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The Family and the Life Course in Historical Perspective
- 1st Edition - January 28, 1978
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: Tamara K. Hareven
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 0 4 6 3 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 1 8 0 6 - 9
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Request a sales quoteTransitions: 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.
List of Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Historical Study of the Life Course
The Family Cycle
The Historical Study of the Life Course
Methodology
Agenda for Future Research
References
1 Family History and the Life Course
The Life Course as a Perspective
The Timing and Order of Events: Cause and Consequence
Temporal Patterns in Marriage and the Family
Social Change in the Life Course
The Family Cycle and Life Course
Overview
References
2 Changing Configurations of the Life Course
Conceptual Framework
Data Available from Census and Vital Statistics Reports
Major Demographic Trends in the United States Since 1870
Successive Cohorts during Childhood
Life-Course Patterns during Adult Years
Cohorts as They Enter Old Age
Conclusion
References
3 The Setting: The Essex County Context
4 Marriage and Family Formation
The Essex Sample
References
5 From Fireside to Factory: School Entry and School Leaving in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts
Introduction
Schooling and Child Labor in Essex County, 1860-1880
Multiple Classification Analysis of School Attendance in 1860 and 1880
Conclusion
Appendix: The Uses of Multiple Classification Analysis
References
6 Women's Work and the Life Course in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1880
Background
Data
Findings
Conclusion
References
7 Family Transitions into Old Age
Data and Methods
General Pattern
Changing Economic Conditions
References
8 Transitions: Patterns of Timing
Factors Affecting Transitions
The Pace and Sequence of Transitions
The Impact of Ethnicity and Class
Family Economy and the Timing of Transitions
Communities and Local Markets
Historical Implications
References
9 Economic Perspectives on the Life Course
Economic Variables and the Life Course
Budget Constraints
Alternative Responses to Economic Change
Concluding Remarks
References
10 Comparative Notes on the Life Course
Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 28, 1978
- No. of pages (eBook): 336
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9781483204635
- eBook ISBN: 9781483218069
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