We are pleased to announce the release of a special issue of Advances in Life Course Research, “Networked Lives: Probing the Influence of Social Networks on the Life Course.”
The special issue connects the fields of life course and social network research, stimulates productive dialog between them, and illustrates the power of this intersection for advancing theories, concepts, methods, and data.
Nine articles by renowned authors of both fields address cutting edge questions on mechanisms of personal network dynamics and the impact of relationships and networks in different phases of the life course. Topics include status attainment, health and well-being, homogeneity in friendships, internet use and social connectedness and the significance of unlinked lives. Two commentaries by Marlis Buchmann and Peter V. Marsden complete the issue with reflections on current challenges and promising directions.
A selection of articles, asterisked below*, are currently open or full-text access.
All best wishes,
Betina, Rick, Dario and Mattia, Editors
TABLE OF CONTENTS
“Networked Lives: Probing the Influence of Social Networks
on the Life Course”
Special Issue of Advances in Life
Course Research
Editors: Betina Hollstein, Richard. A. Settersten, Jr.,
Dario Spini & Mattia Vacchiano
*=open or currently full-text access
Introduction
*Networked Lives: Probing the
influence of social networks on the life course
Mattia Vacchiano,
Betina Hollstein, Richard A. Settersten, Jr. & Dario
Spini
Research articles
*”Unlinked lives”: Elaboration of
a concept and its significance for the life course
Richard A. Settersten
Jr., Betina Hollstein & Kara McElvaine
*Personal network dynamics
across the life course: A relationship-related
structural approach
Betina Hollstein
Interconnected social convoys: Understanding health and
well-being through linked personal networks
Laura M. Koehly &
Jasmine A. Manalel
*Multilevel networks
and status attainment
Mattia Vacchiano,
Emmanuel Lazega & Dario Spini
When life happens: A multidimensional approach to studying
the effects of major life events on relationship change
Chang Z. Lin &
Alexandra Marin
Linked lives and
convoys of social relations
Noah J. Webster, Toni
C. Antonucci & Kristine J. Ajrouch
Life course transitions and changes in network ties among
younger and older adults
Jordan Weiss, Leora
Lawton & Claude S. Fischer
*“Birds of a feather” – forever?
Homogeneity in adult friendship networks through the
life course
Beate Völker
Internet use and
cohort change in social connectedness among older adults
Shannon Ang
Commentaries
*Bridging social network and
life course research: Unlocking the analytical potential
Marlis Buchmann
On integrating social network and life course research
Peter V. Marsden