Understanding the life course /
by Lorraine Green.
- Cambridge : Polity, 2010.
- vii, 269 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliography (p. 227-263) and index.
Understanding the life course - Traditional psychological approaches to children - The new social studies of childhood - Adolescence and youth - Young adulthood - Middle adulthood - Old age - Death, dying, grief and loss.
This title 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.