开学啦！课程大纲！书单【社会学of the life course】

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【因全部复制过来，会抄过3万字——微信公众号发文限制，故做了节选】

Sociology 492/571: Sociology of the Life Course

Fall 2007

Professor: Deborah Carr

E-mail: [e-mail]

Website: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~carrds

（图片来源：爱奇艺，《中国有嘻哈》复活赛）

目录简译

1. 导论

2. 方法模型与数据资料

3. 历史时空中的生活

4. 能动性与结构规约

5. 能动性

6. 结构规约

7. 世代之间

8. 人生的过渡/轨迹/转折点

9. 迈向成人

10. 青壮年

11. 工作

12. 家庭

13. 临终与死亡

I. Introduction to the Life Course Paradigm

September 10: Introduction to the Life Course Paradigm: Foundations, Themes and Expansions

Required Readings:

Dannefer, Dale. 1984. “Adult Development and Social Theory: A Paradigmatic Reappraisal.” American Sociological Review 49: 100-116, and responses: Baltes, Paul B., and John R. Nesselroade. 1984. “Paradigm Lost and Paradigm Regained: Critique of Dannefer's Portrayal of Life-Span Developmental Psychology.” American Sociological Review 49:841-847; Dannefer, Dale. 1984. “The Role of the Social in Life-Span Developmental Psychology, Past and Future: Rejoinder to Baltes and Nesselroade.”American Sociological Review 49: 847-850.

Elder, Glen H., Jr. 1998. “The Life Course as Developmental Theory.” Child Development 69(1):1-12.

Elder, Glen H., Jr. 1994. “Time, Human Agency and Social Change: Perspectives on the Life Course.” Social Psychology Quarterly 57:4-15.

Linton, Ralph. 1942. “Age and Sex Categories.” American Sociological Review 7:589-603.

Mills, C. Wright. 1959. The Sociological Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press. Ch. 1. “The Promise” (pp. 3-24).

Riley, Matilda White. 1987. “On the Significance of Age in Sociology.”American Sociological Review 52:1-14

【这篇1987是Riley当选美国社会学会长的就职演讲。

已推送过Riley学说的总结，见link】

已推送过Riley的译文，见link】

Recommended Articles:

Cacioppo, J. T., Berntson, G. G., Sheridan, J. F., & McClintock, M. K. 2000. “Multilevel Integrative Analyses of Human Behavior: Social Neuroscience and the Complementing Nature of Social and Biological Approaches.” Psychological Bulletin 126: 829–843.

Freese, Jeremy, Jui-Chung, Allen Li, and Lisa D. Wade. 2003. “The Potential Relevances of Biology to Social Inquiry.” Annual Review of Sociology 29: 233-56.

Recommended Books:

Brim, Orville G., Jr. and Jerome Kagan. 1980. Constancy and Change in Human Development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Clausen, John A. 1986. The Life Course: A Sociological Perspective. New York: Prentice-Hall.

Hatch, Laurie Russell. 2000. Beyond Gender Differences: Adaptation to Aging in Life Course Perspective. Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing Co.

Mortimer, Jeylan T., and Michael J. Shanahan (Eds.). 2003. Handbook of the Life Course. New York: Kluwer.

Settersten, Richard A., Jr. 1999. Lives in Time and Place: The Problems and Promises of Developmental Science. Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing Co.

Settersten, Richard A. Jr., (Ed.). 2003. Invitation to the Life Course: Toward New Understandings of Later Life. Amityville, NY: Baywood.

Shanahan, Michael and Ross MacMillan. 2007. Biography and the Sociological Imagination. New York: W. W. Norton.

September 17:  Life Course Methods, Models, and Data Sources 

Required:

Alwin, Duane F., and Richard T. Campbell. 2001. “Quantitative Approaches: Longitudinal Methods in the Study of Human Development and Aging.” Pp. 22-43 in Handbook of Aging & the Social Sciences, 5^th edition, ed. by Robert H. Binstock and Linda K. George. New York: Academic.

【推送过Alwin的两篇文章，谈life course，generation的，link1 link2】

Baron, Reuben M. and David A. Kenny. 1986. “The Moderator-Mediator Variable Distinction in Social Psychological Research: Conceptual, Strategic, and Statistical Considerations.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 51(6): 1173-1182.

