Social dynamics of the life course : transitions, institutions, and interrelations / editors, Walter R. Heinz, Victor W. Marshall.

Other author Heinz, Walter R.
Other author Marshall, Victor W.
Format Book
Publication InfoHawthorne, N.Y. : Aldine de Gruyter, ©2003.
Descriptionxix, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Life cycle, Human.
Life change events.
Social institutions.
Social change.

SeriesLife course and aging
Life course and aging. ^A690110
Contents I. TRADITION AND INNOVATION IN LIFE-COURSE RESEARCH -- Theoretical roots of the life-course perspective / Victor W. Marshall, Margaret M. Mueller -- The life-course regime: ambiguities between interrelatedness and individualization / Helga Krüger -- The life course in time and place / Glen H. Elder, Jr. -- Combining methods in life-course research: a mixed blessing? / Walter R. Heinz -- II. LIFE-COURSE TRANSITIONS AND SEQUENCES -- From transtitions to trajectories: sequence types / Reinhold Sackmann, Matthias Wingens -- Dynamics of women's employment careers: labor-market opportunities and women's labor-market exit and reentry / Marlis Buchmann ... [et al.] -- Employment trajectories of East and West German mothers compared: one nation - one pattern? / Hildegard Schaeper, Susanne Falk -- III. INSTITUTIONS AND THE LIFE COURSE -- The life course, institutions, and life-course policy / Ansgar Weymann -- How institutions shape the German life course / Lutz Leisering, Karl F. Schumann -- Growing up in American society: income, opportunities, and outcomes / Frank F. Furstenberg -- IV. INTERRELATIONS AND THE LIFE COURSE -- Linked lives: dual careers, gender, and the contingent life course / Phyllis Moen -- Ties between lives: dynamics of employment patterns of spouses / Sonja Drobnič -- Changes in family roles and arrangement between generations: an indicator for the modernization of gender relations? / Claudia Born.
General note"Based on presentations given at the closing symposium of the special research program "Status Passages and Risks in the Life Course" at the University of Bremen"--Pref.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2003010564
ISBN0202306941 (alk. paper)
ISBN020230695X (pbk. : alk. paper)