Table of Contents
New frontiers in socialization: an introduction /Timothy J. Owens and Richard A. Settersten, Jr.--Socialization and the life course: new frontiers in theory and research /Richard A. Settersten, Jr.--Self-socialization and post-traditional society /Walter R. Heinz --Life careers and the theory of action /Janet Zollinger Giele --Understanding adaptation to work in adulthood: a contextual developmental approach /Daniel M. Hyson --The relationship of turning points at work to perceptions of psychological growth and change /Elaine Wethington --In the shadows of giants: identity and institution building in the American academic profession /Joseph C. Hermanowicz --Socialization and the family revisited /Norella M. Putney and Vern L. Bengtson --Moving and still: neighborhoods, human development, and the life course /Richard A. Settersten, Jr. and Tanetta E. Andersson --Careers and lives: socialization, structural lag, and gendered ambivalence /Phyllis Moen and Robert M. Orrange --Individual risk for crime is exacerbated in poor familial and neighborhood contexts: the contributions of low birth weight, family adversity, and neighborhood disadvantage to life course-persistent offending /Alex R. Piquero and Brian Lawton --The death of friends in later life /Brian de Vries and Colleen Johnston --Educational participation across the life course: do the rich get richer? /Aaron M. Pallas --The life course as an organizing principle and a socializing resource in modern medicine /Dana Rosenfeld and Eugene B. Gallagher --Die Bildung of the warrior class: socialization and the acquisition of cultural resources /James J. Dowd --Racial and gender differences in the transition to adulthood: a longitudinal study of Philadelphia youth /Julie A. Kmec and Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr.--The imprint of time: historical experiences in the lives of mature adults /Richard A. Settersten, Jr. and Lisa Martin --Social change, the life course, and socialization: biographies of labor market entrants after unification /Susanne Falk and Ansgar Weymann.