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LEAH Seminar

LEAH Seminar. Life Course Perspective/Approach Jerald R. Herting October 19, 2012. Caveats. Social demographer/sociologist Statistician-type Exposed to all sorts of health, psychology, prevention, research… and have found myself thinking apply life course frame. Life Course.

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LEAH Seminar

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  1. LEAH Seminar Life Course Perspective/Approach Jerald R. Herting October 19, 2012

  2. Caveats • Social demographer/sociologist • Statistician-type • Exposed to all sorts of health, psychology, prevention, research… and have found myself thinking apply life course frame

  3. Life Course • “the social pathways of human lives” • “age-graded sequence of socially defined roles and events that are enacted over historical time and place” • how events, context, and sequence influence aging and development---current state • Bottomline: Context (broadly defined) matters

  4. “macro” and “micro” • Fundamentally a perspective that is macro (aggregated unit) in orientation • Fundamentally a perspective that is micro (individual ego “ i “) in orientation

  5. Life course as theoretical orientation • Creates common field of inquiry by providing a framework for descriptive and exploratory work • Leads to specifying particular research problems • Leads to selection of certain variables over others • Sets up research design and data analytical approaches

  6. Key Concepts

  7. “Social Pathways” • Trajectories of behaviors and roles that are followed by individuals and groups a) not without variation/heterogeneity • Typically these are under constraints of social institutions and subject to historical context

  8. “Trajectories” • Sequences of roles/states • Transitions between roles/states • Concurrent or joint trajectories/sequences

  9. “turning points” • Choice points that fundamentally alter trajectories • Limit/expand future choices or alter the likelihood of transitions

  10. Time • “time timetime… see what’s become of me… • Historical --- context • Individual --- age/development/cummulative • Age/period/cohort • fundamental concern

  11. Key Principles • Principle of life span development • Principle of agency

  12. Principle of time and place • Principle of timing

  13. Principle of linked lives

  14. What does one do with this • “Mental Health and Social Adaptation Following the Transition from High School • Aseltine and Gore • “Ethnography and the Meaning of Adolescence in High Risk Neighborhoods” • Burton • “Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults” • Felitti, Anada, Nordenburg et al • “Gender, Resources Across the Life Course, and Cognitive Functioning in Egypt” • Yount

  15. Names • Glen Elder (key sociologist type) • Jeffrey Arnett (“emerging adulthood”) • UrieBronfennbrenner (not explicitly)

  16. Comparing Female Life Course

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