Cahill, Spencer, Gary Alan Fine, and Linda Grant. 1995.

Palmore, Erdmore. 1978. 

Rutter, Michael. 1994. “Beyond Longitudinal Data: Causes, Consequences, Changes and Continuity.” Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 62(5):928-40.

Wheaton, Blair. 2003. “When Methods Make a Difference.” Current Sociology 51: 543-71.

Recommended Articles:

Alwin, Duane. “Quantitative Methods in Social Psychology” 2005. Pp. 650-680 in Sociological Perspectives on Social Psychology, edited by Karen S. Cook, Gary Allan Fine, and James S. House. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Godwin, Deborah D. 1988. 

Miech, Richard A., Avshalom Caspi, Terrie E. Moffitt, Bradley R. Entner Wright, and Phil A. Silva. 1999.

Petersen, Trond. 1993. “Recent Advances in Longitudinal Methodology.” Annual Review of Sociology 19: 425-454.

Singer, Burton H., Carol D. Ryff, Deborah Carr, and William Magee. 1998. “Linking Life Histories and Mental Health: A Person-Centered Strategy.” Sociological Methodology 28:1-51.

Recommended Books:

略。

II. Paradigmatic Themes

A.  Lives in Historical Time and Place

September 24: The Influence of Birth Cohort and Historical Context

Required Readings:

Brown, Tony N., and Chase L. Lesane-Brown. 2006. “Race Socialization Messages across Historical Time.” Social Psychology Quarterly 69: 201-213.

Carr, Deborah. 2002.  

Elder, Glen H., Jr., 1974. Children of the Great Depression: Social Change in Life Experience. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.  Ch. 1 “The Depression Experience” (pp. 3-24), Ch. 2 “Adaptations to Economic Deprivation” (pp. 24-40), Ch. 9 “Personality in Adult Experience” (pp. 240-268).

【《大萧条的孩子们》，有译文】

Griffin, Larry J. 2004. “’Generations and Collective Memories’ Revisited: Race, Region, and the Memory of Civil Rights.” American Sociological Review 69: 544-557.

Mannheim, Karl. 1952. “The Problem of Generations.”  Pp. 286-323 in Essays on the Sociology of Knowledge, edited by D. Kecskemeti. London: Routledge and Kagan.

【有译文，收录在《曼海姆精粹》】

McAdam, Doug. 1988. Freedom Summer. NY: Oxford University Press. Ch 1. “America on the Eve of Freedom Summer” (pp. 11-34), Ch. 2. “The Biographical Roots of Activism.” (pp. 35-65).

Ryder, Norman B. 1965. “The Cohort as a Concept in the Study of Social Change.” American Sociological Review 30(6):843-61.

【奠基之作，推过Abbott的一篇和此有关，link】

Schuman, Howard and Jacqueline Scott. 1989.

Recommended Articles:

Alwin, Duane. 1996. “Parental Socialization in Historical Perspective.” Pp. 105-167 in The Parental Experience in Midlife, edited by Carol D. Ryff and Marsha M. Seltzer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Hout, Michael and Claude S. Fischer. 2002. “Why More Americans Have No Religious Preference: Politics and Generations.” American Sociological Review 67: 165-90.

Inkeles, Alex and Daniel Levinson. 1969. “National Character: The Study of Modal Personality and Sociocultural Systems.” Pp. 418-507 in The Handbook of Social Psychology, 2nd edition, Volume 4, edited by G. Lindzey & E. Aronson. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Kertzer, David. 1983. “Generation as a Sociological Problem.” Annual Review of Sociology 9:125-149.

Myers, Scott M., and Alan Booth. 2002. 

Stockard, Jean and Robert M. O’Brien. 2002. “Cohort Effects on Suicide Rates: International Variations.” American Sociological Review 67(6): 854-72.

Recommended Books:

略。

B. Human Agency and Structural Constraints

October  1: Agency and Planful Behavior

Required:

Clausen, John. 1991. “Adolescent Competence and the Shaping of the Life Course.” American Journal of Sociology 96:805-842.

