Transitions : the family and the life course in historical perspective

by Tamara K. Hareven

Studies in Social Discontinuity (1978)

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Transitions: The Family and the Life Course in Historical Perspective covers a life-course analysis in relation to history and the application of the approach to a common data set for late 19th-century American communities in Essex County, Massachusetts. The book discusses the life-course development in relation to historical change; the historical changes in age configurations along the life course; and the use of demographic scaffolding for analyzing family behavior and life-course show more transitions. The text also describes models of economic behavior to the historical patterns; the choices that i show less

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Tamara K. Hareven is Unidel Professor of Family Studies and History at the University of Delaware.

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Sociology, Anthropology, Nonfiction, Economics
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301.42Society, government, & cultureSocial sciences, sociology & anthropologySociology and anthropologyFormerly: Social structure
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HQ555 .M37 .T7Social sciencesThe family. Marriage, Women and SexualityThe Family. Marriage. WomenThe family. Marriage. Home
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