Handbook of the Life Course

by Mortimer, Jeylan T.; Shanahan, Michael J.

• ISBN13: 9780306474989
• ISBN10: 0306474980
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

I. THE LIFE COURSE PERSPECTIVE
1. The Emergence and Development of Life Course Theory	3	(20)
Glen H. Elder Jr., Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson, and Robert Crosnoe
II. HISTORICAL AND CROSS-NATIONAL VARIABILITY IN THE LIFE COURSE
2. Generations, Cohorts, and Social Change	23	(28)
Duane F. Alwin and Ryan J. McCammon
3. Stratified Incentives and Life Course Behaviors	51	(30)
Takehiko Kariya and James E. Rosenbaum
III. NORMATIVE STRUCTURING OF THE LIFE COURSE
4. Age Structuring and the Rhythm of the Life Course	81	(22)
Richard A. Settersten Jr.
IV. MOVEMENT THROUGH THE LIFE COURSE
A. Institutional Structuring of Life Course Trajectories
5. Parental Identification, Couple Commitment, and Problem Solving among Newlyweds	103	(20)
Irving Tallman
6. Family Context and Individual Well-Being: Patterns and Mechanisms in Life Course Perspective	123	(26)
Peter Uhlenberg and Margaret Mueller
7. Intergenerational Relations in Changing Times	149	(16)
Morella M. Putney and Vern L. Bengtson
8. Educational Transitions, Trajectories, and Pathways	165	(20)
Aaron M. Pallas
9. From Work Trajectories to Negotiated Careers: The Contingent Work Life Course	185	(20)
Walter R. Heinz
10. Government and the Life Course	205	(24)
Lutz Leisering
B. Transitions
11. The First-Grade Transition in Life Course Perspective	229	(22)
Doris R. Entwisle, Karl L. Alexander, and Linda Steffel Olson
12. From Student to Worker	251	(18)
Alan C. Kerckhoff
13. Midcourse: Navigating Retirement and a New Life Stage	269	(26)
Phyllis Moen
C. Turning Point
14. Desistance from Crime over the Life Course	295	(16)
Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub
15. Desistance from Crime and Deviance as a Turning Point in the Life Course	311	(20)
Christopher Uggen and Michael Massoglia
16. Migration, Human Development, and the Life Course	331	(38)
Guillermina Jasso
V. LIFE COURSE CONSTRUCTION
A. Agency
17. Self Agency and the Life Course	369	(22)
Viktor Gecas
B. Connections Between Early and Subsequent Life Phases
18. Connections between Childhood and Adulthood	391	(22)
Jane D. McLeod and Elbert P. Almazan
19. How and Why the Understanding of Developmental Continuity and Discontinuity is Important: The Sample Case of Long-term Consequences of Adolescent Substance Use	413	(24)
John E. Schulenberg, Jennifer L. Maggs, and Patrick M. O'Malley
20. Adolescent Work and the Early Socioeconomic Career	437	(28)
Jeylan T. Mortimer, Jeremy Staff, and Sabrina Oesterle
VI. METHODS AND INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES
A. Modes of Studying the Life Course
21. Distinguishing Age, Period, and Cohort Effects	465	(12)
Norval D. Glenn
22. Event History Models for Life Course Analysis	477	(26)
Lawrence L. Wu
23. Panel Models for the Analysis of Change and Growth in Life Course Studies	503	(26)
Charles N. Halaby
24. Characterizing the Life Course as Role Configurations and Pathways: A Latent Structure Approach	529	(26)
Ross Macmillan and Scott R. Eliason
25. Linking Life Course and Life Story: Social Change and the Narrative Study of Lives over Time	555	(24)
Bertram J Cohler and Andrew Hostetler
B. Interdisciplinary Collaborations
26. Personality Trait Development in Adulthood	579	(18)
Brent W. Roberts, Richard W. Robins, Kali H. Trzesniewski, and Avshalom Caspi
27. Biological Models of Behavior and the Life Course	597	(26)
Michael J. Shanahan, Scott M. Hofer; and Lilly Shanahan
28. Socioeconomic Status and Health over the Life Course: Capital as a Unifying Concept	623	(24)
Jennifer R. Frytak, Carolyn R. Harley, and Michael D. Finch
VII. The Future of the Life Course
29. Toward a Global Geography of the Life Course: Challenges of Late Modernity for Life Course Theory	647	(14)
Dale Dannefer
30. Reflections on the Future of the Life Course	661	(10)
Frank Furstenberg
31. Life Course Research: Achievements and Potential	671	(10)
Linda K. George
32. Success and Challenge in Demographic Studies of the Life Course	681	(12)
Dennis P. Hogan and Frances K. Goldscheider
33. The Future of the Life Course: Late Modernity and Life Course Risks	693	(10)
Angela M. O'Rand
34. Future of the Life Course	703	(12)
Ansgar Weymann
Index	715