Transitions: The Family and the Life Course in Historical Perspective
- ISBN-10
- 1483218066
- ISBN-13
- 9781483218069
- Series
- Transitions
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-10-02
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Author
- Tamara K. Hareven
Description
Transitions: The Family and the Life Course in Historical Perspective covers a life-course analysis in relation to history and the application of the approach to a common data set for late 19th-century American communities in Essex County, Massachusetts. The book discusses the life-course development in relation to historical change; the historical changes in age configurations along the life course; and the use of demographic scaffolding for analyzing family behavior and life-course transitions. The text also describes models of economic behavior to the historical patterns; the choices that individuals and families make in the timing of different life-course transitions; and the scheduling of life-course transitions. Marriage; children's entry into and exit from school; patterns of women's entry into the labor force; and the affect on household structure of transitions into old age are also considered. Historians, sociologists, and demographers will find the book invaluable.
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