Towards an interdisciplinary perspective on the life course
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Amsterdam, Boston etc.
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 423
ISBN-13: 9780762312511
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: List of contributors; title: Why look at life courses in an interdisciplinary perspective? (R. Levy and Pavie); title: Structure, Agency, and the space between: on the challenges and contradictions of a blended view of the life course (R. A. Settersten & L. Gannon); title: Agency, events, and structure at the end of the life course (V. W. Marshall); title: Looking at ambivalences: the contribution of a "new-old" view of intergenerational relations to the study of the life course (K. Lüscher); title: Agency and structure in educational attainment and the transition to adulthood (J. T. Mortimer, J. Staff & J. C. Lee); title: Non-Normative life course transitions: reflections on the significance of demographic events on lives (F. F. Furstenberg); title: The secret of transitions: the interplay of complexity and reduction in life course analysis (K. Bird & H. Krüger); title: Life course transitions and social identity change (N. Emler); title: The impact of personality and living context on remembering biographical transitions (P. Perrig-Chiello & W. J. Perrig); title: Studying lives in time: a narrative approach (D. P. McAdams); title: Life course analysis: two (complementary) cultures? Some reflections with examples from the analysis of the transition to adulthood (F. C. Billari); title: Life course data in demography and social sciences: statistical and data-mining approaches (G. Ritschard & M. Oris); title: Five steps in latent curve modeling with longitudinal life-span data (J. J. McArdle); title: Incitations for interdisciplinarity in life course research (R. Levy, P. Ghisletta, J.-M. Le Goff, D. Spini & E. Widmer)