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Edited By
René Levy, Universites de Lausanne et de Geneve, Lausanne, Switzerland
Paolo Ghisletta, Universite de Geneve, Geneve, Switzerland
Jean-Marie Le Goff, Universite de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Dario Spini, Universite de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Eric Widmer, Universite de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Advances in Life Course Research, 10
Description
Despite the well-established consensus on the need for an interdisciplinary research paradigm to understand the unfolding of human lives
within their social context, existing empirical research rarely embraces this belief. This volume aims at examining the feasibility and
hurdles of interdisciplinarity specific to given research fields by bringing together leading North-American and European researchers
in sociology, psychology, social psychology and social demography, all highly concerned with fostering an interdisciplinary perspective
for the study of the human life course. The contributions are organized along four major axes, three of them substantive (agency and
structure, transitions, and biographical re-constructions) and one methodological (methodological innovations), leaving ample leeway
for the contributions to address the specific gains and difficulties of empirical interdisciplinary research within their particular
domain. The editors introduce the volume by discussing general features, theoretical linkages, and transversal substantive themes of
interdisciplinarity in life course research. Likewise, the volume is ended by the editors? conclusions based on the contributions; they
single out major challenges and difficulties for the interdisciplinary study of the life course, together with some promising research
meant to address such difficulties and improve current knowledge about the life course.
The volume speaks to both experienced scholars
and graduate students of the life course. Advanced scholars will benefit from the latest in life course research domains and from a comprehensive
overview of life course methodologies. Graduate students of the life course will find in the book an original introduction to many empirical
aspects of life course research and to the application of innovative methods to various research settings, as well as rich bibliographical
references from the research literature in English, German and French.
Contents
Why Look at Life Courses in an Interdisciplinary Perspective? (R. Levy, The Pavie Team).
Part I: Agency and Structure.
Structure
Agency and the Space Between: On the Challenges and Contradictions of a Blended View of the Life Course. (Richard A. Settersten, L. Gannon).
Agency, Events, and Structure at the End of the Life Course. (V.W. Marshall).
Looking at Ambivalences: The Contribution of a "New-Old"
View of Intergenerational Relations to the Study of the Life Course. (K. Luscher).
Part II: Transitions.
Agency and Structure
in Educational Attainment and the Transition to Adulthood. (J. Mortimer, J.T. Staff, J.C Lee). Non-Normative Life Course Transitions:
Reflections on the Significance of Demographic Events on Lives. (F.Y. Furstenberg). The Secret of Transitions: The Interplay of Complexity
and Reduction in Life Course Analysis. (K. Bird, H. Kruger).
Part III: Biographical Re-Construction.
Life-Course Transitions
and Social Identity Change. (N. Emler). The Impact of Personality and Living Context on Remembering Biographical Transitions. (P. Perrig-Chiello,
W.J. Perrig). Studying Lives in Time: A Narrative Approach. (D.P. McAdams).
Part IV: Methodological Innovations.
Life Course
Analysis: Two (Complementary) Cultures? Some Reflections with Examples Form the Analysis of the Transition to Adulthood. (F.C. Billari).
Life Course Data in Demography and Social Sciences: Statistical and Data-Mining Approaches. (G. Ritschard, M. Oris). Five Steps in Latent
Curve Modeling with Longitudinal Life-Span Data. (J.J. McArdle).
Afterthoughts.
Incitations for Interdisciplinarity in Life
Course Research. (P. Ghisletta et al.).
Bibliographic & ordering Information
Hardbound, 412 pages, publication date: NOV-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-7623-1251-1
ISBN-10: 0-7623-1251-3
Imprint: JAI
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