Emirbayer, Mustafa and Ann Mische. 1998. “What is Agency?” American Journal of Sociology 103(4):962-1023.

【本公众号第100期推送过，link】

Lareau, Annette. 2002. “Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families.” American Sociological Review 67: 747-776.

Merton, Robert K. 1968 (1957) Social Theory and Social Structure. New York: The Free Press. Ch. 6 “Social Structure and Anomie” (pp. 175-214), Ch. 7 “Continuities in the Theory of Social Structure and Anomie” (pp. 215-248).

【有译本。】

Mirowsky, John and Catherine E. Ross. 2007. “Life Course Trajectories of Perceived Control and their Relationship to Education.” American Journal of Sociology 112: 1139-82.

Scarr, Sandra and Kathleen McCartney. 1983. “How People Make Their Own Environments: A Theory of Genotype-Environment Effects.” Child Development 54:424-35.

Recommended Articles:

Corell, Shelley J. 2001. “Gender and the Career Choice Process: The Role of Biased Self-Assessments.” American Journal of Sociology 106(6): 1691-1730.

Marshall, Victor W. 2000. “Agency, Structure, and the Life Course in the Era of Reflexive Modernization.” Paper presented at 2000 annual meetings of American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C.

Shanahan, Michael J., Glen H. Elder, and Richard A. Miech. 1997. “History and Agency in Men’s Lives: Pathways to Achievement in Cohort Perspective.” Sociology of Education 70(1):54-67.

Spenner, Kenneth I. and David L. Featherman. 1978. “Achievement Ambitions.” Annual Review of Sociology 4:373-420.

Recommended Books:

Clausen, John. 1993. American Lives. New York: Free Press.

Erikson, Erik. 1950. Childhood and Society. New York: Norton.

【有译本。】

Vaillant, George. 1977. Adaptation to Life. Boston: Little, Brown.

October 8: Constraints to Human Agency

Required:

Bowles, Samuel and Herbert Gintis. 1976. Schooling in Capitalist America. New York: Basic Books. Ch. 1 “Beyond the Educational Frontier: The Great American Dream Freeze,” (pp. 3-17) Ch. 2 “Broken Promises: School Reform in Retrospect” (pp. 18-49), and Ch. 5 “Education and Personal Development: The Long Shadow of Work” (pp. 125-148).

Cavanagh, Shannon E., Catherine Riegle-Crumb, and Robert Crosnoe. 2007. “Puberty and the Education of Girls.” Social Psychology Quarterly 70: 186-198.

Crosnoe, Robert. 2007. “Gender, Obesity, and Education.” Sociology of Education 80: 241-260.

Dannefer, Dale. 2003. “Cumulative Advantage/Cumulative Disadvantage and the Life Course: Cross-Fertilizing Age and Social Science Theory.” Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 58: 327-337.

【Dannefer是这一领域的大咖，李钧鹏老师的论文介绍过，见《生命历程研究中的若干问题》，cnki.net下载】

Dohrenwend, Bruce P. 2000. “The Role of Adversity and Stress in Psychopathology: Some Evidence and its Implications for Research and Theory.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 41: 1-19.

Eccles, Jacquelynne S. 1987. “Gender Roles and Women’s Achievement-Related Decisions.” Psychological of Women Quarterly 11:135-72.

MacLeod, Jay. 1995. Ain’t No Makin’ It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood.  New York: Westview Press. Ch 1. “Social Immobility in the Land of Opportunity” (pp. 3-10); Ch. 5. “The World of Work: Aspirations of the Hangers and the Brothers” (pp. 61-82), and Ch. 7. “Leveled Aspirations: Social Reproduction Takes its Toll” (pp. 112-134).

Mayer, Susan. 2002. “How Did the Increase in Economic Inequality between 1970 and 1990 Affect Children’s Educational Attainment?” American Journal of Sociology 107(1): 1-32.

Recommended Articles:

Kessler, Ronald C., Kristin D. Mickelson, and David R. Williams. 1999. “The Prevalence, Distribution and Mental Health Correlates of Perceived Discrimination in the United States.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 40: 208-230.

