Handbook of the Life Course

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mortimer, Jeylan T. (Editor), Shanahan, Michael J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2003.
• Series: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Population.; Sociology.; Clinical psychology.; Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.; Clinical Psychology.; Population Economics.

This comprehensive handbook provides an overview of key theoretical perspectives, concepts, and methodological approaches that, while applied to diverse phenomena, are united in their general approach to the study of lives across age phases. In surveying the wide terrain of life course studies with...