Life course research in perspective
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Answer each question. Maximum 750 words all together
1. How does this article relate to the book chapter about individualization by Melinda Mills (2007)? At least go into the findings of Van Winkle and Fasang and how these findings fit into the work by Mills.
2. This study is obviously strongly quantitative in nature. To what extent do you think that qualitative methods could have been an added value for answering the research question posed in this article? Please motivate your answer.
3. Pick one of the life course research principles that is not prominent in the article and explain how the authors could have (theoretically and empirically) incorporated this principle in their study.
Literature:
Van Winkle, Z. & Fasang, A.E. (2017). Complexity in employment life courses in Europe in the twentieth century – Large cross-national differences but little change across birth cohorts. Social Forces 96(1), 1-30.
Other sources:
Mills, M., 2007. Individualization and the life course: Toward a theoretical model and empirical evidence. In Contested individualization (pp. 61-79). Palgrave Macmillan, New York.
Elder, G.H., Johnson, M.K. and Crosnoe, R., 2003. The emergence and development of life course theory. In Handbook of the life course (pp. 3-19). Springer, Boston, MA
Answer each question. Maximum 750 words all together
1. How does this article relate to the book chapter about individualization by Melinda Mills (2007)? At least go into the findings of Van Winkle and Fasang and how these findings fit into the work by Mills.
2. This study is obviously strongly quantitative in nature. To what extent do you think that qualitative methods could have been an added value for answering the research question posed in this article? Please motivate your answer.
3. Pick one of the life course research principles that is not prominent in the article and explain how the authors could have (theoretically and empirically) incorporated this principle in their study.
Literature:
Van Winkle, Z. & Fasang, A.E. (2017). Complexity in employment life courses in Europe in the twentieth century – Large cross-national differences but little change across birth cohorts. Social Forces 96(1), 1-30.
Other sources:
Mills, M., 2007. Individualization and the life course: Toward a theoretical model and empirical evidence. In Contested individualization (pp. 61-79). Palgrave Macmillan, New York.
Elder, G.H., Johnson, M.K. and Crosnoe, R., 2003. The emergence and development of life course theory. In Handbook of the life course (pp. 3-19). Springer, Boston, MA
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