, and legal and regulatory contexts. It challenges life course scholars to move beyond common individualistic paradigms. Section II highlights changes in major institutional and organizational contexts of the life course. It draws on conceptual advances and recent empirical findings to identify promising avenues for research that illuminate the interplay between structure and agency. It examines trends in family, school, and workplace, as well as contexts that deserve heightened attention, including the military, the criminal justice system, and natural and man-made disaster. The remaining three sections consider advances and suggest strategic opportunities in the study of health and development throughout the life course. They explore methodological innovations, including qualitative and three-generational longitudinal research designs, causal analysis, growth curves, and the study of place. Finally, they show ways to build bridges between life course research and public policy.

Author : Ansgar Weymann,Walter R. Heinz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023438125

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Society and Biography by Ansgar Weymann,Walter R. Heinz Pdf

Author : Hannah Zagel
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783658400811

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Single parenthood in the life course by Hannah Zagel Pdf

This book analyses theoretically and empirically why some single mothers are less disadvantaged than others. It argues that single parenthood is associated with different risks, depending on the stage in the life course at which it is experienced and on the institutional protection provided at the respective stage of the life course.

Author : Elizabeth Shove,Mika Pantzar,Matt Watson
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446290033

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The Dynamics of Social Practice by Elizabeth Shove,Mika Pantzar,Matt Watson Pdf

Everyday life is defined and characterised by the rise, transformation and fall of social practices. Using terminology that is both accessible and sophisticated, this essential book guides the reader through a multi-level analysis of this dynamic. In working through core propositions about social practices and how they change the book is clear and accessible; real world examples, including the history of car driving, the emergence of frozen food, and the fate of hula hooping, bring abstract concepts to life and firmly ground them in empirical case-studies and new research. Demonstrating the relevance of social theory for public policy problems, the authors show that the everyday is the basis of social transformation addressing questions such as: how do practices emerge, exist and die? what are the elements from which practices are made? how do practices recruit practitioners? how are elements, practices and the links between them generated, renewed and reproduced? Precise, relevant and persuasive this book will inspire students and researchers from across the social sciences. Elizabeth Shove is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University. Mika Pantzar is Research Professor at the National Consumer Research Centre, Helsinki. Matt Watson is Lecturer in Social and Cultural Geography at University of Sheffield.