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Table of Contents:

• 1. Life Course Studies: An Evolving Field / Glen H. Elder, Jr. and Janet Z. Giele
• 2. The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study: Designing a Study of the Life Course / Robert M. Hauser
• 3. Collecting and Interpreting Life Records / Dennis P. Hogan and Carrie E. Spearin
• 4. Longitudinal Ethnography: Uncovering Domestic Abuse in Low-Income Women s Lives / Linda M. Burton, Diane Purvin and Raymond Garrett-Peters
• 5. Linking Research Questions to Data Archives / Glen H. Elder, Jr. and Miles G. Taylor
• 6. Cumulative Processes in the Life Course / Angela M. O Rand
• 7. Life Transitions and Daily Stress Processes / David M. Almeida and Jen D. Wong
• 8. Conceptualizing and Measuring Trajectories / Linda K. George
• 9. Group-Based Trajectories in Life Course Criminology / Elaine Eggleston Doherty, John H. Laub and Robert J. Sampson
• 10. Genetics and Behavior in the Life Course: A Promising Frontier / Michael J. Shanahan and Jason D. Boardman
• 11. Life Stories to Understand Diversity: Variations by Class, Race, and Gender / Janet Z. Giele
• 12. Social Convoys: Studying Linked Lives in Time, Context, and Motion / Phyllis Moen and Elaine Hernandez
• 13. Comparative Life Course Research: A Cross-National and Longitudinal Perspective / Hans-Peter Blossfeld.

Contributors:

Elder, Glen H., Jr.

Giele, Janet Zollinger

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Life cycle, Human — Research — Methodology

Life cycle, Human — Research

Life cycle, Human

Methodology

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-344) and indexes.

Physical Description:

xii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

HQ799.95 .C73 2009

ISBNs:

9781606233207 (pbk., alk. paper)
1606233203 (pbk., alk. paper)
9781606233214 (hbk, alk. paper)
1606233211 (hbk, alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2009021253

OCLC Numbers:

310400351