Martin Diewald, Anne Goedicke, and Karl Ulrich Mayer (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804752084
- eISBN:
- 9780804779456
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804752084.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Stratification, Inequality, and Mobility
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was the beginning of one of the most interesting natural experiments in recent history. The East German transition from a Communist state to part of the Federal ...
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The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was the beginning of one of the most interesting natural experiments in recent history. The East German transition from a Communist state to part of the Federal Republic of Germany abruptly created a new social order as old institutions were abolished and new counterparts imported. This unique situation provides an exceptional opportunity to examine the central tenets of life-course sociology. The empirical chapters of this book draw a comprehensive picture of life-course transformation, demonstrating how the combination of life-course dynamics coupled with an extraordinary pace of system change affect individual lives. How much turbulence was created by the transition and how much stability was preserved? How did the qualifications and resources acquired before 1989 influence the fortunes in the restructured economy? How did the privatization and reorganization of firms impact individuals? Did the transformation experiences differ by age/cohort and gender? How stable were social networks at work and in the family? Were personality characteristics important mediators of post-1989 success or failure, or were they rather changed by them? How specific were the East German life trajectories in comparison with those of Poland and West Germany?Less
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was the beginning of one of the most interesting natural experiments in recent history. The East German transition from a Communist state to part of the Federal Republic of Germany abruptly created a new social order as old institutions were abolished and new counterparts imported. This unique situation provides an exceptional opportunity to examine the central tenets of life-course sociology. The empirical chapters of this book draw a comprehensive picture of life-course transformation, demonstrating how the combination of life-course dynamics coupled with an extraordinary pace of system change affect individual lives. How much turbulence was created by the transition and how much stability was preserved? How did the qualifications and resources acquired before 1989 influence the fortunes in the restructured economy? How did the privatization and reorganization of firms impact individuals? Did the transformation experiences differ by age/cohort and gender? How stable were social networks at work and in the family? Were personality characteristics important mediators of post-1989 success or failure, or were they rather changed by them? How specific were the East German life trajectories in comparison with those of Poland and West Germany?
Laura M. Carpenter and John DeLamater
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814772522
- eISBN:
- 9780814723814
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814772522.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Marriage and the Family
This chapter provides a comprehensive, general conceptual framework that can be used to investigate sexual phenomena. This framework, which is called the gendered sexuality over the life course ...
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This chapter provides a comprehensive, general conceptual framework that can be used to investigate sexual phenomena. This framework, which is called the gendered sexuality over the life course (GSLC) model, draws on influential approaches and recent developments from life course sociology, feminist theory, and the scripting approach to sexuality. It starts from the premise that events at different stages of life must be understood as fundamentally connected. Additionally, it conceptualizes gender and sexuality as jointly constructed within specific social-structural contexts and sexual identity as developing over, and influencing experiences across, the life course. More specifically, the GSLC framework posits that sexual beliefs and behaviors result from individuals' lifelong accumulations of advantageous and disadvantageous experiences—social, psychological, and physiological—and their adoption or rejection of sexual scripts within specific sociohistorical contexts.Less
This chapter provides a comprehensive, general conceptual framework that can be used to investigate sexual phenomena. This framework, which is called the gendered sexuality over the life course (GSLC) model, draws on influential approaches and recent developments from life course sociology, feminist theory, and the scripting approach to sexuality. It starts from the premise that events at different stages of life must be understood as fundamentally connected. Additionally, it conceptualizes gender and sexuality as jointly constructed within specific social-structural contexts and sexual identity as developing over, and influencing experiences across, the life course. More specifically, the GSLC framework posits that sexual beliefs and behaviors result from individuals' lifelong accumulations of advantageous and disadvantageous experiences—social, psychological, and physiological—and their adoption or rejection of sexual scripts within specific sociohistorical contexts.