Mayer, Karl-Ulrich and Urs Schoepflin. 1989. “The State and the Life Course.” Annual Review of Sociology 15:187-209.

【谈生命历程制度化的经典之作】

McLeod, Jane D., and Timothy J. Owens. 2004. “Psychological Well-Being in the Early Life Course: Variations by Socioeconomic Status, Gender, and Race/Ethnicity.” Social Psychology Quarterly 67: 257-278.

Seccombe, Karen. 2000. “Families in Poverty in the 1990s: Trends, Causes, Consequences and Lessons Learned.” Journal of Marriage and the Family 62(4): 1094-1113.

Recommended Books:

Allatt, Patricia. (Ed.). 1987. Women and the Life Cycle: Transitions and Turning Points. Hampshire: Macmillan Press.

Blauner, Robert. 1989. Black Lives, White Lives. Berkeley: University of California Press.

C.  Linked Lives

October 15: Intergenerational Influences

Required:

Amato, Paul. 1996. “Explaining the Intergenerational Transmission of Divorce.” Journal of Marriage and the Family 58:628-40. 

DiMaggio, Paul. 1982. “Cultural Capital and School Success: The Impact of Status Culture Participation on the Grades of U.S. High School Students.” American Sociological Review 47:189-201.

D’Onofrio, Brian M., Eric Turkheimer, Robert E. Emery, K. Paige Harden, Wendy S. Slutske, Andrew C. Heath, Pamela A. F. Madden, and Nicholas G. Martin. 2007. “A Genetically Informed Study of the Intergenerational Transmission of Marital Instability.” Journal of Marriage and Family 69: 793-809.

Glass, Jennifer, Vern L. Bengston, and Charlotte Chorn Dunham. 1986. “Attitude Similarity in Three-Generation Families: Socialization, Status Inheritance, or Reciprocal Effects.” American Sociological Review 51:685-698.

Luthar, Suniya S., Dante Cicchetti, and Bronwyn Becker. 2000. “The Construct of Resilience: A Critical Evaluation and Guidelines for Future Work.” Child Development 71(3): 543-562.

McLanahan, Sara and Larry Bumpass. 1988. “Intergenerational Consequences of Family Disruption.” American Journal of Sociology 94:130-52.

Moen, Phyllis, Mary Ann Erikson, and Donna Dempster-McClain. 1997. “Their Mother’s Daughters? The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Attitudes in a World of Changing Roles.” Journal of Marriage and the Family 59:281-93.

Stacey, Judith and Timothy J. Biblarz. 2001. “(How) Does the Sexual Orientation of Parents Matter?” American Sociological Review 66(2): 159-183.

Recommended:

Alwin, Duane F. and Arland Thornton. 1984. “Family Origins and the Schooling Process: Early versus Late Influence of Parental Characteristics.” American Sociological Review 49:784-802.

Bronfenbrenner, Urie. 1986. “Ecology of the Family as a Context for Human Development:

Research Perspectives.” Developmental Psychology 22(6):723-42.

Carr, Deborah. 2004. “’My Daughter Has a Career: I Just Raised Babies’: The Psychological Consequences of Women’s Intergenerational Social Comparisons.” Social Psychology Quarterly 67: 132-154.

Carr, Deborah. 2005. “The Psychological Consequences of Midlife Men’s Social Comparisons with their Young Adult Sons.” Journal of Marriage and Family 67: 240-50.

Patterson, Gerald R. 1998. “Continuities - A Search for Causal Mechanisms: Comment on the Special Section.” Developmental Psychology 34(6): 1263-8.

Rutter, Michael. 1998. “Some Research Considerations on Intergenerational Continuities and Discontinuities: Comments on the Special Section.” Developmental Psychology 34(6):1269-73.

Sweeney, Megan M. 2007. “Stepfather Families and the Emotional Well-being of Adolescents.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 48: 33-49.

Recommended Books:

Alwin, Duane F., R.L. Cohen, and T.M. Newcomb. 1991. Political Attitudes Over the Life Span: The Bennington Women After Fifty Years. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.

Kohn, Melvin L. 1969. Class and Conformity: A Study in Values. Homewood, IL: Dorsey Press.

Rossi, Alice and Peter Rossi. 1990. Of Human Bonding. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.

