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Connecting Life Span Development with the Sociology of the Life Course: A New Direction
- Source :
- Sociology
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- The life course has become a topic of growing interest within the social sciences. Attempts to link this sub-discipline with life span developmental psychology have been called for but with little sign of success. In this paper, we seek to address three interlinked issues concerning the potential for a more productive interchange between life course sociology and life span psychology. The first is to try to account for the failure of these two sub-disciplines to achieve any deepening engagement with each other, despite the long-expressed desirability of that goal; the second is to draw attention to the scope for enriching the sociology of the life course through Erik Erikson’s model of life span development; and the last is the potential for linking Eriksonian theory with current debates within mainstream sociology about the processes involved in ‘individualisation’ and ‘self-reflexivity’ as an alternative entry point to bring together these two fields of work.
- Subjects :
- Erik Erikson
life course sociology
Sociology and Political Science
Scope (project management)
05 social sciences
Sign (semiotics)
Identity (social science)
Erikson's stages of psychosocial development
life span psychology
reflexivity
050109 social psychology
Entry point
Articles
0506 political science
Epistemology
Reflexivity
050602 political science & public administration
Mainstream
Life course approach
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Sociology
identity
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00380385
- Volume :
- 50
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sociology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1a7a13ce4ce09b171c63e860815e9cd4