TY - BOOK ID - 101698581 TI - Doing Transitions in the Life Course : Processes and Practices. AU - Stauber, Barbara. AU - Walther, Andreas. AU - Settersten, Richard A., Jr. PY - 2022 SN - 3031135121 3031135113 PB - Cham Springer Nature DB - UniCat KW - Sociology KW - Society & social sciences KW - Population & demography KW - Transitions in the life course KW - Life course and biography KW - Transitions as social practice KW - Doing difference and social inequalities KW - Social inclusion and exclusion KW - Doing transitions in the life course KW - Discoursive articulation of transitions in the life course KW - Institutional regulation of the life course KW - Individual coping with life course transitions KW - Education and the life course KW - Welfare and the life course KW - Doing gender in the life course KW - Migration and transitions KW - Transitions from education to work KW - Relational research perspectives UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101698581 AB - 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. ER -