Table of Contents

Preface

Section I. Fundamental Conceptual Frameworks

1. General Introduction
Walter R. Heinz, Johannes Huinink, Christopher S. Swader, and Ansgar Weymann
2. Life Course and Social Structure
Leonard D. Cain, Jr.
3. The World We Forgot: A Historical Review of the Life Course
Martin Kohli
4. Perspectives on the Life Course
Glen H.Elder, Jr.

Section II. Life Course Policy. The State and Its Institutions

5. Life Course Policy. The State and Its Institutions. Introduction to Section II
Ansgar Weymann
6. The State and the Life Course
Karl U. Mayer and Urs Schoepflin
7. The Life Course, Institutions, and Life Course Policy
Ansgar Weymann
8. The Life-Course Regime: Ambiguities Between Interrelatedness and Individualization
Helga Krüger
9. Toward a Theory of Life Course Institutionalization
René Levy

Section III. Inequality, Markets, and the Life Course

10. Inequality, Markets, and the Life Course. Introduction to Section III
Christopher S. Swader
11. New Routes to Employment: Integration and Exclusion
John Bynner
12. Occupational Careers Under Different Welfare Regimes: West Germany, Great Britain and Sweden
Jutta Allmendinger and Thomas Hinz
13. A Life-Course Perspective on Social Exclusion and Poverty
Caroline Dewilde
14. Comparing Paths of Transition: Employment Opportunities and Earnings in East Germany and Poland During the First Ten Years of the Transformation Process
Martin Diewald and Bogdan W. Mach

Section IV. Linked Lives, Families, and Intergenerational Relations

15. Linked Lives, Families, and Intergenerational Relations. Introduction to Section IV
Johannes Huinink
16. From Youth to Adulthood: Understanding Changing Patterns of Family Formation From a Life Course Perspective
Aart C. Liefbroer
17. Theoretical Perspectives on Couples' Careers
Hans-Peter Blossfeld and Sonja Drobni?
18. Linked Lives: A Transgenerational Approach to Resilience
Phyllis Moen and Mary Ann Erickson
19. Interdependent Lives and Relationships in Changing Times: A Life-Course View of Families and Aging
Gunhild O. Hagestad

Section V. Transitions: Biography and Agency

20. Transitions: Biography and Agency. Introduction to Section V
Walter R. Heinz
21. Adult Lives in a Changing Society
Glen H. Elder, Jr., and Angela M. O'Rand
22. Structure, Agency, and the Space Between: On the Challenges and Contradictions of a Blended View of the Life Course
Richard A. Settersten, Jr., and Lynn Gannon
23. Status Passages as Micro-Macro Linkages in Life Course Research
Walter R. Heinz
24. Clocking Out: Temporal Patterning of Retirement
Shin-Kap Han and Phyllis Moen

References

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