The purpose of this paper is to help people understand more about what is life course perspective and how families across the life course. The life course perspective reflects individual and family’s changing, further to reacts the development of society changing. The life course perspective connects with the experiences of older life to younger life (Connidis, 2012). Our parents and grandparents maybe see the influences of change more clearly because in order to observe life change people need the passage of time. At any one point in time, everything might look fairly stable, however, over longer periods, change would become increasingly observable. When we discuss about life course perspective we will link to cohort perspective. A cohort
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A transition of the life course is particular change in a situation within a trajectory (Connidis, 2012). Transitions are usually accompanied by distinct change, for example, leaving home; graduated from college; from single to married; becoming a parent, and so on. The difference of transitions and turning points is that transitions are the base of trajectories; it is more stability than turning points. Turning points can understand as a substantial alteration in direction. A fuzzy distinction can explain as transitions (Connidis, …show more content…
For instance, no matter you are young generation or old generation, people would attend to school, get marry, build a new family, and so on. On the contrary, change refers that young people not only continuing follow preceding cohort’s behaviours but also have they own behaviours (Lin, 2015). For example, in an intimate relationship, attitude of young people today is more focus on romantic love, they might easy to fall in love with someone but also easy to break up; however, older generation is more focus on companionate love, they want commitment more than romantic. Therefore, divorce increase every year is an obvious result of the today’s society. All in all, compare to their middle-aged and younger counterparts, older couples feel more satisfied with their marriages, however, compare to now, they feel happier when they were younger (Connidies,
A transition of the life course is particular change in a situation within a trajectory (Connidis, 2012). Transitions are usually accompanied by distinct change, for example, leaving home; graduated from college; from single to married; becoming a parent, and so on. The difference of transitions and turning points is that transitions are the base of trajectories; it is more stability than turning points. Turning points can understand as a substantial alteration in direction. A fuzzy distinction can explain as transitions (Connidis, …show more content…
For instance, no matter you are young generation or old generation, people would attend to school, get marry, build a new family, and so on. On the contrary, change refers that young people not only continuing follow preceding cohort’s behaviours but also have they own behaviours (Lin, 2015). For example, in an intimate relationship, attitude of young people today is more focus on romantic love, they might easy to fall in love with someone but also easy to break up; however, older generation is more focus on companionate love, they want commitment more than romantic. Therefore, divorce increase every year is an obvious result of the today’s society. All in all, compare to their middle-aged and younger counterparts, older couples feel more satisfied with their marriages, however, compare to now, they feel happier when they were younger (Connidies,