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Walter R. Heinz ist Professor em. für Soziologie und Psychologie an der Universität Bremen. Ansgar Weymann ist dort Professor für Soziologie und Direktor des Instituts für empirische und angewandte Soziologie (EMPAS). Johannes Huinink ist ebenfalls Professor für Soziologie an der Universität Bremen.

InhaltsangabeTable 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 LifeCourse 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 LifeCourse 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 HansPeter 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 ShinKap Han and Phyllis Moen References Editors

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 Rene 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 Editors