Social Dynamics of the Life Course: Transitions, Institutions, and Interrelations

by Heinz,Walter R.

• ISBN13: 9780202306957
• ISBN10: 020230695X
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-10-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Preface
Contributors
Introduction
Theoretical Roots of the Life-Course Perspective	p. 3
The Life-Course Regime: Ambiguities Between Interrelatedness and Individualization	p. 33
The Life Course in Time and Place	p. 57
Combining Methods in Life-Course Research: A Mixed Blessing?	p. 73
From Transitions to Trajectories: Sequence Types	p. 93
Dynamics of Women's Employment Careers: Labor-Market Opportunities and Women's Labor-Market Exit and Reentry	p. 117
Employment Trajectories of East and West German Mothers Compared: One Nation - One Pattern?	p. 143
The Life Course, Institutions, and Life-Course Policy	p. 167
How Institutions Shape the German Life Course	p. 193
Growing Up in American Society: Income, Opportunities, and Outcomes	p. 211
Linked Lives: Dual Careers, Gender, and the Contingent Life Course	p. 237
Ties Between Lives: Dynamics of Employment Patterns of Spouses	p. 259
Changes in Family Roles and Arrangements Between Generations: An Indicator for the Modernization of Gender Relations?	p. 279
Index	p. 299
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