To accompany the television series Seasons of life.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-409) and index.
Summary
Interprets the work of social scientists and examines the stories of ordinary individuals as a method of studying life's passages.
Contents
I. Infancy. One: The Biological Clock -- Two: The Social clock -- Three: The Psychological Clock -- II. Childhood. Four: No Longer 'In-fans' -- Five: The First Day -- Six: 'How to' Time -- III. Adolescence. Seven: Changing Bodies -- Eight: A Ten-Year Lag -- Nine: The Story is the Self -- IV. Early Adulthood. Ten: The Season of Fertility -- Eleven: Two Families -- Twelve: From Dream to Reality -- V. Middle Adulthood. Thirteen: The Midpoint -- Fourteen: The Baby Boom is Forty -- Fifteen: Time Lived, Time Left -- VI. Late Adulthood. Sixteen: Twenty-five Extra Years -- Seventeen: Pioneers of Aging -- Eighteen: How the Story Ends.
