SOC246H1 Chapter Notes -System On A Chip
Document Summary
Life course: innovations and challenges for social research. Personality development becomes both a project and a reflexive produce of social demands, indvl decision-making and risk-taking, a process which turns the life course itself into a biographical accomplishment. As modernization continues, life-course arrangements are becoming more dynamic, less standardized, and more self-directed the lc is becoming more fluid due to the chance factor less rigid structure. The emergence of the life course in social sciences has created a number of theoretical and methodological challenges: y life course research has initiated major debates about social structure and indvl agency. A short history: european and north american traditions. Qualitative research methods: a perspective that is complementary to the cohort/life-event approach looks at indvl biographies in order to understand indvl attitudes, interpretations and activities as well as self-concepts connected w. life stages, transitions and durations of status.
