scholarly journals A home of one’s own? Housing welfare for ‘young adults’ in times of austerity

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleanor Wilkinson ◽  
Iliana Ortega-AlcÁzar
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Housing Allowance ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Single Room ◽  
Shared Property ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Welfare State

This article considers how welfare cuts in ‘austerity Britain’ have impacted young adults’ access to a home of their own, asking at what stage in the life-course should the welfare state be expected to support someone’s residential independence? The article focuses on the 2012 changed age-threshold for the Shared Accommodation Rate of Local Housing Allowance, which meant that single people (without dependants) aged between 25 and 34 are only entitled to claim the cost of a single room in a shared property. This policy has highlighted the issue of forced sharing, and poses questions as to whether a shared property with strangers can necessarily always be considered a home. The article identifies the persistence of normative conceptions of household transition across the life-course. Ultimately the article concludes that these normative assumptions enable policy makers to promote this policy as a matter of ‘fairness’ rather than a form of social injustice.

Achieving Recovery Through Resilience: Insights From Adults in Midlife Living With Anorexia Nervosa

2020 ◽  
pp. 104973232097820
Author(s):  
Leslie A. McCallum ◽  
Ramona Alaggia
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Constructivist Grounded Theory ◽  
Life Course Theory ◽  
Seeking Help ◽  
The Life Course

Despite the high percentage of adults living with anorexia nervosa (AN) over the life course, there is limited understanding of what it means to be living with AN in midlife when the majority of research has focused on adolescents and young adults. As such, clinical practice for individuals in midlife is informed by a severe and enduring AN (SE-AN) framework, which assumes that recovery is not necessarily feasible past young adulthood. This study used constructivist grounded theory methodology to understand the experiences of adults in midlife living with AN. In-depth analyses of 19 participant narratives in midlife show that individuals face barriers to seeking help or remaining in recovery; however, midlife can also act as a significant catalyst toward recovery. Subsequently, there is merit in revisiting the utility of the SE-AN framework in the context of life course theory and exploring resilience-informed approaches in supporting recovery from AN.

scholarly journals Sex and the cost of reproduction through the life course of an extremely long-lived herb

Oecologia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 191 (2) ◽  
pp. 369-375
Author(s):  
Danielle A. Sherman ◽  
Johan P. Dahlgren ◽  
Johan Ehrlén ◽  
María Begoña García
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Cost Of Reproduction ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
The Cost

Celebrating nostalgia or critiquing naivety: Reading pop music reunions through discourses of the fan life course

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Driessen
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Pop Music ◽  
Current Position ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Life Course

This study explores how fans give meaning to pop music reunions through the lens of the life course. It does so through a content analysis of forum comments about TV series The Big Reunion, which reunites chart-topping music acts from the past decades. The fans interpret The Big Reunion in three modes closely related to their life-course position: first, now young adults, the fans read the reunion as a nostalgic phenomenon. Second, they consider the reunion as an ironic event. Third, they question The Big Reunion’s formula by reflecting on it through the prism of their current position in the life course. These readings reveal how the fans celebrate a nostalgic reflection on the pop acts of their youth; yet also offer a critique on their former, ‘naïve’ teenage/child-selves.

Analyzing the Heterogeneous Nature of Inmate Behavior: Trajectories of Prison Misconduct

2017 ◽  
Vol 97 (4) ◽  
pp. 431-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdullah Cihan ◽  
Megan Davidson ◽  
Jonathan Sorensen
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Institutional Misconduct ◽  
Inmate Misconduct ◽  
Prison Misconduct ◽  
Heterogeneous Nature ◽  
State Police ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Offending Patterns ◽  
The Life Course

Researchers have long been interested in stability and changes in offending patterns between and within individuals during the life-course. Using data from the Oregon Department of Corrections and the Oregon State Police, the current study explores misconduct trajectories and also attempts to determine whether certain preprison inmate characteristics specified in the importation model are associated with various misconduct trajectories. Results indicate that there are subgroups of inmates engaged in different patterns of institutional misconduct during the course of years of imprisonment. In addition, certain inmate characteristics can be used to explain the identified heterogeneity in inmate misconduct. Findings from trajectory analyses can be useful to prison officials and policy makers when planning prison services, assistance, and programming for subgroups of inmates.

scholarly journals The Persistent Influence of Socio-Economic Background on Family Formation Pathways and Disadvantage in Young Adulthood

2021 ◽  
pp. 61-77
Author(s):  
Jarl Mooyaart
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Parental Education ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Birth Cohorts ◽  
Economic Background ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Over Time

