Abstract
Social sciences have investigated the life course in numerous different ways. Long-established approaches to the life course can be identified in psychology, sociology and in demography. In psychology, individual life courses have received considerable attention, referred to as life-span psychology, for example, in studies of the cognitive and emotional development of individuals. Demography and sociology have been more interested in overall data concerning the populations of national states, for example, in terms of fertility, longevity and many other characteristics of life courses of the residents of a given country, such as the age at which men and women marry, etc. Another sociological focus has been put on the micro-level analysis of life cycles and transitions. Sociology and anthropology have also focused on some aspects of life courses, such as the question as to whether one can distinguish specific characteristics of particular generations or whether there are significant variations in life courses in different cultures.
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