Social Structures and Human Lives
Social Change and the Life Course Volume 1
1st Edition
Published on 7. November 1988
Book
Hardback
368 pages
978-0-8039-3287-6 (ISBN)
Description
Social Structures and Human Lives consists of papers from the 1986 American Sociological Association annual meeting selected to reflect the rich and diverse array of conceptual, methodological, and substantive reports presented there.
Leading academics and researchers in the field offer information about aging over the life course; the relationship between aging and the changing structure of families, firms, state, and society as a whole; and implications for equality of opportunity for people of differing age, gender, race and socioeconomic status.
A final chapter links selected topics from previous chapters to established sociological concerns and clarifies the broad scope of the book's central theme. Addressed to pioneering sociologists seeking avenues for enlarging and integrating the field and to students of sociology and related disciplines, the volume provides state of the art assessments and a vision of where sociology is heading.
Leading academics and researchers in the field offer information about aging over the life course; the relationship between aging and the changing structure of families, firms, state, and society as a whole; and implications for equality of opportunity for people of differing age, gender, race and socioeconomic status.
A final chapter links selected topics from previous chapters to established sociological concerns and clarifies the broad scope of the book's central theme. Addressed to pioneering sociologists seeking avenues for enlarging and integrating the field and to students of sociology and related disciplines, the volume provides state of the art assessments and a vision of where sociology is heading.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Weight
782 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8039-3287-6 (9780803932876)
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Content
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
Social Structures and Human Lives - Beth B Hess
A Sociological Theme
On the Significance of Age in Sociology - Matilda White Riley
PART TWO: LEVELS OF SOCIAL SYSTEMS
Levels of Analysis - John W Meyer
The Life Course as a Cultural Construction
Therapeutic Justice - John R Sutton
The Legal Construction of Deviant Persons
Family Structure, Individual Lives, and Societal Change - David I Kertzer and Dennis P Hogan
Taking Reproduction Seriously - Laurel L Cornell
Marxism and the "Modern" Family in China and Japan
Gender Stratification, Economic Development, and the African Food Crisis - Rae Lesser Blumberg
Paradigm and Praxis in Nigeria
Unveiling Higher Morbidity for Men - Lois M Verbrugge
The Story
Social Change, Organizational Diversity, and Individual Careers - Michael T Hannan
PART THREE: AGE STRUCTURES AND INEQUALITY
Age Inequalities - Anne Foner
Are They Epiphenomena of the Class System?
Age-Structural Influences on Public Transfers to Dependents - Samuel H Preston
PART FOUR: DYNAMICS OF STRUCTURAL CHANGE
Cohorts and the Dynamics of Ethnic Change - Richard D Alba
German Survivors of World War II - Karl Ulrich Mayer
The Impact on the Life Course of the Collective Experience of Birth Cohorts
Class Formation and Class Mobility - David L Featherman and L Kevin Selbee
A New Approach with Counts from Life History Data
PART FIVE: DYNAMICS OF LIFE-COURSE VARIATIONS
Work Experience and Psychological Change Throughout the Life Course - Jeylan T Mortimer
Women's Work and Women's Careers - Rachel A Rosenfeld and Kenneth I Spenner
A Dynamic Analysis of Work Identity in the Early Life Course
War Experience and Social Ties - Glen H Elder, Jr and Elizabeth Colerick Clipp
Influences Across 40 Years in Men's Lives
Age, Theory Choice, and the Complexity of Social Structure - Peter Messeri
CONCLUDING NOTES
Social Structures and Human Lives - Bettina J Huber
Variations on a Theme
Social Structures and Human Lives - Beth B Hess
A Sociological Theme
On the Significance of Age in Sociology - Matilda White Riley
PART TWO: LEVELS OF SOCIAL SYSTEMS
Levels of Analysis - John W Meyer
The Life Course as a Cultural Construction
Therapeutic Justice - John R Sutton
The Legal Construction of Deviant Persons
Family Structure, Individual Lives, and Societal Change - David I Kertzer and Dennis P Hogan
Taking Reproduction Seriously - Laurel L Cornell
Marxism and the "Modern" Family in China and Japan
Gender Stratification, Economic Development, and the African Food Crisis - Rae Lesser Blumberg
Paradigm and Praxis in Nigeria
Unveiling Higher Morbidity for Men - Lois M Verbrugge
The Story
Social Change, Organizational Diversity, and Individual Careers - Michael T Hannan
PART THREE: AGE STRUCTURES AND INEQUALITY
Age Inequalities - Anne Foner
Are They Epiphenomena of the Class System?
Age-Structural Influences on Public Transfers to Dependents - Samuel H Preston
PART FOUR: DYNAMICS OF STRUCTURAL CHANGE
Cohorts and the Dynamics of Ethnic Change - Richard D Alba
German Survivors of World War II - Karl Ulrich Mayer
The Impact on the Life Course of the Collective Experience of Birth Cohorts
Class Formation and Class Mobility - David L Featherman and L Kevin Selbee
A New Approach with Counts from Life History Data
PART FIVE: DYNAMICS OF LIFE-COURSE VARIATIONS
Work Experience and Psychological Change Throughout the Life Course - Jeylan T Mortimer
Women's Work and Women's Careers - Rachel A Rosenfeld and Kenneth I Spenner
A Dynamic Analysis of Work Identity in the Early Life Course
War Experience and Social Ties - Glen H Elder, Jr and Elizabeth Colerick Clipp
Influences Across 40 Years in Men's Lives
Age, Theory Choice, and the Complexity of Social Structure - Peter Messeri
CONCLUDING NOTES
Social Structures and Human Lives - Bettina J Huber
Variations on a Theme