This text brings together sociological, anthropological and social policy perspectives on the life course with a view to developing the conceptual rigour of the term as well as to exploring the rich range of debates and issues it encompasses. Linking traditional sociological and anthropological concerns with more recent postmodern debates centred on the self, identity and time, the book integrates theoretical debates about childhood, youth, middle age and later life with empirical material in an illuminating and innovative way.
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JENNY HOCKEY is a Social Anthropologist, lecturing in Gender and Health Studies at the University of Hull, UK.
Inhalt
PART 1:
Problematising Ageing and Identity
The Structuring of Age
The Experience of Time's Passage
PART 2:
Histories of the Life Course
The Making of Life Course Histories
Postmodern Lives?
PART 3:
Revitalising the Life Course
Gender, Sexuality and the Body in the Life Course
Family Sociality Across the Life Course
Production and Consumption Across the Life Course
Time, Memory and the Life Course.