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SOWK 3515

Life Course Studies

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Winter 2024

Topics

  • timing of life events, social change, cultural constructions, interdependence of individual
  • lives, and the role of theory in shaping intellectual understanding. Life Course provides
  • turning points that socially situate individual lives
  • earlier years of life. Exploration of childhood, teenagers, young adulthood, and middle
  • adulthood
  • the life course model, normative and non-normative shifts, childhood, youth and identity
  • formation, dating, leaving home, early adulthood, entering the labour force, getting
  • married, having children, middle adulthood, and later adulthood
  • Important Note: This is a web course. This means the whole course is online. You
  • answer and links which you are to open and read or videos to watch. The exams
  • Understand the importance of examining social life from Life Course Perspective
  • events on the Life Course of individuals and groups
  • Life Course from a theoretical perspective
  • how innovation impacts Life Course
  • Improve research skills
  • Develop critical thought in relation to Life Course
  • Understand methods used to study Life Course

Readings

  • Required: Green, Lorraine. 2017. Understanding the Life Course Sociological and Psychological Perspectives. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. This is the second addition of the book.
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