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Zitierlink DOI
10.26092/elib/2304
Verlagslink DOI
10.1177/0961463X08099947

Social Change and the Timing of Family Transitions in West Germany: Evidence from cohort comparisons

Veröffentlichungsdatum
2009-03-01
Autoren
Scherger, Simone  
Zusammenfassung
This article addresses the timing of family transitions in early adulthood. Theoretical and empirical analyses are used to investigate the appropriateness of the notions of destandardization, differentiation and individualization for characterizing recent changes in West German life courses. Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) are used for a comparison of (West German) birth cohorts and the respective timing of moving out of the parental home, first marriage and first parenthood. These transitions have, in fact, undergone a certain temporal destandardization. However, the results suggest that this destandardization is limited to certain dimensions, is clearly socially structured and is in part brought about by changing structural conditions. Furthermore, these changes in timing can be partly explained by differentiation according to education. Individualization, too, is only applicable to a certain degree and in particular to women's life courses.
Schlagwörter
Destandardization

; 

life course

; 

marriage

; 

moving out of the parental home

; 

parenthood
Verlag
Sage
Institution
andere Institution  
Dokumenttyp
Artikel/Aufsatz
Zeitschrift/Sammelwerk
Time & Society  
Startseite
106
Endseite
129
Zweitveröffentlichung
Ja
Dokumentversion
Postprint
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Sprache
Englisch
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