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The Sociology of the Life Course and Life Span Psychology: Integrated Paradigm or Complementing Pathways?

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  • Martin Diewald
  • Karl Ulrich Mayer

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The psychology of the life span and the sociology of the life course share the same object of scientific inquiry - the lives of women and men from birth to death. Both are part of an interdisciplinary field focused on individual development and life course patterns which also includes social demography and human capital economics. However, a closer look shows that life span psychology and life course sociology now to stand further apart than in the seventies. In this paper we reassess how this divergence can be understood in terms of necessary and legitimate strengths of both approaches, as well as avoidable weaknesses which could be overcome in the future by more re-combination and integration.

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  • Martin Diewald & Karl Ulrich Mayer, 2008. "The Sociology of the Life Course and Life Span Psychology: Integrated Paradigm or Complementing Pathways?," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin 772, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.
    • Handle: RePEc:diw:diwwpp:dp772
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    1. Jürgen Schupp & C. Katharina Spieß & Gert G. Wagner, 2008. "Die verhaltenswissenschaftliche Weiterentwicklung des Erhebungsprogramms des SOEP," Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly Journal of Economic Research, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research, vol. 77(3), pages 63-76.
    2. Scheiner, Joachim, 2014. "Gendered key events in the life course: effects on changes in travel mode choice over time," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 37(C), pages 47-60.
    3. Till Kaiser, 2012. "Haben gebildetere Mütter gewissenhaftere Kinder?: Soziale Herkunft und Persönlichkeitsentwicklung im frühkindlichen Alter," SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research 509, DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).

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