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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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Burning Bodies interrogates the ideas that the authors of historical and theological texts in the medieval West associated with the burning alive of Christian heretics. Michael Barbezat traces these instances from the eleventh century until the advent of the internal crusades of the thirteenth century, depicting the exclusionary fires of hell and judicial execution, the purifying fire of post-mortem purgation, and the unifying fire of God's love that medieval authors used to describe processes of social inclusion and exclusion.Burning Bodies analyses how the accounts of burning heretics alive referenced, affirmed, and elaborated upon wider discourses of community and eschatology. Descriptions of burning supposed heretics alive were profoundly related to ideas of a redemptive Christian community based upon a divine, unifying love, and medieval understandings of what these burnings could have meant to contemporaries cannot be fully appreciated outside of this discourse of communal love. For them, human communities were bodies on fire. Medieval theologians and academics often described the corporate identity of the Christian world as a body joined together by the love of God. This love was like a fire, melting individuals together into one whole. Those who did not spiritually burn with God's love were destined to burn literally in the fires of Hell or Purgatory, and the fires of execution were often described as an earthly extension of these fires. Through this analysis, Barbezat demonstrates how presentations of heresy, and to some extent actual responses to perceived heretics, were shaped by long-standing images of biblical commentary and exegesis. He finds that this imagery is more than a literary curiosity; it is, in fact, a formative historical agent.

Christian heretics --- Fire --- Flesh (Theology) --- Human body --- Body, Human --- Human beings --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Human physiology --- Mind and body --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Flesh and spirit antithesis (Pauline doctrine) --- Heresies and heretics --- Heretics, Christian --- Heretics --- History. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- History of doctrines --- Christianity --- Europe --- Church history --- Chemistry --- Combustion --- Heat --- Religious aspects&delete& --- History --- Corps humain --- --Aspects religieux --- --Christianisme --- --Histoire des doctrines --- --Moyen âge, --- Chair humaine --- --Théologie --- --Feu --- --Hérétique --- --Peine --- --Religious aspects --- Heresy, eschatology, medieval authors, processes of social inclusion and exclusion, the burning alive of Christian heretics, internal crusades of the thirteenth century, the love of God. --- Human body - Religious aspects - Christianity - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Flesh (Theology) - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Fire - Religious aspects - Christianity --- Christian heretics - Europe - History --- Aspects religieux --- Christianisme --- Histoire des doctrines --- Moyen âge, 476-1492 --- Théologie --- Feu --- Hérétique --- Peine --- Europe - Church history - 600-1500

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An in-depth look at how employers today perceive and evaluate job applicants with nonstandard or precarious employment historiesMillions of workers today labor in nontraditional situations involving part-time work, temporary agency employment, and skills underutilization or face the precariousness of long-term unemployment. To date, research has largely focused on how these experiences shape workers’ well-being, rather than how hiring agents perceive and treat job applicants who have moved through these positions. Shifting the focus from workers to hiring agents, Making the Cut explores how key gatekeepers—HR managers, recruiters, and talent acquisition specialists—evaluate workers with nonstandard, mismatched, or precarious employment experience. Factoring in the social groups to which workers belong—such as their race and gender—David Pedulla shows how workers get jobs, how the hiring process unfolds, who makes the cut, and who does not.Drawing on a field experiment examining hiring decisions in four occupational groups and in-depth interviews with hiring agents in the United States, Pedulla documents and unpacks three important discoveries. Hiring professionals extract distinct meanings from different types of employment experiences; the effects of nonstandard, mismatched, and precarious employment histories for workers’ job outcomes are not all the same; and the race and gender of workers intersect with their employment histories to shape which workers get called back for jobs. Indeed, hiring professionals use group-based stereotypes to weave divergent narratives or “stratified stories” about workers with similar employment experiences. The result is a complex set of inequalities in the labor market.Looking at bias and discrimination, social exclusion in the workplace, and the changing nature of work, Making the Cut probes the hiring process and offers a clearer picture of the underpinnings of getting a job in the new economy.

Labor market. --- Employees --- Market, Labor --- Supply and demand for labor --- Markets --- Supply and demand --- Bonnie Oglensky. --- Carroll Seron. --- Chris Tilly. --- Cynthia Fuchs Epstein. --- Esther Neuwirth. --- Falling from Grace. --- Flawed System/Flawed Self. --- Good Jobs, Bad Jobs. --- Jackie Rogers. --- Katherine Newman. --- Lauren Rivera. --- Louis Hyman. --- Ofer Sharone. --- Pedigree. --- Philip Moss. --- Robert Sauté. --- Stories Employers Tell. --- Temp. --- Temps. --- The Mismatched Worker. --- The Part-time Paradox. --- accounting work. --- administrative work. --- bookkeeping work. --- clerical work. --- day laborers. --- economic insecurity. --- employment experiences. --- employment opportunities. --- exclusive hiring. --- freelance work. --- freelancers. --- full-time work. --- hiring decisions. --- human resource management. --- inclusion and exclusion in hiring. --- inclusive hiring. --- jobhunting. --- jobseekers. --- labor and employment relations. --- labor force. --- labor market. --- long-term unemployment. --- occupational culture. --- on-call work. --- on-call workers. --- organizational studies. --- part-time positions. --- project management. --- sales work. --- temp agencies. --- temporary help. --- work and employment. --- Political parties - Europe --- Europe - Politics and government - 1945 --- -Labor market. --- Europe --- Politics and government --- Political parties --- Political parties. --- Politics and government. --- Europe. --- Airo Hino. --- Andrew Gamble. --- Bonnie Meguid. --- Case Mudde. --- Catherine Blaiklock. --- Citizen Politics. --- Colin Crouch. --- Crisis without End?. --- Cultural Backlash. --- European Populism in the Shadow of the Great Recession. --- European elections. --- Five Star Movement. --- Hanspeter Kriesi. --- Herbert Kitschelt. --- Jae-Jae Spoon. --- Jean-Marie Le Pen. --- Lega Nord. --- Marine Le Pen. --- National Front. --- Nigel Farage. --- Party Competition between Unequals. --- Peter Mair. --- Pippa Norris. --- Political Survival of Small Parties in Europe. --- Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe. --- Post-democracy. --- Radical Right. --- Ronald Inglehart. --- Ruling the Void. --- Russell Dalton. --- The Transformation of European Social Democracy. --- UK Independence Party. --- UKIP. --- Voting Radical Right in Western Europe. --- West European Politics in the Age of Globalization. --- anti-austerity. --- anti-feminism. --- anti-feminist. --- anti-globalism. --- anti-immigrant. --- anti-immigration. --- climate change denial. --- comparative politics. --- conservatism. --- democratic socialism. --- electoral studies. --- firm competition. --- green party. --- industrial organization. --- left-wing. --- liberalism. --- nationalism. --- nationalist. --- nativism. --- party competition. --- party politics. --- political parties. --- populism. --- populist. --- protectionism. --- right-wing. --- social democracy. --- ultranationalism. --- voter appeal.