Handbook of the Life Course : Volume II.

Intro -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Introduction: Life Course Studies - Trends, Challenges, and Future Directions -- 1 Growth, Diffusion, Opportunities and Challenges -- 2 Organization of Handbook II -- 3 Section I: Foundations of Life Course Research -- 4 Section II: Changing Social Contexts and Life Course Patterns -- 5 Section III: Health and Development Through the Life Course -- 6 Section IV: Methods for Life Course Research -- 7 Section V: The Life Course and Policy, Building the Nexus -- References -- Part I: Foundations of Life Course Studies and Future Research -- Institutionalization of Life Course Studies -- 1 Origins and Development -- 1.1 Early Studies -- 1.2 Expansion -- 1.2.1 British Studies -- 1.2.2 Swedish Studies -- 1.2.3 Australasian and Canadian Studies -- 1.2.4 US Studies -- 1.2.5 German Studies -- 1.2.6 Household Panel Surveys -- 1.2.7 Census- Based Studies -- 1.3 Review -- 2 Foundations of Growth -- 2.1 Technological -- 2.2 Methodological -- 2.3 Theoretical -- 3 Consolidation and Growth -- 3.1 New Studies -- 3.2 Intergenerational Studies -- 3.3 Cross-National Studies and Collaborations -- 3.4 New Data -- 3.4.1 Biomarker Data -- 3.4.2 Geocoded Data -- 3.4.3 Administrative Data -- 3.4.4 Social and Psychological Data -- 3.5 International Standards -- 3.6 Review -- 4 Institutionalisation -- 5 Challenges and Prospects -- 5.1 Collaboration -- 5.2 Historical Context -- 5.3 Research Ethics -- 5.4 Attrition -- 5.5 Respondent Burden -- 5.6 Investment and Impact -- 5.7 Distribution -- 5.8 Conceptualisation -- 6 Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- Age, Cohorts, and the Life Course -- 1 Conceptual Issues and Perspectives -- 1.1 Early Contributions -- 1.2 The Challenges of Heterogeneity and Context -- 1.3 The Emergence and Consequences of Life Course Theory and Research.

2 Cohort Differences: A Window to Historical and Social Change -- 2.1 A Note on Theory and Processes -- 2.2 Secularization: Cohort Changes in Religious Participation and Authority -- 2.2.1 Religious Service Attendance and Beliefs -- 2.2.2 Religious Authority -- 2.2.3 Non-religious Spirituality -- 2.3 Demographic Change Associated with Cohort Size -- 2.4 Demographic Change in Family Structure and Dynamics -- 2.5 Cohort Differences in Gender Role Attitudes -- 2.5.1 Egalitarian Gender Roles -- 2.6 Final Thoughts on Inter-­cohort Differences -- 3 Historical Variation Within Cohorts: Life Course and Developmental Effects -- 3.1 Living Through Depression and War -- 3.2 Moving Off the Land -- 4 The Impact of Life Course Change -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Opening the Social: Sociological Imagination in Life Course Studies -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Common Phenomena, Divergent Explanations -- 1.2 Containing the Social: The Functional-­Developmental Nexus and Sociological Explanation -- 2 Containing the Social: Three Examples -- 2.1 Agency: The "Big Easy" of the Life Course -- 2.1.1 Agency and Life Transitions -- 2.1.2 Agency and Precariousness -- 2.2 Early-Life Circumstances in Life Course Context -- 2.2.1 Latency of Early Childhood Exposures -- 2.2.2 Path Dependency -- 2.3 From G-E 1.0 to G-E 2.0: Gene-Environment Interactions, Social Control and the Social Regulation of Genetic Expression -- 2.3.1 G-E Interaction 1.0: Social Control of Gene-Based Characteristics -- 2.3.2 From G-E 1.0 to G-E 2.0 -- 3 Conclusion -- References -- The Changing Social Construction of Age and the Life Course: Precarious Identity and Enactment of "Early" and "Encore" Stages of Adulthood -- 1 Increasing Differentiation in the Social Construction of Age -- 2 Ambiguity and Uncertainty in Age Constructions, Interactions, and Identities.

