| Handbook of the Life Course 2003 Edition Contributor(s): Mortimer, Jeylan T. (Editor), Shanahan, Michael J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0306474980 ISBN-13: 9780306474989 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2003 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Medical | Mental Health - Social Science | Demography |
| Dewey: 305.2 |
| LCCN: 20427690 |
| Series: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research |
| Physical Information: 1.95" H x 6.4" W x 9.6" (2.65 lbs) 728 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |