Handbook of the Life Course, Volume 1Jeylan T. Mortimer, Michael J. Shanahan 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. Included are 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 these disciplines. |
Contents
The Emergence and Development of Life Course Theory | 3 |
HISTORICAL AND CROSSNATIONAL VARIABILITY | 21 |
Stratified Incentives and Life Course Behaviors | 51 |
Age Structuring and the Rhythm of the Life Course | 81 |
Parental Identification Couple Commitment | 103 |
Patterns | 123 |
Educational Transitions Trajectories and Pathways | 165 |
Government and the Life Course | 205 |
Connections between Childhood and Adulthood | 391 |
How and Why the Understanding of Developmental Continuity | 413 |
METHODS AND INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES | 461 |
Event History Models for Life Course Analysis | 477 |
Panel Models for the Analysis of Change and Growth | 503 |
Social Change | 555 |
Personality Trait Development in Adulthood | 579 |
Biological Models of Behavior and the Life Course | 597 |
The FirstGrade Transition in Life Course Perspective | 229 |
From Student to Worker | 251 |
Navigating Retirement and a New Life Stage | 269 |
Desistance from Crime over the Life Course | 295 |
Desistance from Crime and Deviance as | 311 |
Migration Human Development and the Life Course | 331 |
SelfAgency and the Life Course | 369 |