Sewell, William H. and Robert M. Hauser. 1975. Education, Occupation and Earnings: Achievement in the Early Career. New York: Academic Press.

【之前推送过的Sewell Jr.的老豆。。Sewell的推送，见link】

D. Timing, Transitions and Trajectories

October 22: The Meaning of Transitions, Trajectories and Turning Points

Required:

Carr, Deborah and Tetyana Pudrovska. 2007. “Mid-Life and Later-Life Crises.” Pp. 175-185 in Encyclopedia of Gerontology, 2^nd edition, edited by James E. Birren. New York: Elsevier.

Fomby, Paula and Andrew J. Cherlin. 2007. “Family Instability and Child Well-Being.” American Sociological Review 72: 181-204.

George, Linda. 1993. “Sociological Perspectives on Life Transitions.” Annual Review of Sociology 19:353-73.

McLeod, Jane D. and Ronald Kessler. 1990. “Socioeconomic Status Differences in Vulnerability to Undesirable Life Events.” Journal of Health & Social Behavior 31:162-172.

Rindfuss, Ronald, C. Gray Swicegood, and Rachel A. Rosenfeld. 1987.  “Disorder in the Life Course: How Common and Does it Matter?” American Sociological Review 52:785-801.

Sharp, Elizabeth A., and Lawrence Ganong. 2007. “Living in the Gray: Women’s Experiences of Missing the Marital Transition.” Journal of Marriage and Family 69: 831-44.

Sweeney, Megan and Allan V. Horwitz. 2001. “Infidelity, Initiation and the Emotional Climate of Divorce: Are There Implications for Mental Health?” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 42(3): 295-309.

Wheaton, Blair. 1990. “Life Transitions, Role Histories and Mental Health” American Sociological Review 55:209-223.

Recommended Readings:

Ebaugh, Helen R.F. 1988. Becoming an Ex: The Process of Role Exit. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Furstenberg, Frank, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and S. Philip Morgan. 1987. Adolescent Mothers in Later Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Gotlib, Ian H., and Blair Wheaton (Eds.). 1997. Stress and Adversity over the Life Course. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

October 29: Transition to Adulthood  

Required:

Clarkberg, Marin. 1999. “The Price of Partnering: The Role of Economic Well-Being in Young Adults’ First Union Experiences.” Social Forces 77(3):945-68.

Furstenberg. Frank. 2000. “The Sociology of Adolescence and Youth in the 1990s: A Critical Commentary.” Journal of Marriage and the Family 62(4): 896-910.

Goldscheider, Frances and Julie DaVanzo. 1989. “Pathways to Independent Living in Early Adulthood: Marriage, Semiautonomy, and Premarital Residential Independence.” Demography 26:597-614.

Hauser, Robert M. and Douglas K. Anderson. 1991. “Post-High School Plans and Aspirations of Black and White High School Seniors: 1976-86.” Sociology of Education 64(4):263-77.

Maines, David R. and Monica J. Hardesty. 1987. “Temporality and Gender: Young Adults’ Career and Family Plans.” Social Forces 66(1):102-120.

Morgan, Stephen L. 1996. “Trends in Black-White Differences in Educational Expectations: 1980-92.” Sociology of Education 69: 308-319.

Marini, Margaret Mooney. 1978. “The Transition to Adulthood: Sex Differences in Educational Attainment and Age at Marriage.” American Sociological Review 43:483-507.

Recommended Articles:

Bearman, Peter S. and Hannah Bruckner. 2001. “Promising the Future: Virginity Pledges and First Intercourse.” American Journal of Sociology 106 (4): 859-912.

Hogan, Dennis and Nan Astone. 1986. “The Transition to Adulthood.” Annual Review of Sociology 12:109-130.

Longmore, Monica A., Wendy D. Manning, Peggy C. Giordano, and Jennifer L. Rudolph. 2004. “Self-Esteem, Depressive Symptoms and Adolescents’ Sexual Onset.” Social Psychology Quarterly 67: 279-295.

Rosenbaum, James E., Takehiko Kariya, Rick Settersten, and Tony Maier. 1990. “Market and Network Theories of the Transition from High School to Work.” Annual Review of Sociology 16:263-99.

