Characterizing the Life Course as Role Configurations and Pathways

摘要: The life course is a multi-faceted phenomenon. It involves complex interplay among psychological orientations and behaviors; past experiences future actions; age cohort influences; network, historical, institutional contexts that provide an environment of opportunities constraints; the interconnections social roles change over time in environment. All these coalesce to set stage for chances personal wellbeing throughout one’s life. itself constitutes institution, cutting pathways through creating gravity sorts, varyingly attracting individual lives into role configurations conforming age-graded norms. Research on development accompanying theories thus grapples with wide array issues, have numerous foci, draw upon number disciplines order understand context human (Elder, 1994).