Theorizing the Life Course: New Twists in the Paths, Study notes of Socialization and the Life Course

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As reflected in the title, this chapter is intended as a refinement and update of Dannefer and Unhtenberg’s (1999) chapter titled “Paths of the Life Co a” {hereafter referred to as Paths} published in the original Handbook of Theories of Aging. Since that time, interest in the life course perspective (hereafter LCP) has continued to flourish and expand. Its growth has been both substantive and methodological and is increasingiy global in scope. Substantively, applica- tions of the LCP now extend well beyond its original linkages to the domains of age and family to other substantive areas, including health and physical functioning (Ferraro & Kelley-Moore, 2003), work and education (Dupre 2007; Acknowledgment: We would like to thank Peter Uhlenberg for corimenis on an earlier version of this paper. We also thank Antje Daub for research assistance and Sherri Brown, Melinda Laraco, and Mary Elien Stone for editorial assistance,