Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)
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This day school will help you explore the life course – childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age – through a sociological lens. The course will begin with a brief introduction to the concepts and theories of life course sociology. We will then explore the social construction and crisis accounts of childhood; the meaning of adolescence and the formation of youth cultures; and the meaning of adulthood and variations in styles of parenting (and their effects on children). The course will finish by examining the experience of old age in modern society and consider how sociologists have studied the end of life.