INSEAD Library

Includes bibliographical references and index

Vol. 1 "Social structures and human lives", 368 p. ; Vol. 2 "Sociological lives", 290 p.

Digitized

Social Change and the Life Course Volume 1 Social Structures and Human Lives Contents About the Authors Preface PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Social Structures and Human Lives: A Sociological Theme Beth B. Hess 2. On the Significance of Age in Sociology Matilda White Riley PART II: LEVELS OF SOCIAL SYSTEMS 3. Levels of Analysis: The Life Course as a Cultural Construction John W. Meyer 4. Therapeutic Justice: The Legal Construction of Deviant Persons John R. Sutton 5. Family Structure, Individual Lives, and Societal Change David I. Kertzer Dennis P. Hogan 6. Taking Reproduction Seriously: Marxism and the "Modern Family" in China and Japan Laurel L. Cornell 7. Gender Stratification, Economic Development, and the African Food Crisis: Paradigm and Praxis in Nigeria Rae Lesser Blumberg 8. Unveiling Higher Morbidity for Men: The Story Lois M. Verbrugge 9. Social Change, Organizational Diversity, and Individual Careers Michael T. Hannan 161 101 63 49 7 13 15 16 24 47 83 115 138 PART III: AGE STRUCTURES AND INEQUALITY 10. Age Inequalities: Are They Epiphenomena of the Class System? Anne Foner 11. Age-Structural Influences on Public Transfers to Dependents Samuel H. Preston PART IV: DYNAMICS OF STRUCTURAL CHANGE 12. Cohorts and the Dynamics of Ethnic Change Richard D. Alba 13. German Survivors of World War II: The Impact on the Life Course of the Collective Experience of Birth Cohorts Karl Ulrich Mayer 14. Class Formation and Class Mobility: A New Approach with Counts from Life History Data David L. Featherman L. Kevin Selbee PART V: DYNAMICS OF LIFE-COURSE VARIATIONS 175 176 192 209 211 229 247 265 15. Work Experience and Psychological Change Throughout the Life Course Jeylan T. Mortimer 267 16. Women's Work and Women's Careers: A Dynamic Analysis of Work Identity in the Early Life Course Rachel A. Rosenfeld Kenneth I. Spenner 285 17. War Experience and Social Ties: Influences Across 40 Years in Men's Lives Glen H. Elder, Jr. Elizabeth Colerick Clipp 306 18. Age, Theory Choice, and the Complexity of Social Structure Peter Messeri 328 CONCLUDING NOTES 19. Social Structures and Human Lives: Variations on a Theme Bettina J. Huber Index 345 346 364 Social Change and the Life Course Volume 2 Sociological Lives About the Authors Preface PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Some Thoughts on the Concept of Sociological Autobiography Robert K. Merton 2. Notes on the Influence of Sociological Lives Matilda White Riley PART II: REFLECTIONS OF EIGHT SOCIOLOGISTS 3. Growing Up and Older in Sociology: 1940-1990 Alice S. Rossi 4. Notes on a Double Career Lewis A. Coser 5. Phases of Societal and Sociological Inquiry in an Age of Discontinuity Rosabeth Moss Kanter 6. Academic Controversy and Intellectual Growth William Julius Wilson 7. The Aging Society and My Academic Life Bernice L. Neugarten 8. Socialization to Sociology by Culture Shock Hubert M. Blalock 9. The Changing Institutional Structure of Sociology and My Career William H. Sewell 10. An "Uppity Generation" and the Revitalization of Macroscopic Sociology: Reflections at Midcareer by a Woman from the 1960s Theda Skocpol EPILOGUE 11. Commentary on Sociological Lives Charles Vert Willie Index 119 43 65 7 11 17 23 71 79 91 107 145 163 177