Understanding the life course : sociological and psychological perspectives /
By: Green, Lorraine (Lorraine Carol) [author.].
Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2017Edition: 2nd edition.Description: vii, 295 pages ; 28 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780745697925; 9780745697925:; 0745697925; 9780745697932; 0745697933.Subject(s): Life cycle, Human -- Social aspects | Developmental psychologyDDC classification: 155 GREItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-278) and index.
Introduction -- Key life course principles and theories -- Traditional and modern psychological approaches to children -- The new social studies of childhood -- Adolescence and youth -- Young adulthood -- Middle adulthood -- Old age -- Death, dying, grief and loss -- Conclusion.
This title provides a uniquely comprehensive guide to understanding the entire life course from an interdisciplinary perspective. Combining the important insights sociology and psychology have to bring to the study of the life course, the book presents the concept's theoretical underpinnings in an accessible style.