04023oam 2200733I 450 991046283620332120200520144314.01-283-94202-X0-203-07974-41-136-16196-110.4324/9780203079744 (CKB)2670000000315490(EBL)1108546(OCoLC)823719234(SSID)ssj0000804053(PQKBManifestationID)11431464(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000804053(PQKBWorkID)10811458(PQKB)11557829(MiAaPQ)EBC1108546(Au-PeEL)EBL1108546(CaPaEBR)ebr10643489(CaONFJC)MIL425452(OCoLC)824729245(EXLCZ)99267000000031549020180706d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLife course perspectives on military service /edited by Janet M. Wilmoth and Andrew S. LondonNew York :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (401 p.)Routledge advances in sociology ;83Routledge advances in sociology ;83Description based upon print version of record.1-138-92085-1 0-415-87941-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Life-Course Perspectives on Military Service; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface; Foreword; 1 Life-Course Perspectives on Military Service: An Introduction; 2 The Military as a Transforming Influence: Integration into or Isolation from Normal Adult Roles?; 3 Women's Lives in Wartime: The American Civil War and World War II; 4 Race-Ethnicity and Immigration Status in the U.S. Military; 5 Military Service and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Lives; 6 Military Service as a Pathway to Early Socioeconomic Achievement for Disadvantaged Groups7 Labor Market Outcomes among Veterans and Military Spouses8 The Best Years of Our Lives: Military Service and Family Relationships-A Life-Course Perspective; 9 Military Employment and Spatial Mobility across the Life Course; 10 A Matter of Life and Death Military Service and Health; 11 Military Service, Social Policy, and Later-Life Financial and Health Security; 12 United States Military Services' Sponsorship of Life-Course Research: Past, Present, and Future; 13 Methodological Problems in Determining the Consequences of Military Service14 Setting an Agenda for Future Research on Military Service and the Life CourseReferences; Contributors; IndexThis edited volume provides a comprehensive and critical review of what we know about military service and the life course, what we don't know, and what we need to do to better understand the role of military service in shaping people's lives. It demonstrates that the military, like colleges and prisons, is a key social institution that engages individuals in early adulthood and shapes processes of cumulative (dis)advantage over the life course. The chapters provide topical synthesizes of the vast but diffuse research literatures on military service and the life course, while the volume asRoutledge Advances in SociologySociology, MilitaryUnited StatesVeteransUnited StatesSocial conditionsLife cycle, HumanLife change eventsElectronic books.Sociology, MilitaryVeteransSocial conditions.Life cycle, Human.Life change events.306.2/70973London Andrew S961130Wilmoth Janet M(Janet May)958752MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462836203321Life course perspectives on military service2179022UNINA