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.

Leseprobe

From the contents I: The Life Course Perspective.- II: Historical and Cross-National Variability in the Life Course.- III: Normative Structuring in the Life Course.- IV: Movement through the Life Course.- V: Life Course Construction.- VI: Methods and Interdisciplinary Approaches.- VII: The Future of the Life Course.