Life Course Theory
The life course theory suggests that the interaction between historical events, personal decisions, and individual opportunities experiences early in life affect subsequent outcomes.
This theory starts out from birth in-which people are born into different social classes, ethnicity, life styles and locations. People then make personal decisions such as relocation, marriage, having children that can change there life later in age. In addition we experience opportunities such as job offers, internships and education life affect our life course.
I was born in a very low income family of Migrant Works. My father never went to any type of schooling. He hardly can write and can't read. This part of my life would be consider Historical events. I made the decision to enroll my self into high-school and apply to the University of Idaho. I took the opportunity to pursue higher education at the University of Idaho had offered me and with that followed other great opportunities such as a internship at a local retirement center. My decisions and opportunities in my early life will by no doubt affect my subsequent outcome in later life.
I found this article a professor who has been doing research on Life Course theory I found it very interesting and I think you will also! He talks about his longitudinal studies on aging adults.
http://www.unc.edu/~elder/pdf/asa-99talk.pdf
The Second article I found is about children who participate in antisocial behavior and how this affects them later in life and how the research on Life Course theory in relation to children who grow up with antisocial behavior.
http://www.psychology.sunysb.edu/ewaters/552-04/slide%20sets/brian_mcfarland_aggression/moffitt_aggression.pdf
http://www.unc.edu/~elder/pdf/asa-99talk.pdf
The Second article I found is about children who participate in antisocial behavior and how this affects them later in life and how the research on Life Course theory in relation to children who grow up with antisocial behavior.
http://www.psychology.sunysb.edu/ewaters/552-04/slide%20sets/brian_mcfarland_aggression/moffitt_aggression.pdf
I found this video on YouTube that explains life course theory pretty well. It talks about being born into certain situations as well as social and economical factors.
http://youtu.be/7iBS1T-NOP4Here are two websites that explain Life Course Theory:
The first one is some chapters from a book that focuses on the Life Course Theory:
http://www.imamu.edu.sa/topics/IT/IT%206/The%20Life%20Course%20Perspective%20Applied%20to%20Families%20Over%20Time.pdf
The Second website that I found is a website from the Contra Costa Health Services and the California endowment. It's on policies and programs in which integrates a Life Course Perspective. That focuses on women and children.
http://cchealth.org/lifecourse/pdf/2009_10_policy_brief.pdf
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