Researching the Lifecourse: Critical Reflections from the Social Sciences

by Nancy Worth, Irene Hardill

Overview

The lifecourse perspective continues to be an important subject in the social sciences. Researching the Lifecourse offers a distinctive approach in that it truly covers the lifecourse (childhood, adulthood and older age), focusing on innovative methods and case study examples from a variety of European and North American contexts. This original approach connects theory and practice from across the social sciences by situating methodology and research design within relevant conceptual frameworks. This diverse collection features methods that are linked to questions of time, space and mobilities while providing practitioners with practical detail in each chapter.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781447334484
Publisher:	Policy Press
Publication date:	06/01/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	NOOK Book
Pages:	240
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Nancy Worth is a Banting Fellow in the School of Geography and Earth Sciences at McMaster University, Canada. Co-editor of Intergenerational Space (Routledge, 2014), her work focuses on the geographies of youth and young adulthood. Irene Hardill is Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Centre for Civil Society and Citizenship, Northumbria University, UK. Co-author of Enterprising Care (Policy Press, 2011), her work focuses on theorising work (paid and unpaid).

Table of Contents

Introduction - Nancy Worth & Irene Hardill

Part I: Time
Time and the lifecourse: perspectives from qualitative longitudinal research - Bren Neale
Time in mixed methods longitudinal research: working across written narratives and large-scale panel survey data to investigate attitudes to volunteering - Rose Lindsey, Elizabeth Metcalfe & Rosalind Edwards
A restudy of young workers from the 1960s: researching intersections of work and lifecourse in one locality over 50 years - John Goodwin & Henrietta O’Connor
A method for collecting lifecourse data: assessing the utility of the lifegrid - Ann Del Bianco

Part II: Space & place
Life geohistories: examining formative experiences and geographies - Bisola Falola
Using mapmaking to research the geographies of young children affected by political violence - Bree Akesson
Keeping in touch: studying the personal communities of women in their fifties - Sophie Bowlby
Triangulation with softGIS in lifecourse research: situated action possibilities and embodied knowledge - Kaisa Schmidt-Thomé

Part III: Mobilities
Using a life history approach within transnational ethnography: a case study of Korean New Zealander returnees - Jane Yeonjae Lee
Sensing sense and mobility at the end of the lifecourse: a methodology of embodied interaction - Anne Leonora Blaakilde
Event history approach to life spaces in French-speaking research - Françoise Dureau, Matthieu Giroud & Christophe Imbert
Using an intersectional lifecourse approach to understand the migration of the highly skilled - Melissa Kelly

Editorial Reviews

"This edited volume clearly contributes to the debate on the role of time, space, and mobility at different stages of the lifecourse and promises to be of great interest for social science researchers across the various disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, geography, and demography."

Journal of Population Ageing

“Clearly and engagingly written, this collection illustrates and reflects on diverse methodologies for enriching lifecourse studies. It is a major resource for researchers across the social sciences.

Janice Monk

“A highly provocative and engaging work, raising questions about the epistemology of lifecourse research across themes of time, space, and mobilities.

Jeylan Mortimer

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