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Life Course Studies

Študije življenjskega poteka

Course credits:

6.00 ECTS / 60 (30 hours of lectures, 0 hours of exercises, 30 hours of seminars, 0 hours other forms of work)

Course holder:

doc. dr. Andreja Živoder

Type:

Required

Language:

English

Semester:

First semester

Study degree

1. level

    Course execution:

  • Undergraduate Programme of Sociology

Prerequisits:

There are no special prerequisites for participation

Objectives and competences

The aim: The aim of the course is for students to learn in systematic way about main theoretical perspectives and topics of life course studies, transitions and various life periods. The aim of the course is also to inform the students about the ways in which various social, historical, cultural, political factors form and influence subjective structures, identities and experiences of people in creating individual life courses. Competences: Students gain ability for critical approach and theoretical reflection of individual phenomena in life courses in relation to social phenomena and their embeddedness in various institutional, political, social, economic explanatory frameworks. Students learn basic theoretical, conceptual and empirical knowledge from the field of life courses; they are able to analyse key phenomena and social relations connected to life courses; they develop skills for independent research and analytic work, including with searching for and use of relevant data.

Content (Syllabus outline)

Students learn about theoretical conceptualization of life course approach as well as methodologies and techniques of researching life course and transitions in social sciences. The life course approach provides us with a holistic, interdisciplinary framework for exploring human lives from birth to death, crossing the boundaries of different disciplines, academic fields and cultural contexts, focusing on exploring the ways in which chronological age, life transitions, attitudes and social change shape our lives from birth to death. The course builds on theoretical and empirical findings about the characteristics and changes in life courses and transitions in modern Western societies (e.g. individualization, demographic changes, changes in family life, education, labour and employment sphere etc.), which significantly change modern life course from its linear form with known transitions to plural life course, which becomes unpredictable and nonlinear. The course includes the following themes and concepts of life course: interplay of human lives and historical time (cultural background), timing of lives (strategical adaptation), linked or interdependent lives (social integration), and human agency in making choices (individual agency), key life events, transitions and periods (childhood, youth, adulthood, late adulthood or old age).

Intended learning outcomes:

Students learn about and understand main theoretical perspectives and topics from the field of life course studies and basic methodology of life course research. They gain information about how social, historical, cultural, political factors influence subjective structures, identities and experiences of individuals in everyday life. They gain ability of critical and reflexive analysis of individual phenomena in life courses and the related social phenomena and their embeddedness in various institutional, political, social, economic explanatory frameworks.

Learning and teaching methods:

Lectures, seminars, work in small groups, individual work of students; explanation, discussion/debate, analysis of texts, case study, assignments,public speaking, guest lectures.

Assessment

30 % Seminar paper, project or research work, essay or case study grade. 70 % Exam

Obligatory literature

1. Unit of obligatory literature:


Author: Ule, Mirjana
Title: Za vedno mladi? : socialna psihologija odraščanja »
Publishing: Ljubljana : Fakulteta za družbene vede, 2008
ISBN: 978-961-235-356-8
COBISS.SI-ID: 243068160 - Record/s in the catalog ODKJG »
E-edition: https://zebra.fdv.uni-lj.si

2. Unit of obligatory literature:


Author: Hunt, Stephen
Title: The life course : a sociological introduction »
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publishing: London ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, cop. 2017, 2005
ISBN: 978-1-1375-2197-2
COBISS.SI-ID: 30534749 - Record/s in the catalog ODKJG »
E-edition: http://nukweb.nuk.uni-lj.si/login?url=https://www.vlebooks.com/product/openreader?id=unilj&accId=9486805&isbn=9781137521972
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Additional literature

1. Unit of additional literature:


Author: Elder, Glen H. (ur.); Giele, Janet Zollinger (ur.)
Title: The craft of life course research »
Publishing: New York ; London : The Guilford Press, cop. 2009
ISBN: 978-1-60623-322-1
COBISS.SI-ID: 202925827 - Record/s in the catalog ODKJG »
E-edition: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/fdv-odkjg/detail.action?docID=460406

2. Unit of additional literature:


Author: Hockey, Jenny; James, Allison
Title: Social identities across the life course »
Publishing: Basingstoke (Hampshire) ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, cop. 2003
ISBN: 978-1-4039-1399-9
COBISS.SI-ID: 22312029 - Record/s in the catalog ODKJG »
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3. Unit of additional literature:


Author: Quadagno, Jill S.
Title: Aging and the life course : an introduction to social gerontology »
Edition: 8th ed., international student ed.
Publishing: New York (NY) : McGraw Hill, cop. 2022
ISBN: 978-1-264-36439-8
COBISS.SI-ID: 208709891 - Record/s in the catalog ODKJG »
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Hot to aquire credits:

For full study

  1. Lectures, seminars and individual consultations
    Research paper, resarch project, seminar paper or assignments
    Written exam, oral exam, written/oral exam or 2 midterm exams

Curriculum was last modified on: 26.06.2024