"Unlinked lives": Elaboration of a concept and its significance for the life course.
Adv Life Course Res
; 59: 100583, 2024 03.
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ABSTRACT
This article introduces the concept of "unlinked lives" and illustrates its significance for scholarship on the life course. There are many lessons to be learned about human interdependence by focusing not on relationships that are formed and then maintained, but instead on relationships that are lost or ended by choice or circumstance, such as through changes in institutional affiliations, social status and positions or places. Unlinked lives carry important social meanings, are embedded in complex social processes, and bring consequences for the wellbeing of individuals, families, and societies. To develop this concept, we put forward nine key propositions related to when and how unlinkings happen as processes, as well as some of the consequences of being unlinked as a status or outcome. The coupling of "unlinked lives" with "linked lives" offers a crucial avenue for advancing life course theories and research, integrating scholarship across multiple life periods and transitions, and bridging the two now-distinct traditions of intellectual inquiry on the life course and on social networks.
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Instituciones de Salud
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Acontecimientos que Cambian la Vida
Límite:
Humans
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En
Revista:
Adv Life Course Res
Año:
2024
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Article
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