Key Concepts
Analyze the impact of social change on individual lives by observing evidence of fluctuations in trajectories and transitions that are associated with specific time periods.
What is Life-course Theory?
Benefits that are gained from a person's network of people who provide resources, recognition, and support.
What is Social Capital?
Who developed life-course theory?
Who is Glen Elder?
The life-course perspective encourages a long-term outlook on development. Life-course theory has provided a rich set of concepts for studying adulthood
What is strengths?
Bidirectional influence of people in close relationships
What is the role of linked lives?
Open Discussion: How have you been influenced by a family member's life trajectory? Was there a time you influenced a family member’s trajectory?
When parents experience economic strain, they may become more irritable and depressed. This can disrupt their relationship and result in harsh parenting.
What is Linked Lives?
Open Discussion: Think of a time that you had to make a decision in your life that impacted those around you (can be a negative or positive experience in your eyes).
Based on Stewart and Healy's model it's known that events that occur during a particular stage of life, shape a person's "assumptions about life and the world".
What is Childhood?
Definition: All people born within a given period of time
What are Birth Cohorts?
Recognizes the central focus of adult life on a few trajectories; education, work, and family life, and examines the interconnections among roles.
What is Concepts?
Exposure to threats, such as parental maltreatment, traumatic exposure to violence, or being a target of racism, and deprivation, such as prenatal malnutrition, extreme poverty, homelessness, or parental depression
What is Accumulation of disadvantages?
Under conditions of crisis or transition, a person tries to cope with the change by remaining as consistent as possible.
What is Accentuation Principle
When someone feels like they are going to lose something or feel threatened, they take action to regain control.
What is Control Cycle?
Open Discussion: Think of a time when you experienced the need to regain control of something you felt was being taken from you
In the latw 1920s-and early 1930's researchers named Harold and Mary Jones launched ______ research which focuses on studying kids over an extended period of time.
What is Longitudinal Research?
The theory does not specify which historical changes are most likely to impact a cohort. This process appears to be empirically derived, based on knowledge of history and social change. The theory has a limited framework for predicting which aspects of development are most likely to be vulnerable to social change at particular stages
What are Limitations?
Open Discussion: Have you been affected or influenced by social change? If so, how has it affected or influenced you?
The formation of a secure attachment, early intervention following the diagnosis of ability, quality housing, safe neighborhoods, and responsive parenting
What is Accumulation of advantages?
This puts pressure on individuals, pushing them to assure particular roles at an expected age. Social class and groups tend to agree on appropriate ages for significant life events, such as marriage, child-rearing, and retirement.
What is a Social Clock?
The principle of situational imperative states that if the circumstances change, a change is required in someone’s __________.
What is Behavior?
Typically, childhood socialization _____
Prepares children to enter adult roles
Discussion: Can you recall any moments in your childhood that helped prepare you for adulthood
An example of life-course theory
What is integrates the idea of agency and personal decision-making? Provides a rich set of concepts for studying adulthood? Provided a unique lens for exploring the impact of the macro-social environment on development? Has been useful in helping to understand the impact of crisis and traumatic events on the long-term adaptation of individuals? Provides a way of understanding the pattern of inequality across generations?
Unique life events that may result in significant reorganization or reframing of one’s life trajectory
What is Turning points?
European Americans in the US tend to view an ideal sequence as work, marriage, and parenting, in that order, but it differs in different ethnic social norms.
What is Role Sequencing?
Being able to handle any problem–even when you get to place where you can’t move forward, you always find a way.
What is "To be Navajo"?
This model is especially relevant for thinking about the process by which values, beliefs, and practices influence the life course.
What is Intergenerational transmission?
These policies can have intended and unintended consequences on the life trajectories of individuals, depending on the impact of those policies.
What is Linked Trajectories and Linked lives?
Comparing narratives of people from the same developmental stage of life and are living in different socio-political periods
What is The impact of social policies on individuals and cohorts?