SOC303H1 Lecture 3: SOC303 Lecture #3
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Life course perspective: =social pathways of human lives, (cid:498)age-graded sequences of socially defined roles and events that are enacted over historical time and place(cid:499) Age graded: as you age you progress through certain life stages that are socially defined. As you transition to adulthood you enter different roles: how events, context, and sequence influence aging and development, time. Historical times: economic, cultural, social, political contexts. No longer a stigma to not being married or not having children. Cohort: aggregate of all until that experience a: social pathways particular demographic event during a specific time interval. Trajectories (cid:523)sequences of roles or (cid:494)states(cid:495); eg. being a parent is a role, being legally married is a state) of behaviors and roles that are followed by individuals and groups. Concurrent or joint trajectories/sequences: how do individuals education and employment trajectories develop with their family and childbearing trajectories, how similar are the trajectories of two.
