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Handbook of the Life Course

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    Chapter 1 Introduction: Life Course Studies – Trends, Challenges, and Future Directions
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    Chapter 2 Institutionalization of Life Course Studies
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    Chapter 3 Age, Cohorts, and the Life Course
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    Chapter 4 Opening the Social: Sociological Imagination in Life Course Studies
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    Chapter 5 The Changing Social Construction of Age and the Life Course: Precarious Identity and Enactment of “Early” and “Encore” Stages of Adulthood
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    Chapter 6 Structuration of the Life Course: Some Neglected Aspects
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    Chapter 7 Family Heterogeneity Over the Life Course
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    Chapter 8 Educational Pathways
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    Chapter 9 College for All: New Institutional Conflicts in the Transition to Adulthood
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    Chapter 10 Changes in Educational Inequality in Cross-National Perspective
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    Chapter 11 Work Over the Gendered Life Course
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    Chapter 12 Military Service in Lives: Where Do We Go From Here?
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    Chapter 13 Criminal Justice and the Life Course
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    Chapter 14 Disaster and Life Course Processes
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    Chapter 15 Early Childhood Poverty: Short and Long-Run Consequences Over the Lifespan
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    Chapter 16 Does the Body Forget? Adult Health, Life Course Dynamics, and Social Change
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    Chapter 17 Living Healthier and Longer: A Life Course Perspective on Education and Health
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    Chapter 18 Life Course Lens on Aging and Health
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    Chapter 19 Mental Health
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    Chapter 20 Agency Across the Life Course
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    Chapter 21 Cognitive Development and the Life Course: Growth, Stability and Decline
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    Chapter 22 Longitudinal Qualitative Research
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    Chapter 23 Causality in Life Course Studies
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    Chapter 24 The Logic and Practice of Growth Curve Analysis: Modeling Strategies for Life Course Dynamics
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    Chapter 25 Three Generation Studies: Methodological Challenges and Promise
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    Chapter 26 Neighborhood, Place, and the Life Course
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    Chapter 27 Life Course Research and the Shaping of Public Policy
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    Chapter 28 Epidemiological Perspectives on the Life Course
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    Chapter 29 The Influence of Social Welfare Policies on Health Disparities Across the Life Course
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    Chapter 30 Life Course Risks and Welfare States’ Risk Management
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    Chapter 31 Longitudinal Studies and Policy for Children in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Evidence from Young Lives
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    Chapter 32 Lags and Leaps: The Dynamics of Demography, Economy and Policy and Their Implications for Life Course Research
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Chapter title
The Changing Social Construction of Age and the Life Course: Precarious Identity and Enactment of “Early” and “Encore” Stages of Adulthood
Chapter number 5
Book title
Handbook of the Life Course
Published by
Springer International Publishing, January 2016
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-20880-0_5
Book ISBNs
978-3-31-920879-4, 978-3-31-920880-0
Authors

Jeylan T. Mortimer, Phyllis Moen

Editors

Michael J. Shanahan, Jeylan T. Mortimer, Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 2%
Unknown 57 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 26%
Student > Master 7 12%
Researcher 6 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 9%
Student > Bachelor 3 5%
Other 9 16%
Unknown 13 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 27 47%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 7%
Psychology 3 5%
Arts and Humanities 2 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 3%
Other 6 10%
Unknown 14 24%