Doing Transitions in the Life Course

Barbara Stauber is Professor for Educational Science in the sub-discipline of Social pedagogy at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany.  She is one of two coordinators of the collaborative PhD programme Doing Transitions at Goethe University of Frankfurt and University of Tübingen. She has published on youth and young adults, transitions in the life course (especially school to work transitions and transitions into parenthood), and on (riskful) youth cultural practices – both nationally and internationally. Andreas Walther is Professor for Educational Science, Social Pedagogy and Youth Welfare and Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He is Director of the research unit Education and Coping in the Life Course and one of two coordinators of the collaborative PhD programme Doing Transitions at Goethe University of Frankfurt and University of Tübingen. He has published on youth and young adults, transitions in the life course (especially school to work transitions), and on youth participation both nationally and internationally.Richard A. Settersten, Jr., is University Distinguished Professor of Human Development and Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at Oregon State University, USA, where he also served as head of the School of Social and Behavioral Health Sciences and founding director of the Hallie E. Ford Center for Healthy Children and Families. A specialist in life transitions, Settersten works flexibly across different life phases and disciplines. He has played leadership roles in the American Sociological Association and the Gerontological Society of America and has received numerous awards for his research, teaching, and service.

• 1. Doing Transitions: A New Research Perspective (Andreas Walther, Barbara Stauber and Richard A. Settersten, Jr.).- 2. The Trajectories of a Life (Ted Schatzki).- Part 1. Institutions and Organisations.- 3. Welfare States as Transition Regimes: Reconstruction from International Comparisons of Young People’s Transitions to Work (Andreas Walther).- 4. Young People’s Use and Construction of Institutional Support in Transitions from School to Work (Heidi Hirschfeld and Bianca Lenz).- 5. Young Adults’ Exclusive Educational Careers in the Transition to Higher Education or Employment: Key Findings of a Qualitative Longitudinal Study (Heinz-Hermann Krüger).- 6. Organizations as Collective Subjects in the Formation of Transitions Over the Life Course (Eva Heinrich, Nils Klevermann and Bernhard Schmidt-Hertha).- 7. Aging Transitions at Work: The Embodied Experience of Becoming Older (Kathleen Riach).- Part 2: Times and Normativities of Transitions.- 8. Relative Time and Life Course Research (Nuria Sanchez Mira and Laura Bernardi).- 9. Biographical Articulation in Transition (Noreen Eberle, Jessica Lütgens, Andrea Pohling, Tina Spies and Petra Bauer).- 10. Beyond the Mundane: “Everything but Ordinary”? Reflections on Extra-/Ordinariness in Life Course Transitions (Anna Wanka and Julia Prescher).- 11. Becoming ‘(Ab-)Normal’: Normality, Deviance, and Doing Life Course Transitions (Tobias Boll).- Part 3. Materialities and Transitions.- 12. The Multidimensionality of Materiality: Bodies, Space, and Things in Transitions (Deborah Nägler and Anna Wanka).- 13. Bodies in Transition: Gendered and Medicalized Discourses in Pregnancy Advice Literature (Janne Krumbügel).- 14. How Spatial Sensitivity Enriches Understanding Transitions in Childhood and Later Life (Tabea Freutel-Funke & Helena Müller).- 15. The Significance of Relationality in Doing Transitions (Richard A. Settersten, Jr., Barbara Stauber, and Andreas Walther).