Settersten, Richard A., Jr., 1998. “A Time to Leave Home and A Time Never to Return? Age Constraints on the Living Arrangements of Young Adults.” Social Forces 76(4):1373-1400.

Recommended Books:

Modell, John. 1989. Into One’s Own: From Youth to Adulthood in the United States, 1920-1975. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Mortimer, Jeylan F., and Reed W. Larson. 2002. The Changing Adolescent Experience: Societal Trends and the Transition to Adulthood. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Osgood, D. Wayne, E. Michael Foster, Constance Flanagan, and Gretchen R. Ruth (Eds.). 2005. On Your Own Without a Net: The Transition to Adulthood for Vulnerable Populations. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Settersten, Richard A., Jr., Frank F. Furstenberg Jr., and Ruben M. Rumbaut (Eds.) On the Frontier of Adulthood: Theory, Research, and Public Policy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Simmons, Roberta and Dale Blyth. 1987. Moving into Adolescence. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.

November 5: “Non-Normative” and “Off-Time” Transitions and Trajectories in Young Adulthood

Required:

Astone, Nan Marie and Sara S. McLanahan. 1994. “Family Structure, Residential Mobility and School Dropout: A Research Note.” Demography 31(4):575-584.

Bruckner, Hannah, and Karl Ulrich Mayer. 2004. “The De-Standardization of the Life Course: What it Might Mean? And, if it Means Anything, Whether it Actually Took Place?” Advances in Life Course Research.

Ensminger, Margaret E., and Anita L. Slusarcick. 1992. “Paths to High School Graduation or Dropout: A Longitudinal Study of a First-Grade Cohort.” Sociology of Education 65(2):95-113.

Furstenberg, Frank Jr., Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and S. Phillip Morgan. 1987. “Adolescent Mothers and their Children in Later Life.” Family Planning Perspectives 19: 142-51.

Giordano, Peggy C., Stephen A. Cernkovich, and Jennifer L. Rudolph. 2002. “Gender, Crime, and Desistance: Toward a Theory of Cognitive Transformation.” American Journal of Sociology 107(4): 990-1064.

Hagan, John. 1997. “Defiance and Despair: Subcultural and Structural Linkages between Delinquency and Despair in the Life Course.” Social Forces 76(1):119-34.

Hogan, Dennis P. 1980. “The Transition to Adulthood as a Career Contingency.” American Sociological Review 45: 261-276

Recommended Articles:

Morgan, S. Philip and Ronald C. Rindfuss. 1999. “Reexamining the Link of Early Childbearing to Marriage and Subsequent Fertility.” Demography 36(1):59-75.

Sampson, Robert and John Laub. 1992. “Crime and Deviance over the Life Course.” Annual Review of Sociology 18:63-84.

Schnittker, Jason and Andrea John. 2007. “Enduring Stigma: The Long-Term Effects of Incarceration on Health.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 48: 115-130.

Uggen, Christopher. 2000. “Work as a Turning Point in the Life Course of Criminals.” American Sociological Review 65(4): 529-560.

Recommended Books:

Furstenberg, Frank F., Jr. 1976. Unplanned Parenthood: The Social Consequences of Teenage Childbearing. New York: Free Press.

November 12: Work Transitions and Trajectories

Required:

Budig, Michelle J., and Paula England. 2001. “The Wage Penalty for Motherhood.” American Sociological Review 66:. 204-225.

Han, Shin-Kap and Phyllis Moen. 1999. “Clocking Out: Temporal Patterning of Retirement.” American Journal of Sociology 105(1):191-236.

McBrier, Debra Branch, and George Wilson. 2004. “Going Down? Race and Downward Occupational Mobility for White-Collar Workers in the 1990s.” Work and Occupations 31: 283-322.

Newman, Katherine S. 1988. Falling from Grace: The Experience of Downward Mobility in the American Middle Class. New York: Vintage Press. Ch. 2 “The Extent of Downward Mobility” (pp. 20-41) and Ch. 4 “The Downwardly Mobile Family” (pp.95-142).

