Milestones and cornerstones: Queering the life course

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-106
Author(s):  
Thomas Kemple
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Existence Theory ◽  
Time Line ◽  
Straight Path ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cyclical Time ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Single Path

Rather than refuting or challenging the claims by Baert, Morgan, and Ushiyama to originality, the objective of this commentary is to flesh out “existence theory” by extending its repertoire of examples and by expanding on its classical and philosophical sources. Drawing on precedents in canonical statements by Vico, Weber, Durkheim, Simmel, and Marx, this response poses questions about the model’s implied assumption of a time-line that traces a “straight” path from the past to the present and future by invoking the alternative imagery of a circular history, cyclical time, or “queer” life course. To support this argument, contemporary queer theories are invoked to supplement the concept-metaphor of “existential milestones” with that of “existential cornerstones,” which do not always suggest that human development follows a single path or a binding timeline. The civil institutions of religion, marriage, and burial, as discussed by both classical sociologists and queer theorists, for instance, may be defined by a sense of necessity and inevitability but also by contingency and coincidence.

scholarly journals Neurodevelopmental processes in the ontogenesis and epigenesis of psychopathology

1999 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
DANTE CICCHETTI ◽  
TYRONE D. CANNON
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Developmental Psychopathology ◽  
Behavioral Development ◽  
Neural Circuitry ◽  
Behavioral Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Made In

Dramatic gains in knowledge have been made in the fields of neuroscience, human development, and developmental psychopathology during the past quarter of a century. Despite the advances that have been achieved in each discipline separately, considerably less progress has occurred in understanding the relation between neurobiological and behavioral development in normal and atypical populations. Research has increasingly demonstrated that abnormalities that occur early in development may result in the emergence of aberrant neural circuitry that eventuates in relatively enduring forms of psychopathology. Knowledge of normal neurobiological development provides a powerful foundation for understanding the contributions that neurodevelopmental processes make to the etiology and sequelae of psychopathology across the life course. An integrated perspective wherein an appreciation of the complex neural, psychological, and social-contextual processes that cohere to bring about normal and pathological outcomes is necessary in order to advance understanding of the genesis and epigenesis of mental disorders. Such an approach will require a reduction of the schisms that so often separate neurobiological and behavioral research.

Human Development in the Life Course

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tania Zittoun ◽  
Jaan Valsiner ◽  
Dankert Vedeler ◽  
Joao Salgado ◽  
Miguel M. Goncalves ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Human Development ◽  
The Life Course

Precarious life, human development and the life course: critical intersections

2020 ◽  
pp. 41-66
Author(s):  
Stephen Katz
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Older Adult ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Obese Child ◽  
Cognitively Impaired ◽  
Historical Texts ◽  
Popular Images ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Ageing Populations

This chapter explores the critical intersections between ageing, human development, and the life course as precarious forms of life. The first part reviews the literature on global precarity and the endangerment of liveability in relation to ageing populations, with a focus on neoliberal strategies that naturalise and individualise risky life-course trajectories and health crises. The second part examines selected figures of the obese child, unstable adolescent, despairing mid-lifer, and cognitively impaired older adult as examples of crisis-laden personifications of social problems. Data are drawn from historical texts, popular images and professional knowledges. Conclusions revisit the work of Butler and Foucault to raise questions about current models of resilience and the possibilities of resistance and living differently.

Motivation to learn

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Hallam
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Systemic Approach ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
Cognitive Factors ◽  
Motivation To Learn ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The Life Course

This article sets out a model that attempts to integrate the various theoretical approaches to understanding motivation, embedded within a broadly systemic approach as proposed by Bronfenbrenner (1979) which suggests that the process of human development depends on mutual accommodation which occurs throughout the life-course between an individual and the various systems that they or others close to them encounter in their environment. The model recognizes the importance of cognitive factors and self-determination in behaviour. A detailed account is provided of what we know about each of the elements outlined in the model as they relate to motivation in music.

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.

The Life-Course and Human Development: An Ecological Perspective

1979 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glen H. Elder ◽  
Richard C. Rockwell
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Problem Formulation ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Psychological States ◽  
Socioeconomic Environment ◽  
Family Economy ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Status Differences

A life-course perspective is applied to the study of human development in ecological context. Three meanings of age (developmental, social, and historical) represent key elements of this perspective and depict lives in terms of aging, career, and historical setting. Age locates people in history (by birth year) and in the social structure. The neglect of such temporal distinctions in problem formulation has consequences in studies of status differences and psychological states, of careers and work satisfaction, of children's socioeconomic environment and the family economy, and of life change and stress. Alternative questions based on the life-course facilitate explanatory assessments of the relation between environmental and personal change.

ADA at 25 and People With Cognitive Disabilities: From Voice to Action

Inclusion ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Blanck
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Americans With Disabilities Act ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
25Th Anniversary ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Life Course

Abstract The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, and the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA) of 2008, are effecting dramatic changes in the perception of cognitive and other disabilities, from primarily viewing disability as a medical state to be cured and pitied toward acceptance of disability as an element of human experience and self-identity. The ADA's modern understanding of disability is as much shaped by diversity in biology, local culture, and self-identity over the life course, as it is by the barriers to inclusion we build and maintain in society. This view reflects the paradigm shift from the prior and dominating medical model to a social and environmental approach to disability civil and human rights. This two-part special issue of the journal Inclusion examines the ADA at its 25th anniversary. The articles reflect on the past 25 years, examine the present, and anticipate the future to ensure continued progress towards the civil and human rights of individuals with cognitive and other disabilities.

Physical Activity: An Underestimated Investment in Human Capital?

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Bailey ◽  
Charles Hillman ◽  
Shawn Arent ◽  
Albert Petitpas
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Capital Growth ◽  
To Come ◽  
Healthy Functioning ◽  
The Life Course

Despite the fact that physical activity is universally acknowledged to be an important part of healthy functioning and well-being, the full scope of its value is rarely appreciated. This article introduces a novel framework for understanding the relationships between physical activity (and specifically sport-related forms of physical activity) and different aspects of human development. It proposes that the outcomes of physical activity can be framed as differential ‘capitals’ that represent investments in domain-specific assets: Emotional, Financial, Individual, Intellectual, Physical, and Social. These investments, especially when made early in the life course, can yield significant rewards, both at that time and for years to come. The paper presents a new model—the Human Capital Model—that makes sense of these effects, outlines the different capitals, and briefly articulates the conditions necessary for the realization of Human Capital growth through physical activity.

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