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The Family and the Life Course in Historical Perspective
1st Edition - January 28, 1978
Editor: Tamara K. Hareven
Language: English
eBook ISBN:9781483218069
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Transitions: The Family and the Life Course in Historical Perspective covers a life-course analysis in relation to history and the application of the approach to a common data set…Read more
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Transitions: The Family and the Life Course in Historical Perspective covers a life-course analysis in relation to history and the application of the approach to a common data set for late 19th-century American communities in Essex County, Massachusetts. The book discusses the life-course development in relation to historical change; the historical changes in age configurations along the life course; and the use of demographic scaffolding for analyzing family behavior and life-course transitions. The text also describes models of economic behavior to the historical patterns; the choices that individuals and families make in the timing of different life-course transitions; and the scheduling of life-course transitions. Marriage; children's entry into and exit from school; patterns of women's entry into the labor force; and the affect on household structure of transitions into old age are also considered. Historians, sociologists, and demographers will find the book invaluable.
List of Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Historical Study of the Life Course
The Family Cycle
The Historical Study of the Life Course
Methodology
Agenda for Future Research
References
1 Family History and the Life Course
The Life Course as a Perspective
The Timing and Order of Events: Cause and Consequence
Temporal Patterns in Marriage and the Family
Social Change in the Life Course
The Family Cycle and Life Course
Overview
References
2 Changing Configurations of the Life Course
Conceptual Framework
Data Available from Census and Vital Statistics Reports
Major Demographic Trends in the United States Since 1870
Successive Cohorts during Childhood
Life-Course Patterns during Adult Years
Cohorts as They Enter Old Age
Conclusion
References
3 The Setting: The Essex County Context
4 Marriage and Family Formation
The Essex Sample
References
5 From Fireside to Factory: School Entry and School Leaving in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts
Introduction
Schooling and Child Labor in Essex County, 1860-1880
Multiple Classification Analysis of School Attendance in 1860 and 1880
Conclusion
Appendix: The Uses of Multiple Classification Analysis
References
6 Women's Work and the Life Course in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1880