Résumé La démographie historique semble avoir pris un tournant «micro» en se
concentrant de plus en plus sur l'analyse des parcours de vie. Si l'on suit ses avocats, il ne s' …

Today, the life course perspective is perhaps the pre-eminent theoretical orientation in the
study of lives, but this has not always been the case. The life histories and future trajectories …

Textbooks tell us that demographers study population change, and that such change is
brought about by developments in the three basic components of fertility, mortality and …

Résumé Le parcours de vie constitue un paradigme pluridisciplinaire sur les processus
d'avancée en âge et leur structuration. L'article restitue des débats méthodologiques et …

Advances in Life Course Research is making an important transition. Growing up from a
successful annual book series, brilliantly and carefully developed under the guidance of …

The questions posed by life course researchers often differ in fundamental ways from those
posed by sociologists, developmental psychologists, or economists (Elder, 1998; Mayer & …

Abstract The Handbook of the Life Course, published in 2003 (“Handbook I”), aspired to
provide “an overview of key theoretical perspectives, concepts, and methodological …

The quantitative analysis of life courses has to deal with a complex pattern of interrelated
events and trajectories. Such a complex pattern needs complex measurement tools, even if …

Empirical life course research is based on prospective or retrospective longitudinal micro
data and nationally representative samples of birth cohorts or larger populations. This field …