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Transitions

The Family and the Life Course in Historical Perspective

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Transitions

The Family and the Life Course in Historical Perspective

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Academic Press
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9780123251503
eBook ISBN
9781483218069
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Transitions: The Family and the Life Course in Historical Perspective
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. List of Contributors
  6. Foreword
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction: The Historical Study of the Life Course
  10. Chapter 1. Family History and the Life Course
  11. Chapter 2. Changing Configurations of the Life Course
  12. Chapter 3. The Setting: The Essex County Context
  13. Chapter 4. Marriage and Family Formation
  14. Chapter 5. From Fireside to Factory: School Entry and School Leaving in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts
  15. Chapter 6. Women's Work and the Life Course in Essex County, Massachusetts,1880
  16. Chapter 7. Family Transitions into Old Age
  17. Chapter 9. Economic Perspectives on the Life Course
  18. Chapter 10. Comparative Notes on the Life Course
  19. Index
  20. STUDIES IN SOCIAL DISCONTINUITY