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This open access book provides a unique research perspective on life course transitions. Here, transitions are understood as social processes and practices. Leveraging the recent “practice turn” in the social sciences, the contributors analyze how life course transitions are “done.” This book introduces the concept of “doing transitions” and its implications for theories and methods. It presents fresh empirical research on “doing transitions” in different life phases (e.g., childhood, young adulthood, later life) and life domains (e.g., education, work, family, health, migration). It also emphasizes themes related to institutions and organizations, time and normativity, materialities (such as bodies, spaces, and artifacts), and the reproduction of social inequalities in education and welfare. In coupling this new perspective with empirical illustrations, this book is an indispensable resource for scholars from demography, sociology, psychology, social work and other scientific fields, as well as for students, counselors and practitioners, and policymakers.

Sociology --- Society & social sciences --- Population & demography --- 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

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Individuals experience a variety of different events throughout their life-course – birth, marriage, change of employment, school graduation, etc. – which sometimes occur in rapid succession, and whose timing and definition may seem unclear. Now that survey questionnaires are able to record individual trajectories in greater depth, changes of status can no longer be viewed simply as separate events, but involve a transition process of variable duration. The observation, modelling and interpretation of these fuzzy thresholds between two situations constitute a dynamic field of research in the social sciences. The authors of this manual have pooled their experience of event-history data collection to address the questions of “focus”, i.e. finding the right observation distance to grasp the complexity of life histories, and of time, i.e. choosing the right timescale of detailed information collection. After analysing the links between quantitative and qualitative data, addressing the distinction between facts and perceptions, and deconstructing analysis data categories, they offer a number of conceptual and methodological solutions. This study extends beyond the scope of specific examples to develop a major empirical approach in a still largely unexplored area. This book targets a much broader audience than the community of demographers alone. It concerns everyone in the field of social sciences who, at one moment or another, is required to organize data collection in the field, either for research or practical purposes. The Groupe de réflexion sur l’approche biographique (GRAB) brings together researchers and academics from a range of institutions (INED, IRD, CNRS, etc.) working in a variety of disciplines: demography, geography, sociology, economics, etc. It is building on the experience acquired through 25 event-history surveys conducted to date in France, Africa and Latin America.

Demography --- event history analysis --- methodology --- temporality --- life course --- Social sciences --- Sociology --- Demographic surveys

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This open access book examines how families and other social institutions interact to shape outcomes over the life course. It considers how to use research evidence to reduce social disadvantage through translation of evidence to support public policies and programs. The chapters focus on key life course stages such as early child development, adolescence, emerging adulthood, parenting, marriage, relationships and ageing, as well as examining experiences and outcomes for selected social groups such as Indigenous children, migrants and refugees, and gay, lesbian and bisexual groups. The book presents evidence using high-quality and recent data. With a focus on Australia, the volume provides new insights into how context shapes life course pathways and outcomes and a contrast to work that typically focuses on Europe and the United States. It will be of value to anyone interested in understanding how family background and life course pathways influence social disadvantage.

Life cycle, Human. --- Sociology. --- Social groups. --- Life Course. --- Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging. --- Association --- Group dynamics --- Groups, Social --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Social participation --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Human life cycle --- Life stages, Human --- Lifecycle, Human --- Human growth --- Life cycles (Biology) --- Maturation (Psychology) --- Developmental psychology --- Family dynamics in Australia --- Life course transitions in Australia --- Gender inequality in Australia --- Child development in Australia --- Parenting practices and outcomes in Australia --- Families, relationships and wellbeing --- Social and economic inequality --- Families and social disadvantage --- Refugee and culturally diverse families --- LGBTIQ+ families --- Life course and labour market participation --- Ageing and loneliness in the life course --- Social policy on families in Australia --- Emerging directions in life course research --- Life course and education --- Life course and Indigenous families

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Menschen deuten ihre Biografien, um ihnen einen subjektiven Sinn zu verleihen. In institutionalisierten Lebensläufen werden Biografien außerdem zu normativ aufgeladenen Verlaufsmustern. Sie spiegeln die Spannung zwischen Lebensverläufen und kulturell-gesellschaftlich geprägten generalisierten Mustern der Lebensführung wider. Der Band versammelt zu dieser Thematik ausgewählte begutachtete Beiträge. Ein lesenswerter Sammelband für Forschende und Lehrende in der Erwachsenenbildung sowie anverwandten Lehr- und Forschungsgebieten. Socialnet.de, 14.05.2018

Adult education. --- Adults, Education of --- Education of adults --- Education --- Continuing education --- Open learning --- Adult education --- Biografie --- Erwachsenenbildung --- Lebensverlauf --- biography --- adult education --- life course

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Institutional care for seniors offers a cultural repository for fears and hopes about an aging population. Although enormous changes have occurred in how institutional care is structured, the legacies of the poorhouse still persist, creating panicked views of the nursing home as a dreaded fate. The paradoxical nature of a space meant to be both hospital and home offers up critical tensions for examination by age studies scholars. The essays in this book challenge stereotypes of institutional care for older adults, illustrate the changes that have occurred over time, and illuminate the continuities in the stories we tell about nursing homes. »Ein sehr interessantes, weiterführendes und nachdenklich machendes Buch. [Es wird] nicht nur ein akademisches Publikum angesprochen, vor allem die Praxis sollte die Lektüre nicht scheuen.« Hermann Brandenburg, www.socialnet.de, 27.02.2018

Age groups: the elderly --- Aging Studies. --- Care. --- Cultural Studies. --- Identity. --- Institution. --- Life Course Narrative. --- Medicine. --- Old Age. --- Sociology of Medicine. --- Space. --- Long-term Care; Institution; Identity; Life Course Narrative; Space; Old Age; Medicine; Aging Studies; Care; Sociology of Medicine; Cultural Studies