Life courses are studied in sociology and neighboring fields as developmental processes,
as culturally and normatively constructed life stages and age roles, as biographical …

▪ Abstract This essay reviews post-1980 research on class stratification, socio-economic
inequalities, and social mobility in the People's Republic of China. Chinese class …

20 世纪80 年代以后出生的“新生代农民工” 现已达到约1 亿人, 成为中国社会转型过程中破除
城乡二元结构, 加快推动城镇化进程的关键人群. 与“老一代农民工” 相比, 新生代农民工的价值 …

This paper estimates the effects on rural education of the send-down movement during the
Cultural Revolution, when about 16 million urban youth were mandated to resettle in the …

The Chinese household registration system (hukou), which divides the population into
“agricultural” and “nonagricultural” sectors, may be the most important determinant of …

生命历程研究最近在国内成为新的热点. 本文简单回顾了1960 年以来生命历程理论的发展脉络,
首先澄清了生命历程与生命周期以及生活史研究的关系, 其次着重介绍了生命历程理论的时间观 …

Life-course ideas focus on the changing contexts of lives and their consequences for human
development and aging. The organizing concepts of the life course, as a theoretical …

Data from a 1996 national probability sample of Chinese men is used to analyze the effect of
family background on occupational mobility in contemporary China, with particular attention …

Rights and Wrongs of Children's Work, authored by an interdisciplinary team of experts,
incorporates recent theoretical advances and experiences to explore the place of labor in …

In recent years, the lifecourse perspective has become a popular theoretical orientation
toward crime. Yet despite its growing importance in the field of criminology, most textbooks …