Handbook of the life course / edited by Jeylan T. Mortimer and Michael J. Shanahan

The Emergence and Development of Life Course Theory... Generations Cohorts and Social Change.. Stratified Incentives and Life Course Behaviors.. Age Structuring and the Rhythm of the Life Course.. Parental Identification Couple Commitment and Problem Solving among Newlyweds.. Family Context and Individual WellBeing Patterns and Mechanisms in Life Course Perspective.. Intergenerational Relations in Changing Times.. Educational Transitions Trajectories and Pathways.. From Work Trajectories to Negotiated Careers The Contingent Work Life Course.. Government and the Life Course.. The FirstGrade Transition in Life Course Perspective.. From Student to Worker.. Midcourse Navigating Retirement and a New Life Stage.. Desistance from Crime over the Life Course.. Migration Human Development and the Life Course.. SelfAgency and the Life Course.. Connections between Childhood and Adulthood.. How and Why the Understanding of Developmental Continuity and Discontinuity is Important The Sample Case of Longterm Consequences of Adol... .. Adolescent Work and the Early Socioeconomic Career.. Distinguishing Age Period and Cohort Effects.. Event History Models for Life Course Analysis.. Panel Models for the Analysis of Change and Growth in Life Course Studies.. Characterizing the Life Course as Role Configurations and Pathways A Latent Structure Approach.. Linking Life Course and Life Story Social Change and the Narrative Study of Lives over Time.. Personality Trait Development in Adulthood.. Biological Models of Behavior and the Life Course.. Socioeconomic Status and Health over the Life Course Capital as a Unifying Concept.. Toward a Global Geography of the Life Course Challenges of Late Modernity for Life Course Theory.. Reflections on the Future of the Life Course.. Life Course Research Achievements and Potential.. Success and Challenge in Demographic Studies of the Life Course

The Future of the Life Course Late Modernity and Life Course Risks.. Future of the Life Course.. Index

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. eng