{"product_id":"9783319049687","title":"Life Course Research and Social Policies","description":"\u003ch1\u003eLife Course Research and Social Policies\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eBlanchard, Philippe; Bühlmann, Felix; Gauthier, Jacques-Antoine\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book gives a general view of sequence analysis, the statistical study of successions of states or events. It includes innovative contributions on life course studies, transitions into and out of employment, contemporaneous and historical careers, and political trajectories. The approach presented in this book is now central to the life-course perspective and the study of social processes more generally.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume promotes the dialogue between approaches to sequence analysis that developed separately, within traditions contrasted in space and disciplines. It includes the latest developments in sequential concepts, coding, atypical datasets and time patterns, optimal matching and alternative algorithms, survey optimization, and visualization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eField studies include original sequential material related to parenting in 19th-century Belgium, higher education and work in Finland and Italy, family formation before and after German reunification, French Jews persecuted inoccupied France, long-term trends in electoral participation, and regime democratization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOverall the book reassesses the classical uses of sequences and it promotes new ways of collecting, formatting, representing and processing them. The introduction provides basic sequential concepts and tools, as well as a history of the method. Chapters are presented in a way that is both accessible to the beginner and informative to the expert.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2014-07-15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783319049687\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-319-04969-4\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 304\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49940155334796,"sku":"9783319049687","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783319049687.jpg?v=1779054789","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783319049687","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}