Life course perspectives on military service / / edited by Janet M. Wilmoth and Andrew S. London

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (401 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.2/70973
• Soggetto topico: Sociology, Military - United States; Veterans - United States - Social conditions; Life cycle, Human; Life change events
• Altri autori: LondonAndrew S WilmothJanet M (Janet May)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Groups ; 7 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 Service ; 14 Setting an Agenda for Future Research on Military Service and the Life CourseReferences; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This 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 as
• Titolo autorizzato: Life course perspectives on military service
• ISBN: 1-136-16195-3; 1-283-94202-X; 0-203-07974-4; 1-136-16196-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827685603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Advances in Sociology