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Author by Elizabeth D. Hutchison
Genre : Social Science
Editor : SAGE Publications
ISBN : 9781412976411
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 569
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This EPAS-ready text is an in-depth, comprehensive examination of what shapes human behavior across all major developmental stages. Containing potent case studies and the most current theory and research, the book includes greater emphasis on more stages than any other text. This core text is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate Human Behavior and the Social Environment courses in departments of social work and psychology.

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Author by Elizabeth Hutchison
Genre : Social Science
Editor : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN : UOM:39015043796989
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File Pages : 372
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The Changing Life Course is the second volume of the two part work: Dimensions of Human Behavior. This volume covers the same topics as the first, but is arranged longitudinally and emphasizes the adjustments which social services professionals must make in their practice with clients at different stages of the life course. An Instructor's Resource Guide for both volumes is available to adopters who request it on their departments' or organizations' letterhead.

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Author by Sarbani Banerjee
Genre : Fertility, Human
Editor : Rozenberg Publishers
ISBN : 9789036100359
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 388
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This study examines the impact of higher educational attainment on the changing lives of women, both at the individual and the societal level. The study focusses on the cross-cultural contexts in one of the states in South India and the Netherlands. Karnataka in the recent times is experiencing fertility transition while the Netherlands has already achieved fertility transition. The two cultural contexts are both diverse and unique in character. The author explores both the uniqueness as well as the similarities, hence studying the impact of higher education on the changing lives of women as a continuum across cultures and societies. Changes at the individual level are captured by distinguishing women into older and younger generations, while changes at the societal level are captured through social change. At the individual level, we distinguish between the 'lived' life course and the 'perceived' life course. At the societal level we focus on how higher educational attainment has enhanced women's position in the society. The study uses secondary data from the National Family Health Survey (1998-1999) for the state of Karnataka and the Netherlands Family Fertility Survey (OG 98). In addition to the secondary data, in-depth interviews were also conducted amongst women in Bangalore and Groningen.

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Author by Jane Falkingham
Genre : Social Science
Editor : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN : 9781788974875
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 352
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This innovative Handbook offers a deeper understanding of the causes and consequences of demographic change across the lifecourse. Chapters highlight major theoretical and methodological advances and present research that sheds light on family dynamics, health and mobility over the lifecourse, illustrating the implications of lifecourse research for policy and reform.

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Author by Komp, Kathrin
Genre : Social Science
Editor : Policy Press
ISBN : 9781447310716
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 274
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As populations around the globe age, it's more important than ever that we understand how aging affects families, market structures, and social provisions. This volume, part of the Ageing and the Lifecourse series, argues that taking the life course perspective offers the best way to understand the causes and effects of population aging. The book combines insights from a number of different disciplines, as well as real-life experiences, to describe the theories and practices behind the life course approach.

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Author by Janet Z. Giele
Genre : Social Science
Editor : SAGE Publications
ISBN : 9781452251073
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 361
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What are the most effective methods for doing life-course research? In this volume, the field's founders and leaders answer this question, giving readers tips on: the art and method of the appropriate research design; the collection of life-history data; and the search for meaningful patterns to be found in the results.

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Author by Amanda Grenier
Genre : Aging
Editor : Policy Press
ISBN : 9781847426918
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 253
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This book offers a unique perspective on ideas about late life as expressed in social policy and socio-cultural constructs of age with lived experience.

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Author by Michael J. Shanahan
Genre : Social Science
Editor : Springer
ISBN : 9783319208800
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 720
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Building on the success of the 2003 Handbook of the Life Course, this second volume identifies future directions for life course research and policy. The introductory essay and the chapters that make up the five sections of this book, show consensus on strategic “next steps” in life course studies. These next steps are explored in detail in each section: Section I, on life course theory, provides fresh perspectives on well-established topics, including cohorts, life stages, and legal and regulatory contexts. It challenges life course scholars to move beyond common individualistic paradigms. Section II highlights changes in major institutional and organizational contexts of the life course. It draws on conceptual advances and recent empirical findings to identify promising avenues for research that illuminate the interplay between structure and agency. It examines trends in family, school, and workplace, as well as contexts that deserve heightened attention, including the military, the criminal justice system, and natural and man-made disaster. The remaining three sections consider advances and suggest strategic opportunities in the study of health and development throughout the life course. They explore methodological innovations, including qualitative and three-generational longitudinal research designs, causal analysis, growth curves, and the study of place. Finally, they show ways to build bridges between life course research and public policy.

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Author by Raymond K. H. Chan
Genre : Social Science
Editor : Routledge
ISBN : 9781317679813
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 280
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Social policy in modern industrialised societies is increasingly challenged by new social risks. These include insecure employment resulting from ever more volatile labour markets, new family and gender relationships resulting from the growing participation of women in the labour market, and the many problems resulting from very much longer human life expectancy. Whereas once social policy had to be in step with a standardised, relatively stable and predictable life course, it now has to cope with non-standardised individual preferences, life courses and families, and the consequent increased risks and uncertainties. This book examines these new life courses and their impact on social policy across a range of East Asian societies. It shows how governments and social welfare institutions have been slow to respond to the new challenges. In response, we propose a life-course sensitised policy as an approach to manage these risks. Overall, the book provides many new insights which will assist advance social policy in East Asia.

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Author by Jeylan T. Mortimer
Genre : Social Science
Editor : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN : 9780306482472
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 718
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This comprehensive handbook provides an overview of key theoretical perspectives, concepts, and methodological approaches that, while applied to diverse phenomena, are united in their general approach to the study of lives across age phases. In surveying the wide terrain of life course studies with dual emphases on theory and empirical research, this important reference work presents probative concepts and methods and identifies promising avenues for future research.

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