2.1 Children, Adolescents, and Early Adults -- 2.2 Encore and Older Adults -- 3 Linked Lives and the Gendered Life Course -- 4 Disjunctions Between Structural Opportunity and Individual Preference/ Need -- 5 Increasing Diversity Within Age Categories and Continuity Over Time -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Structuration of the Life Course: Some Neglected Aspects -- 1 Our Point of Departure -- 2 A Comparative Lens: Perspectives on Lives in Different Contexts -- 2.1 Structuring the Life Course: Early North American Contributions -- 2.2 Shaping the Life Course Through Laws and Policies: European Perspectives -- 3 Her and His Life: Revisiting Classics -- 4 Demographic Context of Lives and Relationships -- 4.1 Altered Age Structures -- 4.2 Life Maps Out of Step with Demographic Reality? -- 4.3 Altered Opportunities for Relationships Among Age Groups: Increasing Segregation? -- 4.4 Altered Opportunities for Interdependence Across Family Generations -- 4.5 Family Generations: Recognizing Multiple Links -- 4.6 Limited Vertical Ties: Increased Life Course Vulnerability? -- 5 Webs of Interdependent Lives: Micro and Macro Perspectives -- 5.1 Two Faces of Interdependence -- 5.2 Interdependence as a Policy Issue -- 5.3 Examples of Laws and Policies Structuring Interdependence -- 5.4 Intergenerational Care Regimes -- 6 Structuring the Lives of Men and Women: Gender in Laws and Policies -- 6.1 Roles Limited to One Gender -- 6.2 Gender Differences in Age Borders -- 6.3 Gender Differences in Credits for Role Engagement -- 7 Returning to the Point of Departure -- 7.1 Neglected Structural Factors -- 7.2 Analytical and Methodological Challenges in Bridging Levels -- References -- Part II: Changing Social Contexts and Life Course Patterns -- Family Heterogeneity Over the Life Course -- 1 Childhood and Adolescence.

1.1 Educational Enrollment/Attainment: Convergence by Gender -- 1.2 Gender Socialization -- 1.3 Heterogeneity in Socialization by Social Class -- 1.4 Heterogeneity in Socialization by Family Structure -- 1.5 Socialization for Family Life: A Theoretical Approach -- 1.5.1 Heterogeneity by Gender -- 1.5.2 Heterogeneity by Social Class -- 2 Young Adulthood and Adulthood -- 2.1 Transformation Due to the Gender Revolution -- 2.2 Union Formation -- 2.2.1 Delayed Union Formation and Parent-Young Adult Coresidence -- 2.2.2 Social Class Differences in Union Formation -- 2.3 Transition to Parenthood -- 2.3.1 Meaning of Parenting -- Motivation for Childbearing and Later Involvement -- 2.3.2 Biological Relationship and Marital Status of Children's Parents -- 2.3.3 Social-Normative Expectations for Nonbiological Parents -- 2.4 Family Processes -- 2.4.1 Gender Differences in Family Processes -- 2.4.2 Social Class Differences in Family Processes -- 2.4.3 Differences by Race/Ethnicity and Immigrant Origin -- 2.5 Intergenerational Consequences -- 3 Challenges of Aging: Retirement and Sharing Housework -- 3.1 Retirement and Sharing Housework in Separate Spheres Marriages: A Theoretical Approach -- 3.2 Research on Family History and Retirement -- 4 Challenges to Ways of Thinking About Families and Family Formation -- 4.1 Same Sex Couples -- 4.2 Adoption and Assisted Reproductive Technologies -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Educational Pathways -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Educational Life Course -- 2.1 Educational Processes and Inequality in Childhood -- 2.2 Educational Processes and Inequality in Adolescence -- 2.3 Educational Processes and Inequality in Adulthood -- 2.4 Summary of Educational Processes and Inequality -- 3 Life Course Insights into Education -- 3.1 Transitions and Trajectories -- 3.2 Linked Lives.

3.3 Intertwined Trajectories -- 3.4 Contexts -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- College for All: New Institutional Conflicts in the Transition to Adulthood -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Community College Context -- 3 The Shaping of the Transition to Adulthood -- 4 Time is the Enemy: Simultaneous Conflicts in Different Life Domains -- 5 Three Problematic Transitions into Adulthood -- 5.1 High School to College Entry -- 5.2 Credits Without Credentials -- 5.3 College Without Payoffs -- 6 New Structures: Reducing Simultaneous and Sequential Conflicts -- 6.1 Institutional Procedures for the High School-to-College Transition -- 6.2 Institutional Procedures to Improve the Credits-­Credentials Transition -- 6.3 Institutional Procedures to Improve the College-Career Transition -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- Changes in Educational Inequality in Cross-National Perspective -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Conceptual Considerations and Hypotheses -- 2.1 Educational Attainment as a Life Course Process of Successive Educational Transitions -- 2.2 Mechanisms of Social Origin -- 2.3 Competing Theories About Changes in Origin-Specific Educational Opportunities Across Cohorts -- 2.4 Changing Gender Mechanisms Across Cohorts -- 3 Data and Methods -- 4 Results -- 4.1 The Overall Educational Expansion Dynamics in the 22 Countries -- 4.2 Changes in Origin- and Gender-Specific Educational Opportunities -- 5 Summary and Conclusion -- 6 Further Research Needs for Cross-National Comparisons -- References -- Work Over the Gendered Life Course -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Work and the Life Course -- 1.2 Work as a Master Life Course Status -- 2 Historical Context: Work as an Institution -- 3 Time and Timing -- 3.1 Scheduling Social Time: Doing Age and Gender -- 3.2 Timing, Transitions and Trajectories -- 3.3 Timing Norms -- 3.4 Cohort.

4 The Dynamics of Social Change.

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