AbstractThis chapter focuses on the linkages between socio-economic background, family formation and economic (dis)advantage and reveals to what extent the influence of parental education on family formation persists over time, i.e. across birth cohorts. The second part of this chapter examines to what extent the influence of socio-economic background persists over the life-course. This part covers: (1) the influence of parental education on union formation over the life-course, and (2) the influence of socio-economic background on income trajectories in young adulthood, after adjusting for the career and family pathways that young adults followed during the transition to adulthood, thereby examining the influence of socio-economic background on income beyond the first stage of young adulthood. This chapter reveals two key insights on the linkages between socio-economic background, family formation and (dis)advantage: (1) Whereas union and family formation patterns have changed across birth cohorts, socio-economic background continues to stratify union and family formation pathways; (2) Although the influence of socio-economic background on family formation and young adults’ economic position decreases throughout young adulthood, socio-economic background continues to have an impact in young adulthood.

scholarly journals Health inequalities and the welfare state: perspectives from social epidemiology

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
George A. Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Health Inequalities ◽  
Social Epidemiology ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Inequality Of Opportunity ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Low Socioeconomic ◽  
Health Related ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
The Welfare State

It might be assumed that welfare states that have done so much to reduce inequality of opportunity have also reduced inequality of health outcomes. While great advances have been seen in reducing the rates of many diseases in welfare states, disparities in health have not been eliminated. Is it the case that lowering risks overall will leave disparities that cannot be remediated, and that such efforts are at the point of diminishing returns? The evidence suggests that this is not true. Instead the lens of social epidemiology can be used to identify groups that are at unequal risk and to suggest strategies for reducing health inequalities through upstream, midstream, and downstream interventions. The evidence suggests that these interventions be targeted at low socioeconomic position, place-based limitations in opportunities and resources, stages of the life course and the accumulation of disadvantage across the life course, and the underlying health-related factors that are associated with the marginalization and exclusion of certain groups. In their commitment to the values of equity and social justice, welfare states have unique opportunities to demonstrate the extent to which health inequalities can be eliminated.

scholarly journals Adults Only: Disability, Social Policy and the Life Course

2000 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 421-439 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARK PRIESTLEY
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Cultural Construction ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Legislative Framework ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the relationship between disability, generation and social policy. The moral and legislative framework for the post-war welfare settlement was grounded in a long-standing cultural construction of ‘normal’ life course progression. Disability and age (along with gender) were the key components in this construction, defining broad categories of welfare dependency and labour force exemption. However, social changes and the emergence of new policy discourses have brought into question the way in which we think about dependency and welfare at the end of the twentieth century. The article suggests that, as policy-makers pursue their millennial settlement with mothers, children and older people, they also may be forced to reconstruct the relationship between disabled people and the welfare state.

scholarly journals Black Deaths Matter: Race, Relationship Loss, and Effects on Survivors

2017 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 405-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debra Umberson
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Racial Disparities ◽  
Later Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
White Americans ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Unique Type ◽  
Unique Source ◽  
The Life Course

Close relationships are a resource for mental and physical health that, like other social resources, is unequally distributed in the population. This article focuses on racial disparities in the loss of relationships across the life course. Racial disparities in life expectancy in the United States mean that black Americans experience the deaths of more friends and family members than do white Americans from childhood through later life. I argue that these losses are a unique type of stress and adversity that, through interconnected biopsychosocial pathways, contribute to disadvantage in health over the life course. I focus particularly on how the interconnected pathways associated with loss undermine opportunities for and increase risks to social ties throughout life, adding to disadvantage in health. I call on social scientists and policy makers to draw greater attention to this unique source of disadvantage for black children, adults, and families.

scholarly journals The Life-Course Timing of Legalization: Evidence from the DACA Program

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 237802312110589
Author(s):  
Erin R. Hamilton ◽  
Caitlin Patler ◽  
Paola D. Langer
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Mexican Immigrants ◽  
Employment Outcomes ◽  
School Enrollment ◽  
Immigrant Integration ◽  
Integration Theory ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Education And Employment ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Life Course

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was created to mitigate some of the harmful consequences of undocumented immigration status. Although research shows that the DACA program promoted employment outcomes for the average DACA recipient, life-course theory and immigrant integration theory suggest that the program may differentially affect younger and older recipients. Using data from the American Community Survey, the authors test whether DACA was associated with different education and employment outcomes for younger and older Mexican immigrants. The results indicate that DACA was associated with increases in the likelihood of working among younger but not older DACA-eligible individuals and with greater decreases in the likelihood of school enrollment among younger DACA-eligible individuals. These results suggest that policy makers should ensure that opportunities to permanently legalize status are available to immigrants as early as possible in the life course.

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