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Doing Transitions in the Life Course

Processes and Practices

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Editors:
  1. Barbara Stauber

    1. Institute of Educational Sciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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  2. Andreas Walther

    1. Institute of Social Pedagogy and Adult Education, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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  3. Richard A. Settersten, Jr.

    1. College of Public Health & Human Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA

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  • This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
  • Provides a completely new perspective on transitions in the life course
  • Contributes to understanding how social inequalities are reproduced
  • Introduces methodologies for future research on transitions across the life course

Part of the book series: Life Course Research and Social Policies (LCRS, volume 16)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Outlook

    1. The Significance of Relationality in “Doing Transitions”

      • Richard A. Settersten Jr, Barbara Stauber, Andreas Walther
      Pages 235-252Open Access
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About this book

This open access book provides a unique research perspective on life course transitions. Here, transitions are understood as social processes and practices. Leveraging the recent “practice turn” in the social sciences, the contributors analyze how life course transitions are “done.” This book introduces the concept of “doing transitions” and its implications for theories and methods. It presents fresh empirical research on “doing transitions” in different life phases (e.g., childhood, young adulthood, later life) and life domains (e.g., education, work, family, health, migration). It also emphasizes themes related to institutions and organizations, time and normativity, materialities (such as bodies, spaces, and artifacts), and the reproduction of social inequalities in education and welfare. In coupling this new perspective with empirical illustrations, this book is an indispensable resource for scholars from demography, sociology, psychology, social work and other scientific fields, as well as for students, counselors and practitioners, and policymakers.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Educational Sciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

    Barbara Stauber

  • Institute of Social Pedagogy and Adult Education, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Andreas Walther

  • College of Public Health & Human Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA

    Richard A. Settersten, Jr.

About the editors

Barbara Stauber is Professor for Educational Science in the sub-discipline of Social pedagogy at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany.  She is one of two coordinators of the collaborative PhD programme Doing Transitions at Goethe University of Frankfurt and University of Tübingen. She has published on youth and young adults, transitions in the life course (especially school to work transitions and transitions into parenthood), and on (riskful) youth cultural practices – both nationally and internationally. 

Andreas Walther is Professor for Educational Science, Social Pedagogy and Youth Welfare and Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He is Director of the research unit Education and Coping in the Life Course and one of two coordinators of the collaborative PhD programme Doing Transitions at Goethe University of Frankfurt and University of Tübingen. He has published on youth and young adults, transitions in the life course (especially school to work transitions), and on youth participation both nationally and internationally.

Richard A. Settersten, Jr., is University Distinguished Professor of Human Development and Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at Oregon State University, USA, where he also served as head of the School of Social and Behavioral Health Sciences and founding director of the Hallie E. Ford Center for Healthy Children and Families. A specialist in life transitions, Settersten works flexibly across different life phases and disciplines. He has played leadership roles in the American Sociological Association and the Gerontological Society of America and has received numerous awards for his research, teaching, and service.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Doing Transitions in the Life Course

  • Book Subtitle: Processes and Practices

  • Editors: Barbara Stauber, Andreas Walther, Richard A. Settersten, Jr.

  • Series Title: Life Course Research and Social Policies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13512-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s), under the exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13511-8Published: 15 September 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13514-9Published: 15 September 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-13512-5Published: 14 September 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2211-7776

  • Series E-ISSN: 2211-7784

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 252

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Life course, Social Sciences, general, Demography

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