In the last two decades, research on the life course has successfully combined and integrated different and rather isolated fields of social concerns such as: the labor market, family solidarity, education, employment, retirement, and social policy. It has also developed a special focus on crucial problems of sociological research, which includes the understanding of micromacro phenomena, the dynamics of social change, and international comparisons. Contributors to this volume take an international, comparative approach in applying the life course theoretical framework to issues of work and career. Life course research focuses on the relationship between institutions and individuals across the life span and illuminates the impact of modernization on the shaping of biographies. Industrial service societies are characterized by historically new contingencies of living arrangements and biographies. These contingencies differ according to the extent to which life course patterns are regulated by social institutions. In the continental European context, institutional frameworks continue to define the timing and sequencing of transitions across the life course. In less regulated market societies, like the United States and Great Britain, biographies and living arrangements are shaped more by the interaction of markets, social networks, and individual decisions. In active welfare states, institutional resources and rules continue to mediate the effects of social change on the life course. What the editors and contributors to this fine compendium anticipate is a change on the cultural level toward more equality. This trend supports young people, and women in particular, in their expectations concerning an egalitarian relationship. This expectation is not taken for granted from the point of view of the male partner, but has to be negotiated in decisionmaking processes as an issue that concerns the couple as a unit. Thus, the way in which people interact is profoundly impacted by the values and goals of equity demands. Walter R. Heinz is professor of sociology and social psychology, and director, Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Bremen. Victor W. Marshall is professor of sociology, and director of the Institute on Aging, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Carolina.
New myths and theories about nutrition splash across the headlines every day. This book replaces fads and ignorance with scientific fact, providing expert medical advice on a large variety of topics. More than 200 tables, illustrations, and sample menus give the reader clear, authoritative information.
Positively I AM: Your Life Matters, inspired by the Word of God and science provides biblical and scientific reasoning that promises to build up the Christian who may face the challenges of agnostics, atheists, and the conflict between liberal and conservative Christianity. Positively I AM: Your Life Matters provides information that will assist you in negotiating and navigating through perplexing and problematic situations while preserving your own identity. Positively I AM: Your Life Matters reveals how the smallest particles of your being influence and in some cases are controlling your thoughts and feeling, impacting how you might be making choices and how you may avoid or break bad habits. As you read this book you will become more aware of what true love is, and how you may gain and keep in control of your life and destiny. You will understand how and why it was possible for Lucifer to become the Devil having been created perfect and living in the most perfect environment. After reading this book you may find a clearer understanding for why Adam and Eve’s use of their free-will resulted in being separated from God, and God promising to destroy the thing that caused Adam and Eve to choose to disobey their Creator. Positively I AM: Your Life Matters, brings the reader positively face to face with the I AM and illustrates why Satan and his followers can never be forgiven. Yes! Many things will be made clearer and some of the most heartfelt questions about life will positively be answered as you read and understand I AM with You: Your Life Matters.
In recent years much has been written on spiritual direction. However, confusion and at times outright contradiction exist between the aims and methodologies of various models of Christian spiritual direction. In order to develop solid criteria for evaluating and critiquing these models it is necessary to root the practice of spiritual direction in the biblical record. The intention of this study is to provide such biblical moorings by examining the Apostle Paul as a case study in his function as a spiritual director--with respect to his aims and praxis of spiritually forming the members of the congregations he founded.
This report concerns the adequacy of consumer & investor protection in the electric utility industry. Covers: (1) recent changes within the electric utility industry that involved utility holding co. (UHC); (2) the effect of these changes on the SEC admin. of the Public Utility Holding Co. Act (PUHCA) of 1935, as amended; & (3) the relationship between SEC, the FERC, & state regulators in protecting consumer & investor interests in the changing industry. PUHCA is designed to discourage UHC from structuring their operations so as to frustrate effective state regulation of their utility subsidiaries. The act confines a UHC¿s utility operations to a single geographic area & requires UHC to maintain simple corp. & financial structures. Charts & tables.
During 50 years of nuclear weapons production, the U.S. has generated large volumes of radioactive wastes that have resulted in the contamination of soil, groundwater, & surface water. As a result, (in 1994) DoE faces a massive, complex, & costly cleanup effort. The U.S. will decide on methods to be used for environ. remediation at various sites. This report reviews progress in determining cleanup standards & land uses. It determines: how cleanup levels are currently determined for sites; the status & likelihood of success of efforts to develop cleanup standards for radionuclides; the status of land use planning efforts; & what hurdles would need to be overcome if land use planning were to be effectively implemented. Charts & tables.
The aim of this book is to review recent achievements in thetheoretical investigations of the electronic structure, optical, magneto-optical (MO), and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD)properties of compounds and Multilayered structures.Chapter 1 of this book is of an introductory character and presentsthe theoretical foundations of the band theory of solids such as thedensity functional theory for ground state properties of solidsincluding local density approximation (LDA). It also presents somemodifications to the LDA, such as gradient correction, self-interaction correction, LDA+U method, orbital polarizationcorrection, GW approximation, and dynamical mean- field theory. Thedescription of the magneto-optical effects and linear response theoryare also presented.The book describes the MO properties for a number of 3d materials, such as elemental ferromagnetic metals (Fe, Co and Ni) andparamagnetic metals in external magnetic fields (Pd and Pt), someimportant 3d compounds such as XPt3 (X=V, Cr, Mn, Fe and Co), Heusleralloys, chromium spinel chalcogenides, MnB and strongly correlatedmagnetite Fe304. It also describes the recent achievements in both theexperimental and theoretical investigations of the electronicstructure, optical and MO properties of transition metal multilayeredstructures (MLS).The book presents also the MO properties of f band ferromagneticmaterials: Tm, Nd, Sm, Ce and La monochalcogenides, some important Y
Later Life deals with leading issues in the social psychology of aging. The central aims of the book are: to introduce an interpretive perspective to studies of aging, based on symbolic interactionism and phenomenology; to offer a critique of prevailing theoretical and structural-functional approaches in social gerontology; and to recognize that aging individuals are immersed in social structural contexts that have their own historical and social imperatives and dynamics.
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