Social Construction of Life Course

The baby boom generation born in the 1950s is now entering retirement and a third phase of social welfare intervention (pensions). Because of this baby boomers are now attracting some academic and policy attention. Also, life course approaches to social studies are increasing in popularity. This book looks at changing attitudes to and policies in education, work and pensions/retirement. It also provides an illuminating case study of childhood, adulthood and old age, following the baby boom generation through each of these stages of the life course. This will be the first book to correlate how life stages are constructed in tandem with changes in the constructions of social policy.Powell, Suzanne K. is the author of 'Social Construction of Life Course ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780415363884 and ISBN 0415363888.