Richard Settersten

Invitation to the Life Course (eBook, PDF)

Towards new understandings of later life

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Produktbeschreibung

Invitation to the Life Course: Toward New Understandings of Later Life discusses in depth the challenges of age, time, and social contexts for the study of aging and later life. Understanding aging (as a process) and later life (as a period) must be accompanied by serious attention to the life course. This brings significant challenges related to time, as gerontologists must describe and explain life patterns over many decades. It also brings significant challenges related to place, as gerontologists must examine how social contexts structure pathways into and through later life, and how those contexts affect the nature and meaning of experiences along the way. This book is a natural extension of the editor's previous work, ""Lives in Time and Place: The Problems and Promises of Developmental Science"" (Baywood, 1999).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 355
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351843195
• Artikelnr.: 54081472

Autorenporträt

Keith Park

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Lives in Time and Place. Describes the aims of the volume and outlines each
chapter.
Chapter One
The Study of Lives: Emerging Propositions and Controversies. Discusses
propositions related to the study of lives from the standpoints of
different disciplines, and explicates debates about the nature and rhythm
of the life course in modern societies.
Chapter Two
Challenges Posed by Age and Age Structuring. Explores the meanings of age
for individuals, groups, and societies, and the uses and measurement of age
in developmental theory and research.
Chapter Three
Challenges Posed by Generation and Cohort. Discusses the significance of
the concepts of generation and cohort, and strategies for handling them, in
developmental scholarship.
Chapter Four
Challenges to Understanding Lives the Long Way. Introduces central concepts
and parameters for describing the life course, and discusses the
theoretical and methodological challenges associated with analyzing lives
in and through time.
Chapter Five
Challenges Posed by Place and Other Issues. Addresses the significance of
social contexts in shaping lives, and how social contexts might be better
incorporated into developmental scholarship. Also introduces other
important strategies for analyzing lives.
Chapter Six
An Agenda for Developmental Science. Highlights the most pressing
challenges that must be confronted to usher in an exciting new era of
theory and research on human development.
References
Index