Social Problems Across the Life Course

Helena Z. Lopata; Judith A. Levy

doi:10.5771/9780585479415

Summary

The human life course is filled with and subject to a wide range of personal difficulties, many of which are shared by others. Life events and processes such as birth, childhood, training for and entering an occupation, marriage, and procreation, growing older, death and dying are all subject to dilemmas, obstacles, and barriers. Social Problems across the Life Course offers accessible readings that examine the societal construction of social problems out of the personal troubles that people confront at major life stages. The essays provide an overview and illustrate the theory and principals that inform both the life course and social problems. Introductions by the editors vividly introduce the research and key theories in this unique anthology, perhaps the only one available to help students understand how life stages and personal and social problems interact.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2003
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7425-2835-2
ISBN-Online: 978-0-585-47941-5
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 2
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1. 1 The Construction of Social Problems across the Life Course Helena Z. Lopata and Judith A. Levy No access
1. 2 Childhood and Public Life: Reaffirming Biographical Divisions Spencer E. Cahill No access
2. 3 Sexuality and Gender in Children's Daily Worlds Barrie Thorne and Zella Luria No access
1. 4 Getting Rid of Troublemakers: High School Disciplinary Procedures and the Production of Dropouts Christine Bowditch No access
2. 5 Learning Collective Eminence: Harvard Law School and the Social Production of Elite Lawyers Robert Granfield and Thomas Koenig No access
1. 6 From Empty Nest to Crowded Nest: The Dynamics of Incompletely Launched Young Adults Allan Schnaiberg and Sheldon Goldenberg No access
2. 7 Social Construction of HIV Transmission and Prevention among Heterosexual Young Adults Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale No access
1. 8 Thinking about the Baby: Gender and Divisions of Infant Care Susan Walzer No access
2. 9 Contributions to Children by Divorced Fathers Jay D. Teachman No access
1. 10 "Outsider within" the Station House: The Impact of Race and Genderon Black Women Police Susan E. Martin No access
2. 11 Shifts and Oscillations in Deviant Careers: The Case of Upper-Level Drug Dealers and Smugglers Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler No access
1. 12 The Politics of Menopause: The "Discovery" of a Deficiency Disease Frances B. McCrea No access
2. 13 Family Status and Poverry among Older Women: The Gendered Distribution of Retirement Income in the United States Madonna Harrington Meyer No access
3. 14 Failing Health and the Desire for Independence: Two Conflicting Aspects of Health Care in Old Age David L. Morgan No access
4. 15 Death and Personal History: Strategies of Identity Preservation David R. Unruh No access
1. 16 Final Constructions: A Review of Differing Perspectives and Solutions Helena Z. Lopata and Judith A. Levy No access
Source List No access Pages 297 - 300
Index No access Pages 301 - 308
About the Editors No access Pages 309 - 2