New directions in life course research

KU Mayer - Annual review of sociology, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Life courses are studied in sociology and neighboring fields as developmental processes,
as culturally and normatively constructed life stages and age roles, as biographical …

Transition to adulthood in Europe

MC Buchmann, I Kriesi - Annual review of sociology, 2011 - annualreviews.org
This article reviews the similarities and differences in the transition to adulthood in Europe.
Recent change and the still striking diversity in pathways to adulthood in Europe have …

Analyzing and visualizing state sequences in R with TraMineR

A Gabadinho, G Ritschard, NS Müller… - Journal of statistical …, 2011 - jstatsoft.org
This article describes the many capabilities offered by the TraMineR toolbox for categorical
sequence data. It focuses more specifically on the analysis and rendering of state …

The development of loneliness through adolescence and young adulthood: Its nature, correlates, and midlife outcomes.

T Von Soest, M Luhmann, D Gerstorf - Developmental psychology, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Adolescence and young adulthood are characterized by substantial sociodemographic,
family, social, and personality changes that may influence loneliness. Although loneliness is …

Towards a new pattern of transition to adulthood?

FC Billari, AC Liefbroer - Advances in life course research, 2010 - Elsevier
Recent theories about social and demographic change, such as individualization and the
Second Demographic Transition, embed the notion of a convergence towards a specific …

[HTML][HTML] Sequence analysis: Its past, present, and future

TF Liao, D Bolano, C Brzinsky-Fay, B Cornwell… - Social science …, 2022 - Elsevier
This article marks the occasion of Social Science Research's 50th anniversary by reflecting
on the progress of sequence analysis (SA) since its introduction into the social sciences four …

New life for old ideas: The" second wave" of sequence analysis bringing the" course" back into the life course

S Aisenbrey, AE Fasang - Sociological methods & research, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article the authors draw attention to the most recent and promising developments of
sequence analysis. Taking methodological developments in life course sociology as the …

Change in personal culture over the life course

PM Lersch - American Sociological Review, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Prior literature finds stability in personal culture, such as attitudes and values, in individuals'
life courses using short-running panel data. This work has concluded that lasting change in …

[BOOK][B] The new roles of men and women and implications for families and societies

LS Oláh, IE Kotowska, R Richter - 2018 - library.oapen.org
The major trends in family structures and their shifts across the industrialized world over the
past decades are well known: fertility rates have declined below the level sufficient for the …

The de-standardization of the life course: Are men and women equal?

ED Widmer, G Ritschard - Advances in Life Course Research, 2009 - Elsevier
Various studies suggest that rather than being a general trend that concern all individuals
and all life domains uniformly, the de-standardization of the life course has taken distinct …