Description
Social Networks and the Life Course, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Integrating the Development of Human Lives and Social Relational Networks
Frontiers in Sociology and Social Research Series, Vol. 2
Coordinators: Alwin Duane F., Felmlee Diane H., Kreager Derek A.
Language: EnglishSubjects for Social Networks and the Life Course:
Keywords
Life Course Perspectives on Social Networks; Social Relationships for the Life Course; Life Course Studies; Social Networks Perspectives; Social Relational Networks; Childhood and Adolescent Social Networks; Spousal Relationships over the Life Course; Adolescents’ Life Course Goals; Gender and Social Networks; Race and Social Networks; Adult Wellbeing; Social Networks and Prison Therapeutic Communities; Networks and School-Based Prevention Programs; Inter-Generational Social Networks
Publication date: 01-2019
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 03-2018
Support: Print on demand
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This volume engages the interface between the development of human lives and social relational networks. It focuses on the integration of two subfields of sociology/social science--the life course and social networks. Research practitioners studying social networks typically focus on social structure or social organization, ignoring the complex lives of the people in those networks. At the same time, life course researchers tend to focus on individual lives without necessarily studying the contexts of social relationships in which lives are embedded and ?linked? to one another through social networks. These patterns are changing and this book creates an audience of researchers who will better integrate the two subfields. It covers the role of social networks across the life span, from childhood and adolescence, to midlife, through old age.
Duane F. Alwin is the inaugural holder of the Tracy Winfree and Ted H. McCourtney Professorship in Sociology and Demography at Pennsylvania State University, where he directs the Center for Life Course and Longitudinal Studies.
Diane H. Felmlee is Professor of Sociology and Demography and Research Associate in the PopulationResearch Institute at Pennsylvania State University.
Derek A. Kreager is Professor of Sociology and Criminology, Research Associate in the Population Research Institute, and Director of the Justice Center for Research at Pennsylvania State University.Brings together theoretical and methodological perspectives of social networks and life course
Presents cutting-edge research at the interface of life course and social network studies
Addresses hypotheses about the role of social relationships in people’s lives and how these social network functions vary over the life course
Identifies areas for future research studies aimed at gaps in knowledge from both sides of the social networks and life course equation