TY - JOUR
T1 - Understanding the effects of Covid-19 through a life course lens
AU - Settersten, Richard A.
AU - Bernardi, Laura
AU - Härkönen, Juho
AU - Antonucci, Toni C.
AU - Dykstra, Pearl A.
AU - Heckhausen, Jutta
AU - Kuh, Diana
AU - Mayer, Karl Ulrich
AU - Moen, Phyllis
AU - Mortimer, Jeylan T.
AU - Mulder, Clara H.
AU - Smeeding, Timothy M.
AU - van der Lippe, Tanja
AU - Hagestad, Gunhild O.
AU - Kohli, Martin
AU - Levy, René
AU - Schoon, Ingrid
AU - Thomson, Elizabeth
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020
PY - 2020/9
Y1 - 2020/9
N2 - The Covid-19 pandemic is shaking fundamental assumptions about the human life course in societies around the world. In this essay, we draw on our collective expertise to illustrate how a life course perspective can make critical contributions to understanding the pandemic's effects on individuals, families, and populations. We explore the pandemic's implications for the organization and experience of life transitions and trajectories within and across central domains: health, personal control and planning, social relationships and family, education, work and careers, and migration and mobility. We consider both the life course implications of being infected by the Covid-19 virus or attached to someone who has; and being affected by the pandemic's social, economic, cultural, and psychological consequences. It is our goal to offer some programmatic observations on which life course research and policies can build as the pandemic's short- and long-term consequences unfold.
AB - The Covid-19 pandemic is shaking fundamental assumptions about the human life course in societies around the world. In this essay, we draw on our collective expertise to illustrate how a life course perspective can make critical contributions to understanding the pandemic's effects on individuals, families, and populations. We explore the pandemic's implications for the organization and experience of life transitions and trajectories within and across central domains: health, personal control and planning, social relationships and family, education, work and careers, and migration and mobility. We consider both the life course implications of being infected by the Covid-19 virus or attached to someone who has; and being affected by the pandemic's social, economic, cultural, and psychological consequences. It is our goal to offer some programmatic observations on which life course research and policies can build as the pandemic's short- and long-term consequences unfold.
KW - age
KW - cohort
KW - coronavirus disease 2019
KW - generation
KW - life domains
KW - life trajectories
KW - life transitions
KW - social change
KW - social inequality
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U2 - 10.1016/j.alcr.2020.100360
DO - 10.1016/j.alcr.2020.100360
M3 - Article
C2 - 36698274
AN - SCOPUS:85094880207
SN - 1569-4909
VL - 45
JO - Advances in Life Course Research
JF - Advances in Life Course Research
M1 - 100360
ER -
