Understanding the Life Course: Sociological and Psychological Perspectives - Rilegato

Green, Lorraine

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ISBN 10: 0745697925 ISBN 13: 9780745697925

Casa editrice: Polity Pr, 2016

Riassunto

Understanding the Life Course provides a uniquely comprehensive guide to understanding the entire life course from an interdisciplinary perspective. Combining the important insights sociology and psychology have to bring to the study of the life course, the book presents the concept’s theoretical underpinnings in an accessible style, supported by real-life examples.
 
From birth and becoming a parent, to death and grieving for the loss of others, Lorraine Green explores all stages of the life course through key research studies and theories, in conjunction with issues of social inequality (such as social class, race/ethnicity and gender) and critical examination of lay viewpoints. She highlights the many different ways the life course can be interpreted, including themes of linearity and multidirectionality, continuity and discontinuity, and the interplay between nature and nurture, or genetics and culture. The second edition includes new and expanded material on core topics such as online and other new technologies and their impact on the life course, changing markers of transitions to adulthood, active ageing, resilience and neuropsychology, and key data is updated throughout.
 
The book’s comprehensive coverage of the life course counters the limitations of working with a certain group or age category in isolation, and its interdisciplinary focus recognises the centrality of working in and across multiprofessional teams and organizations. It will continue to be essential reading for students on vocational programmes such as social work and nursing, and will provide thought-provoking insight into the wider contexts of the life course for students of psychology and sociology.

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Recensione:

"It is excellent to have this second edition of Understanding the Life Course. It is thoroughly updated and Lorraine Green has continued to provide us with a text which is both ambitious and very readable. It will be invaluable to a range of students on both academic and professional courses who require an insightful and integrated sociological and psychological analysis of the life course." - Nigel Parton, University of Huddersfield
 
"A thorough understanding of the life course requires a strong grasp of both macro- and micro-social influences on our lives, ranging from major historical events to our most intimate family relationships. This excellent book is the only one I know of to put its interdisciplinary approach front and centre, underscoring the ways that psychological theories of identity and development, and sociological research on inequalities, shape the diversity of human experiences in childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age. An original, engaging and informative book that will be well received across a range of social science disciplines." - Deborah Carr, Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University
 
"Lorraine Green has produced an outstanding second version of this successful and wide-ranging book. Retaining the sophistication and accessibility of the first edition, she has carefully updated material, including new nuanced analyses of the concept of resilience and neuro-developmental understandings." - Sue White, Professor of Social Work, University of Birmingham

L'autore:

Lorraine Green is an independent social sciences and social work consultant, formerly of the University of Manchester and the University of Nottingham

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• Editore: Polity Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0745697925
• ISBN 13: 9780745697925
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 295