Abstract
Abstract The life course perspective is a theoretical approach to understanding how social factors shape individual and familial lives from birth to death. It emerged in the mid‐twentieth century and emphasizes the interrelationships between age, cohort, and historical and social contexts in the trajectory of an individual's life. Over the duration of one's life, earlier transitions and turning points shape later life outcomes, accumulating advantages and disadvantages over the life course. As societies have entered the age of the postnuclear family, scholars have recognized how social marginalization and a variety of family structures play a major role in understanding the life course. The life course perspective has been particularly useful for linking lives and families to the institutional, historical, social, and economic contexts in which they are situated.
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