Life Course: Integrative Theories and Exemplary Populations: Integrative Theories and Exemplary Populations

ISBN-13: 9780367022334 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 192 str.

Back, Kurt W.

Opis

In this interdisciplinary study of the human life course as a unit, scholars examine aspects of the life course, looking at several features over a short span and at a few traits over a longer period. provides an overview from disciplines (e.g., history, demography, sociology) that are concerned with understanding the human life course; contains studies of special populations in which integration of a variety of experiences over time can be accomplished. Based on these approaches, new methods appropriate to a science of human life are proposed and discussed in a form suitable for students, faculty, and professionals in human development (sociology, anthropology, psychology), demography, and gerontology.

Spis treści

Introduction -- Disciplinary Approaches -- The Life Course and Aging in Historical Perspective -- Biography, Autobiography and the Life Course -- Mental Health Across the Family Life Cycle -- A Demographic Approach to the Life Cycle -- Disciplines and Exemplary Populations -- The Life Course of College Professors and Administrators -- Structure and Dynamics of the Individual Life Course -- Terman's Gifted Women: Work and the Way They See Their Lives -- Life History Among the Elderly: Performance, Visibility and Re-Membering -- Conclusion -- Mathematics and the Poetry of Human Life and Points In-Between