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A mutli-disciplinary model of life-course canalization and agency

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2019
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Heckhausen, J., & Buchmann, M. (2019). A mutli-disciplinary model of life-course canalization and agency. Advances in Life Course Research, 41, 100246. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2018.09.002

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This article integrates life-course sociological insights and perspectives with the conceptions of agency and individual motivation formulated as the motivational theory of life-span development. We use Waddington’s epigenetic landscape as a metaphor for how life courses are shaped jointly by societal structure and individual agency. Social structure imposes constraints and institutions provide the transitions and pathways that together constitute critical scaffolding for life-course timing and path dependency (“canalization”). The bu

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41

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2019-09-01

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1569-4909

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Heckhausen, J., & Buchmann, M. (2019). A mutli-disciplinary model of life-course canalization and agency. Advances in Life Course Research, 41, 100246. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2018.09.002

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