Green, Lorraine

Understanding the life course : sociological and psychological perspectives / Lorraine Green. - vi, 269 pages ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.

074564015X 9780745640150 0745640168 9780745640167


Life cycle, Human--Social aspects
Developmental psychology.

HQ799.95 / .G74 2010

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