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- Provides a completely new perspective on transitions in the life course
- Contributes to understanding how social inequalities are reproduced
- Introduces methodologies for future research on transitions across the life course
Part of the book series: Life Course Research and Social Policies (LCRS, volume 16)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Front Matter
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Institutions and Organisations
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Front Matter
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Times and Normativities of Transitions
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Front Matter
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Materialities and Transitions
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Outlook
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About this book
Keywords
- Transitions in the life course
- Life course and biography
- Transitions as social practice
- Doing difference and social inequalities
- Social inclusion and exclusion
- Doing transitions in the life course
- Discoursive articulation of transitions in the life course
- Institutional regulation of the life course
- Individual coping with life course transitions
- Education and the life course
- Welfare and the life course
- Doing gender in the life course
- Migration and transitions
- Transitions from education to work
- Relational research perspectives
- Sociology
- Open Access
Editors and Affiliations
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Institute of Educational Sciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Barbara Stauber
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Institute of Social Pedagogy and Adult Education, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Andreas Walther
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College of Public Health & Human Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA
Richard A. Settersten, Jr.
About the editors
Barbara Stauber is Professor for Educational Science in the sub-discipline of Social pedagogy at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany. She is one of two coordinators of the collaborative PhD programme Doing Transitions at Goethe University of Frankfurt and University of Tübingen. She has published on youth and young adults, transitions in the life course (especially school to work transitions and transitions into parenthood), and on (riskful) youth cultural practices – both nationally and internationally.
Andreas Walther is Professor for Educational Science, Social Pedagogy and Youth Welfare and Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He is Director of the research unit Education and Coping in the Life Course and one of two coordinators of the collaborative PhD programme Doing Transitions at Goethe University of Frankfurt and University of Tübingen. He has published on youth and young adults, transitions in the life course (especially school to work transitions), and on youth participation both nationally and internationally.
Richard A. Settersten, Jr., is University Distinguished Professor of Human Development and Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at Oregon State University, USA, where he also served as head of the School of Social and Behavioral Health Sciences and founding director of the Hallie E. Ford Center for Healthy Children and Families. A specialist in life transitions, Settersten works flexibly across different life phases and disciplines. He has played leadership roles in the American Sociological Association and the Gerontological Society of America and has received numerous awards for his research, teaching, and service.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Doing Transitions in the Life Course
Book Subtitle: Processes and Practices
Editors: Barbara Stauber, Andreas Walther, Richard A. Settersten, Jr.
Series Title: Life Course Research and Social Policies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13512-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s), under the exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13511-8Published: 15 September 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13514-9Published: 15 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-13512-5Published: 14 September 2022
Series ISSN: 2211-7776
Series E-ISSN: 2211-7784
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 252
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Life course, Social Sciences, general, Demography