Open AccessEn analyse av institusjonaliseringsteoriens potensiale ved hjelp av livhistorisk materiale
Author(s) -
Kirsten Danielsen
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
dansk sociologi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2246-4026
pISSN - 0905-5908
DOI - 10.22439/dansoc.v12i3.655
Subject(s) - institutionalisation , life course approach , welfare , welfare state , sociology , social life , history , social science , political science , psychology , social psychology , law , politics
Institutionalisation of the life course - what does it explain?
There has been an ongoing debate about the characteristic features of the modern life course. Some claim that the life course have become more predictable and institutionalised while others indicate the emergence of a post modern or deconstructed life course. By the means of the analytical distinction between two different types of live events - culturally prescribed transitions and occasional incidents I will scrutinise the hypnotises of the institutionalisation of the life course. The institutionalised life course is a new historical phenomena and only possible under certain demographic and social conditions. Of specific importance is the emergence of the welfare state. The data I base my analysis upon are life history interviews with 97 men and women born before the First World War. This generation is interesting in this respect because they grew up and became old under different welfare regimes.