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Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1 -- Introduction: The Dominance of Biomedicine and Colonisisation of Life Course -- The Bio-Medical Model: Biological and Psychological Aging - Science of Aging? -- The Dark Side of Bio-Medical Assumptions -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 -- The Global Context of Aging -- Introduction -- Global Aging -- Americas -- Europe -- Africa -- Chapter 3 -- Age, Professional Power and Social Policy in the United Kingdom -- The Disciplinary Focus of Old Age -- Functionalist Analysis of Old Age -- Political Economy of Old Age -- Feminization of Old Age -- Foucault and Old Age: A New Domain of Theorizing Aging -- Introducing Foucauldian Gerontology -- A History of the Present: The Rise of Social Work with Older People -- From Social Work to Care Management -- Social Policy for Older People in the United Kingdom -- A Foucauldian Analysis of Social Policy for Older People: The Case of the NHS and Community Care Act -- The Foucauldian Notion of Governmentality -- Examples of Implementing Policy and Practice for Older People -- Chapter 4 -- Aging, Foucault and the Life Course -- Introduction -- The Power of Michel Foucault -- Modern Social Work in England -- Social Work and Surveillance -- Social Work, Power and Discretion -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 -- Trust, the Life Course and Social Relations -- Navigating the Conceptual Complexity of Trust -- Trust: Individuals, Organisations, Community and Systems -- Implications of Trust in Health and Social Care -- Linking Professional Authority with Trust and Governmentality -- Constructing Professional Authority Through Governmentality -- Conclusion -- Neoliberalism, Aging, and the Family -- Social Democracy, Aging, and the Family -- "Grand-Parenting" Policy -- Towards Diverse Narrative Streams? -- Conclusion -- References -- Author's Contact Information -- Index -- Blank Page

Constructing the Life Course offers a social constructionist perspective on personal experience through time. The text shows the variety of ways people use life course imagery in their everyday lives and makes a useful addition to family studies or gerontology courses

Lone parenthood is an increasing reality in the 21st century, reinforced by the diffusion of divorce and separation. This volume provides a comprehensive portrait of lone parenthood at the beginning of the XXI century from a life course perspective. The contributions included in this volume examine the dynamics of lone parenthood in the life course and explore the trajectories of lone parents in terms of income, poverty, labour, market behaviour, wellbeing, and health. Throughout, comparative analyses of data from countries as France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, Hungary, and Australia help portray how lone parenthood varies between regions, cultures, generations, and institutional settings. The findings show that one-parent households are inhabited by a rather heterogeneous world of mothers and fathers facing different challenges. Readers will not only discover the demographics and diversity of lone parents, but also the variety of social representations and discourses about the changing phenomenon of lone parenthood. The book provides a mixture of qualitative and quantitative studies on lone parenthood. Using large scale and longitudinal panel and register data, the reader will gain insight in complex processes across time. More qualitative case studies on the other hand discuss the definition of lone parenthood, the public debate around it, and the social and subjective representations of lone parents themselves. This book aims at sociologists, demographers, psychologists, political scientists, family therapists, and policy makers who want to gain new insights into one of the most striking changes in family forms over the last 50 years. This book is open access under a CC BY License

Most people engage in crime at some point in their lives, but why does almost everybody stop soon after? And, why do a small number of offenders persist in crime? These two questions constitute the core of the field often known as life-course criminology. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to life-course criminology. It covers the dominant theories and methodologies in the field and equips you with all you need to succeed in your studies on the subject. The book: *Discusses the methodologies of life-course and longitudinal research *Explains and critiques the major theories of life-course criminology *Considers the issues of risk, prediction, onset, persistence and desistance of criminal activity *Draws on research from studies in Europe, the UK, US and Australia, including the Stockholm ...

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This paper investigates how familialist repronormativity, pro-natalism and reproductive autonomy feature as normative models for reproductive life courses in Germany's current landscape of reproduction policies. Life course research has largely overlooked reproduction as a life course sphere, which is subject to state intervention and strong institutionalised normative assumptions about whether, when and how people should procreate. Drawing on policy documents and a new policy database, this paper compares the current state of reproduction policies in five policy fields (sex education, contraception, abortion, medically assisted reproduction and pregnancy care) to ideal-typical normative orientations towards reproductive life courses. The result is a more systematic understanding of the multidimensionality that is inherent to "life course modelling" (Leisering 2003) of the reproductive life sphere.