Digital Inequality Across Major Life Realms

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (9) ◽  
pp. 1159-1166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Robinson ◽  
Wenhong Chen ◽  
Jeremy Schulz ◽  
Aneka Khilnani
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Exogenous Factor ◽  
Major Life ◽  
Digital Inequality ◽  
Behavioral Scientist ◽  
New Frontier ◽  
Parenting Students ◽  
The Life Course

This issue of the American Behavioral Scientist probes digital inequality as both an endogenous and exogenous factor shaping key life realms and social processes. These include aging and the life course, family and parenting, students and education, prisoner rehabilitation, and social class. The relationships between digital inequality and these life realms are explored in different institutional and national contexts. By drawing connections between digital inequality and these distinct—yet interconnected—life realms, this issue marks a new frontier in the study of digital inequality.

scholarly journals “They Live in Indifference Together”: Marriage Mobility in Zeeland, The Netherlands, 1796–1922

2005 ◽  
Vol 50 (S13) ◽  
pp. 247-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilde Bras ◽  
Jan Kok
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Class ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Mixed Marriage ◽  
Government Report ◽  
Logistic Regressions ◽  
The Life Course

This article investigates developments in and antecedents of socially mixed marriage in the rural Dutch province of Zeeland during the long nineteenth century, taking individual and family histories, community contexts, and temporal influences into account. A government report of the 1850s said of Zeeland that farmers and workers lived “in indifference together”. However, our analysis of about 163,000 marriage certificates reveals that 30 to 40 per cent of these rural inhabitants continued to marry outside their original social class. Multivariate logistic regressions show that heterogamous marriages can be explained first and foremost by the life-course experiences of grooms and brides prior to marriage. Previous transitions in their occupational careers (especially to non-rural occupations for grooms, and to service for brides), in their migration trajectories (particularly moves to urban areas), and changes in the sphere of personal relationships (entering widowhood, ageing) are crucial in understanding marriage mobility.

Social class and inequality in later life

2020 ◽  
pp. 19-40
Author(s):  
Chris Gilleard ◽  
Paul Higgs
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Cumulative Advantage ◽  
Social Gerontology ◽  
The Life Course

This chapter begins with a consideration of models and theories concerning social class. It focuses upon the distinctions between relational and gradational models of class. It then explores how these different models seem to be articulated in later life and the model of cumulative advantage and disadvantage employed in much social gerontology. Following from such considerations, it explores both the connections and the disjunctions that exists between working and post working life. The chapter concludes with a consideration of how consumption and consumerism have grown in significance as markers of distinction and determinants of difference, not just in later life but throughout the life course.

scholarly journals Social class and infirmity. The role of social class over the life-course

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 169-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carin Lennartsson ◽  
Harpa Sif Eyjólfsdóttir ◽  
Roger Keller Celeste ◽  
Johan Fritzell
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Life Course ◽  
The Life Course

Social class across the life course and physical activity at age 34 years in the 1970 British birth cohort

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (9) ◽  
pp. 641-647.e1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl-Etienne Juneau ◽  
Alice Sullivan ◽  
Brian Dodgeon ◽  
Sylvana Côté ◽  
George B. Ploubidis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Birth Cohort ◽  
The Life Course

scholarly journals OLDER WOMEN'S EXPERIENCES OF AGING: THE PHYSICAL, THE PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND THE SOCIAL

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S212-S213
Author(s):  
Nicky J Newton
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Life Transitions ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Major Life ◽  
Life Course Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Qualitative Interview Study ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Major Life Transitions

Abstract According to the life course perspective (Settersten, 2003), major life transitions are embedded in contexts shaped by personal history and social circumstances “as natural as the changing seasons” (Miller, 2010, p.663). Aging itself is perhaps the epitome of all transitions: a relatively measured movement through a series of situations, conditions, and social roles (Hettich, 2010); a transition that particularly lends itself to a life course approach. In this qualitative interview study, 37 women (Mage = 72.27) responded to questions regarding their experiences of the physical, psychological and social aspects of aging. While themes of inevitability and physical health were evident, the highly-personalized nature of aging was also underscored through individual themes of invisibility, freedom from expectations, fear of cognitive decline, and the quality and maintenance of friendships. Similarities and differences in women’s experience of aging are compared; the need to contextualize aging within the life course is discussed.

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