Life Course Perspectives on Military Service (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Wilmoth, Janet M.; London, Andrew S.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume synthesizes literature on military service and its life course consequences. It considers how the military has changed over time, how experiences of military service vary across cohorts and persons with different characteristics, how military service affects service members' lives and families and the linkages between research and policy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136161957
• Artikelnr.: 38243523

Autorenporträt

Janet M. Wilmoth and Andrew S. London are Professors of Sociology at the Aging Studies Institute, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Janet M. Wilmoth and Andrew S. London. Foreword Glen H. Elder, Jr.
1. Life-Course Perspectives on Military Service: An Introduction Janet M.
Wilmoth and Andrew S. London 2. The Military as a Transforming Social
Agent: Integration into or Isolation from Normal Adult Roles? Ryan Kelty
and David R. Segal 3. Women's Lives in Wartime: The American Civil War and
World War II D'Ann Campbell 4. Racial-Ethnicity and Immigration Status in
the U.S. Military Amy C. Lutz 5. Military Service and Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual, and Transgender Lives Maria T. Brown 6. Military Service as a
Pathway to Early Socioeconomic Achievement for Disadvantaged Groups Pamela
R. Bennett and Katrina Bell McDonald 7. Labor Market Outcomes Among
Veterans and Military Spouses Meredith Kleykamp 8. "The Best Years of Our
Lives": Military Service and Family Relationships - A Life-Course
Perspective Daniel Burland and Jennifer Hickes Lundquist 9. Military
Employment and Spatial Mobility Across the Life Course Amy Kate Bailey 10.
A Matter of Life and Death: Military Service and Health Alair MacLean 11.
Military Service, Social Policy, and Later-Life Financial and Health
Security Debra Street and Jessica Hoffman 12. The United States Military
Services' Sponsorship of Life-Course Research: Past, Present, and Future
Paul Gade and Brandis Ruise 13. Methodological Problems in Determining the
Consequences of Military Service Douglas A. Wolf, Coady Wing and Leonard M.
Lopoo 14. Setting an Agenda for Future Research on Military Service and the
Life Course Jay D. Teachman