Pienta, Amy Mehraban and Mark D. Hayward. 2002. “Who Expects to Continue Working After Age 62? The Retirement Plans of Couples.” Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences 57: S199-S208

Presser, Harriet. 2004. “The Economy that Never Sleeps.” Contexts.

Stier, Haya, Noah Lewin-Epstein, and Michael Braun. 2001. “Welfare Regimes, Family-Supportive Policies, and Women’s Employment along the Life Course.” American Journal of Sociology 106 (6): 1731-60.

Recommended Articles:

Atchley, Robert C. 1982. “Retirement as a Social Institution.”

Dechter, Aimee R., and Glen H. Elder, Jr. 2004. 

Rosenfeld, Rachel.  1992. 

Wilensky, Harold L. 1961. 

Recommended Books:

略。

November 19:Class cancelled. Happy Thanksgiving!

November 26: Family Transitions in Adulthood

Required:

Manning, Wendy D., Monica A. Longmore, and Peggy C. Giordano. 2007. “The Changing Institution of Marriage: Adolescents’ Expectations to Cohabit and Marry.” Journal of Marriage and Family 69: 559-575.

Manning, Wendy D., and Pamela Smock. 2005. “Measuring and Modeling Cohabitation: New Perspectives from Qualitative Data.” Journal of Marriage and the Family, 67 (4): 989-1002.

Nomaguchi, Kei, and Melissa A. Milkie. 2003. 

Oppenheimer, Valerie Kincaide. 1988. “A Theory of Marriage Timing.

Settersten, Richard and Gunhild Hagestad. 1996. “What’s the Latest? Cultural Age Deadlines for Family Transitions.” The Gerontologist 36(2):178-88.

South, Scott and Glenna Spitze. 1986. “Determinants of Divorce over the Marital Life Course.” American Sociological Review 51:583-90.

Sweeney, Megan. 2002. “Two Decades of Family Change: The Shifting Economic Foundations of Marriage.” 

Sweeney, Megan M., and Julie A. Phillips. 2004. “Understanding Racial Differences in Marital Disruption: Recent Trends and Explanations.” Journal of Marriage and Family 66: 639–650.

Recommended Articles:

Bennett, Neil. 1989. “The Divergence of Black and White Marriage Patterns.” 

Carr, Deborah, James S. House, Ronald C. Kessler, Randolph M. Nesse, John Sonnega, and Camille Wortman. 2000. “Marital Quality and Psychological Adjustment to Widowhood Among Older Adults: A Longitudinal Analysis.” Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 55B(4):S197-207.

Coleman, Marilyn, Lawrence Ganong, and Mark Fine. 2000.

Glick, Paul. 1947. “The Family Life Cycle.

Teachman, Jay D., L.M. Therow, and K.D. Crowder. 2000. 

Recommended Books:

略。

December 3: Death, Dying and End-of-Life Issues

Required:

Carr, Deborah. 2007. “Death & Dying.” Pp. 972-975 in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by George Ritzer. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

Carstensen, Laura, Helene Fung, and Susan T. Charles. 2003. 

George, Linda K. 2002. “Research Design in End-of-Life Research: State of Science.” The Gerontologist 42 (Special Issue): 86-98.

Hallberg, Ingalil R. 2004. 

Umberson, Debra and Meichu D. Chen. 1994. 

Zimmermann, Camilla and Gary Rodin. 2004.

Recommended Articles:

Carr, Deborah. 2003. “A ‘Good Death’ for Whom? Quality of Spouse's Death and Psychological Distress among Older Widowed Persons.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 44: 215-32.

Carr, Deborah, James S. House, Camille B. Wortman, Randolph M. Nesse, and Ronald C. Kessler. 2001. 

Elwart, Felix and Nicholas A. Christakis. 2006. 

Pessin, Hayley B., Barry Rosenfeld, and William Breitbart. 2002. “Assessing Psychological Distress near the End of Life.” American Behavioral Scientist 46: 357-72.

Recommended Books:

Archer, John. 1999. The Nature of Grief: The Evolution and Psychology of Reactions to Loss. New York: Routledge.

Kubler-Ross, Elizabeth. 1975. Death: The Final Stage of Growth. New York: Simon & Schuster.

December 10:Student Presentations

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