[01:920:240] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (117 pages long!)

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: 01:920:240
• Professor: Allan Horwitz

Document Summary

Nor(cid:373)ality a(cid:374)d the life course: deborah carr, guest lecturer, april 5, 2016. Statistical perspectives: average age of transition, proportion ever making transition, and at what ages, cultural perspectives, historical, cross-(cid:272)ultu(cid:396)al a(cid:374)d su(cid:271)g(cid:396)oup diffe(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:272)es i(cid:374) (cid:862)e(cid:454)pe(cid:272)ted ti(cid:373)eta(cid:271)les(cid:863, cultu(cid:396)al & (cid:272)li(cid:374)i(cid:272)al depi(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s of (cid:862)su(cid:272)(cid:272)essful(cid:863) adoles(cid:272)e(cid:374)t a(cid:374)d adult development. Evolutionary perspectives: dela(cid:455)i(cid:374)g (cid:373)a(cid:396)(cid:396)iages is a(cid:271)(cid:374)o(cid:396)(cid:373)al as it li(cid:373)its o(cid:374)e"s p(cid:396)ospe(cid:272)ts of fi(cid:374)di(cid:374)g a desi(cid:396)a(cid:271)le mate, dela(cid:455)ed (cid:272)hild(cid:271)ea(cid:396)i(cid:374)g (cid:862)a(cid:271)(cid:374)o(cid:396)(cid:373)al(cid:863) as it li(cid:373)its (cid:272)ha(cid:374)(cid:272)es of ha(cid:448)i(cid:374)g (cid:373)ultiple health(cid:455) offspring. What is the (cid:862)life course(cid:863) (cid:862)a se(cid:395)ue(cid:374)(cid:272)e of socially defined roles that an individual enacts over the course of their lifeti(cid:373)es. (cid:863) Stages: childhood adolescence young adulthood adulthood old age. The social roles we hold over the life course. e. g. , student, worker, parent, spouse, retiree. Trajectories of roles and role combinations e. g. , single married parent. Transitions, including timing of movement into and out of roles. e. g. , age at first marriage, first birth.