I. TRADITION AND INNOVATION IN LIFE-COURSE RESEARCH
Theoretical roots of the life-course perspective / Victor W. Marshall, Margaret M. Mueller
The life-course regime: ambiguities between interrelatedness and individualization / Helga Krüger
The life course in time and place / Glen H. Elder, Jr.
Combining methods in life-course research: a mixed blessing? / Walter R. Heinz
II. LIFE-COURSE TRANSITIONS AND SEQUENCES
From transtitions to trajectories: sequence types / Reinhold Sackmann, Matthias Wingens
Dynamics of women's employment careers: labor-market opportunities and women's labor-market exit and reentry / Marlis Buchmann ... [et al.]
Employment trajectories of East and West German mothers compared: one nation - one pattern? / Hildegard Schaeper, Susanne Falk
III. INSTITUTIONS AND THE LIFE COURSE
The life course, institutions, and life-course policy / Ansgar Weymann
How institutions shape the German life course / Lutz Leisering, Karl F. Schumann
Growing up in American society: income, opportunities, and outcomes / Frank F. Furstenberg
IV. INTERRELATIONS AND THE LIFE COURSE
Linked lives: dual careers, gender, and the contingent life course / Phyllis Moen
Ties between lives: dynamics of employment patterns of spouses / Sonja Drobnič
Changes in family roles and arrangement between generations: an indicator for the modernization of gender relations? / Claudia Born.
