Digital History - Histoire Numérique

Transitions: The Family and the Life Course in Historical Perspective

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Title

Transitions: The Family and the Life Course in Historical Perspective

Creator

Tamara K. Hareven

Publisher

Elsevier

Date

2013-10-02

Language

en

Type

Book

Zotero

Author

Tamara K. Hareven

Item Type

Book

ISBN

978-1-4832-1806-9

Abstract Note

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.

Date

2013-10-02

Extra

Google-Books-ID: Ey2LBQAAQBAJ

Language

en

Library Catalog

Google Books

Num Pages

327

Publisher

Elsevier

Short Title

Transitions

Title

Transitions: The Family and the Life Course in Historical Perspective

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https://books.google.ca/books?id=Ey2LBQAAQBAJ

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Tamara K. Hareven, “Transitions: The Family and the Life Course in Historical Perspective,” Digital History - Histoire Numérique, accessed November 22, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/jmccutcheon/items/show/533.

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