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What's the latest? — 2: Cultural age deadlines for educational and work transitions
Author(s)	Richard A Settersten, Gunhild O Hägestad
Journal title	The Gerontologist, vol 36, no 5, October 1996
Pages	pp 602-613
Keywords	Life span ; The Family ; Educational status [elderly] ; Employment ; Social roles ; Transitional phase ; United States of America.
Annotation	The authors examine cultural age 'deadlines' for a series of general transitions related to education and work, based on their interviews with a sample of 319 adults in Chicago. While a rough 'normal biography' of educational and work life existed in respondents' minds, the deadlines attached to that biography were flexible rather than rigid. The authors relate these findings to complementary evidence on family transitions, the degree to which various life spheres (e.g. family, education and work) are more or less structured by age, and the degree to which men's lives are more or less structured by age compared to women's lives.
Accession Number	CPA-970528005 A
Classmark	BG6: SJ: F:V: WJ: TM5: 4MT: 7T
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