SOC246H1 Lecture Notes - Longitudinal Study, Infante, Baby Boom
Document Summary
Four principles of the life course (glen elder, 1999) next class. Life course :emphasize the process of aging series of pathways that people take through life and are influenced by the place in history, their place in society, their own decision and earlier events. The imagery or model of life course series of trajectories that happen through life, transitions and turning point. Transitions or turning point ( consequential outcomes in peoples life)- can create positive/negative/ qualitative change in peoples life. Glen elder caught on of this ideas and formalize them in the life course perspectives. In the early 1970s, glen elder goes to california and finds studies that monitor the growth and development of children during the 1920s. Children of the great depression (1974): a study of the records on the normal rate of development for children done in 1920s-1930s.
