Doing Transitions in the Life Course: Processes and Practices

This open-access book explores life course transitions as social processes and practices, emphasizing the concept of "doing transitions" across different life phases and domains. It offers empirical research and insights into institutions, organizations, time, normativity, materialities, and social inequalities. It is a valuable resource for scholars, students, practitioners, and policymakers.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 252 pages
Publication date: 15 September 2022
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

This open-access book offers a distinctive research perspective on life course transitions, which are viewed as social processes and practices. By adopting the recent "practice turn" in the social sciences, the contributors examine how life course transitions are carried out. This book introduces the concept of "doing transitions" and its implications for theories and methods. It presents fresh empirical research on "doing transitions" across different life phases (such as childhood, young adulthood, and later life) and life domains (such as education, work, family, health, and migration). Additionally, it highlights themes related to institutions and organizations, time and normativity, materialities (including bodies, spaces, and artifacts), and the reproduction of social inequalities in education and welfare. By combining this new perspective with empirical illustrations, this book serves as an invaluable resource for scholars from demography, sociology, psychology, social work, and other scientific fields, as well as for students, counselors, practitioners, and policymakers.

Weight: 409g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031135149
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022