The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Inequalities and the Life Course

Drawing upon perspectives from across the globe and employing an interdisciplinary life course approach, this handbook explores the production and reproduction of different types of inequality, such as economic, gender, racial and ethnic inequalities, across a variety of social contexts, including health, education and the family.

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Magda Nico is a Researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-ISCTE) and Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Research Methods at ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon. She is currently coordinating a project on the importance and dynamics of 'linked lives' within families. Her research interests include life course theory and methods, family histories, social mobility, and the processes of inequalities.

Gary Pollock is Professor of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University. He currently coordinates the European Research Council-funded Cohort Community Research and Development Infrastructure Network for Access Throughout Europe (COORDINATE) project and has previously led the European Cohort Development (EDCP) and Measuring Youth Well-Being (MYWEB) projects. His research interests include the design and analysis of survey data on children and young people and their life trajectories, particularly using longitudinal techniques.

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Section 1 Inequality as process

Introduction - Doing Inequalities over the life course

Magda Nico and Gary Pollock

1. Inequality across time: social change, biography and the life course ** Dale Dannefer, Chengming Han, and Jiao Yu

2. Poverty and economic insecurity in the life course ** Leen Vandecasteele, Dario Spini, Nicolas Sommet, and Felix Bühlmann

3. Inequality as process ** Elisabetta Ruspini

4. Life course inequality and policy: a focus on child well-being ** Gary Pollock, Jessica Ozan, and Haridhan Goswami

   **** Section 2 Assessing inequalities: complementary methods

   Introduction - Imagining the understanding of inequalities ** Magda Nico and Gary Pollock

5. Studying social inequality over the life course in modern societies. The methodological importance of life course studies ** Gwendolin J. Blossfeld and Hans-Peter Blossfeld

6. The analysis of inequality in life trajectories: an integration of two approaches Danilo Bolano and André Berchtold

7. Evolution of COVID-19 lethality and geographically contrasting socio-economic factors in Brazil: a multilevel perspective ** Joseph F. Hair, Jr, Luiz Paulo Fávero, and Rafael de Freitas Souza

8. Health inequalities across the life course: theories, statistical pitfalls, and the possible impact of the COVID-19 pandemic ** Fabian Kratz

   **** Section 3 The social stratification of health

   Introduction - The inherent longitudinality of health inequalities ** Magda Nico and Gary Pollock

9. Mental health inequalities ** Jane D. McLeod and Max E. Coleman

10. How an analysis of lifespan inequality can contribute to our understanding of life course inequalities ** Alyson van Raalte

11. Two centuries of inequalities: disability and partnership in Sweden ** Lotta Vikström, Kateryna Karhina, and Johan Junkka

12. The Covid-19 pandemic: inequalities and the life course ** Richard A. Settersten, Jr., Laura Bernardi, Juho Härkönen, Toni C. Antonucci, Pearl A. Dykstra, Jutta Heckhausen, Diana Kuh, Karl Ulrich Mayer, Phyllis Moen, Jeylan T. Mortimer, Clara H. Mulder, Timothy M. Smeeding, Tanja Van Der Lippe, Gunhild O. Hagestad, Martin Kohli, René Levy, Ingrid Schoon, and Elizabeth Thomson

    **** Section 4 Economic and wealth inequalities

    Introduction - The challenge of complexity in the analysis of economic inequalities ** Magda Nico and Gary Pollock

13. Concepts of social stratificationstatic and dynamic perspectives ** Steffen Hillmert

14. Optimising the use of measures of social stratification in research with intersectional and longitudinal analytical priorities ** Paul Lambert and Camilla Barnett

15. Stagnation and inequality in a historical view: a comment on Piketty's analysis of capitalism and the Portuguese case ** Francisco Louçã

16. Things can't only get better: inequality and democracy over a life-span Kevin Albertson and Richard Whittle ** Section 5 Youth, education and transition to adulthood

    Introduction - Half way down the stairs somewhere else instead ** Magda Nico and Gary Pollock

17. Expansion and improved permeability of post-secondary education in Germany: consequences for social inequalities in educational attainment ** Nicole Tieben and Daniela Rohrbach-Schmidt

18. Educational expansion across cohorts and over the life course: an international comparison of (rapid) educational expansion and the consequences of the differentiation of tertiary education ** Pia Blossfeld, Gwendolin J. Blossfeld, and Hans-Peter Blossfeld

19. Class in successive life courses in Britain since 1945 ** Ken Roberts

20. Mapping young Norwegians' self-projects and future orientations Ingunn Marie Eriksen and Kari Stefansen ** Section 6 Family and linked lives

    Introduction - Families at the heart of linked (lives and) inequalities ** Magda Nico and Gary Pollock

21. Care inequality in later life in ageing societies: the unequal distribution of the intensity of informal support in Europe ** Marco Albertini and Riccardo Prandini

22. The apple, the tree and the forest: family histories as radars of social mobility and inequalities ** Magda Nico and Maria Gilvania Valdivino Silva

23. Family formation and social inequalities. A life course perspective ** Stefano Cantalini

24. Farewell's children: using the life course perspective to understand female late fertility Rosalina Pisco Costa **** Section 7 Gender inequalities

    Introduction - Gender inequalities: time-varying and trajectories ** Magda Nico and Gary Pollock

25. The mutual constitution of gendered and sexualised inequalities in life courses ** José Fernando Serrano-Amaya

26. Gender trajectories and the production of inequalities from a life course perspective ** Sofia Aboim and Pedro Vasconcelos

27. Inequalities in work and the intersectional life course ** Phyllis Moen and Mahala Miller

28. LGBTIQ+ life course inequalities and queer temporalities Maria do Mar Varela and Yener Bayramolu ** Section 8 Racial and ethnic inequalities

    Introduction - The weight of structure on the skin ** Magda Nico and Gary Pollock

29. The centrality of race to inequality across the world-system ** Manuela Boatca

30. A life course approach to understanding ethnic health inequalities in later life: an example using the United Kingdom as national context ** Sarah Stopforth, Laia Bécares, James Nazroo, and Dharmi Kapadia

31. The inequalities of empire: comparative perspectives ** Cátia Antunes and Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo

32. How the COVID-19 pandemic is shifting the migrant-inequality narrative Ferdinand C. Mukumbang