A Note on the Life Course Perspective in Sociology
This post contains my notes for Prof. Phyllis Moen’s doctoral seminar Topics in Life Course: Work and Well-Being in Turbulent Times at the University of Minnesota, Fall 2022. The seminar, in Phyllis’s own words, was to “adopt a gendered life course, stress process, intersectional approach” to “address the health and well-being implications of, and inequities around, the changing nature and culture of paid work, along with ongoing disparities around both paid work and unpaid family care work.” The seminar was very informative and could not be summarized in one single post. Consequently, my focus will be on the broad principles of the life course pespective as an epistemology.