METHODS OF LIFE COURSE RESEARCH:
Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches
Janet Z. Giele and Glen H. Elder, Jr., Editors
Contents
Foreword: Crafting Life Course Studies viii
Anne Colby
Preface xiii
Part I
The Life Course Mode of Inquiry 1
Chapter 1 Life Course Research: Development of a Field 5
Janet Z. Giele and Glen H. Elder, Jr.
Chapter 2 A Life Course Approach: Autobiographical Notes 28
Matilda White Riley
Chapter 3 The Craft of Life Course Studies 52
Angela O'Rand
Part II
Data Collection and Measurement 75
Chapter 4 Data Organization and Conceptualization 81
Nancy Karweit and David Kertzer
Chapter 5 Retrospective Versus Prospective Measurement
of Life Histories in Longitudinal Research 98
Jacqueline Scott and Duane Alwin
Chapter 6 Finding Respondents in a Follow-Up Study 128
Donna Dempster-McClain and Phyllis Moen
Chapter 7 Collecting Life History Data: Experiences from
the German Life History Study 152
Erika Brückner and Karl Ulrich Mayer
Part III
Strategies for Analysis 183
Chapter 8 Life Reviews and Life Stories 189
John A. Clausen
Chapter 9 Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Data 213
John Laub and Robert J. Sampson
Chapter 10 Innovation in the Typical Life Course 231
Janet Z. Giele
Chapter 11 Linking History and Human Lives 264
Glen H. Elder, Jr. and Lisa Pellerin
References 295
Name Index 324
Subject Index 331
About the Contributors 339
Copyrigh 1998 by Sage Publications, Inc.
