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Time, human agency, and social change: perspectives on the life course
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The life course has emerged over the past 30 years as a major research paradigm as mentioned in this paper, and distinctive themes include the relation between human lives and a changing society, the timing of lives, linked or interdependent lives, and human agency.Abstract:
The life course has emerged over the past 30 years as a major research paradigm. Distinctive themes include the relation between human lives and a changing society, the timing of lives, linked or interdependent lives, and human agency. Two lines of research converged in the formation of this paradigm during the 1960s; one was associated with an older «social relationship» tradition that featured intergenerational studies, and the other with more contemporary thinking about age. The emergence of a life course paradigm has been coupled with a notable decline in socialization as a research framework and with its incorporation by other theoriesread more
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What is agency
Mustafa Emirbayer,Ann Mische +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conceptualize agency as a temporally embedded process of social engagement, informed by the past (in its "iterational" or habitual aspect) but also oriented toward the future (as a projective capacity to imagine alternative possibilities) and toward the present, as a practical-evaluative capacity to contextualize past habits and future projects within the contingencies of the moment.
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Toward a Psychology of Human Agency
TL;DR: The core properties of human agency are discussed, including its different forms it takes, its ontological and epistemological status, its development and role in causal structures, its growing primacy in the coevolution process, and its influential exercise at individual and collective levels across diverse spheres of life and cultural systems.
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The Emergence and Development of Life Course Theory
TL;DR: The life histories and future trajectories of individuals and groups were largely neglected by early sociological research as discussed by the authors, and the life course perspective is perhaps the pre-eminent theoretical orientation in the study of lives.
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Life Span Theory in Developmental Psychology
TL;DR: In this paper, five sequential but interrelated steps are presented to examine psychological theories of lifespan development and two areas of human development are emphasized, intellectual functioning and personality, to illustrate lifespan research and theory.
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A life course approach to chronic disease epidemiology
John Lynch,George Davey Smith +1 more
TL;DR: It is underscore that a life course approach offers a way to conceptualize how underlying socio-environmental determinants of health, experienced at different life course stages, can differentially influence the development of chronic diseases, as mediated through proximal specific biological processes.
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Social Foundations of Thought and Action : A Social Cognitive Theory
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