This book gives a general view of sequence analysis, the statistical study of successions of states or events. It includes innovative contributions on life course studies, transitions into and out of employment, contemporaneous and historical careers, and political trajectories. The approach presented in this book is now central to the life-course perspective and the study of social processes more generally. This volume promotes the dialogue between approaches to sequence analysis that developed separately, within traditions contrasted in space and disciplines. It includes the latest developments in sequential concepts, coding, atypical datasets and time patterns, optimal matching and alternative algorithms, survey optimization, and visualization. Field studies include original sequential material related to parenting in 19th-century Belgium, higher education and work in Finland and Italy, family formation before and after German reunification, French Jews persecuted in occupied France, long-term trends in electoral participation, and regime democratization. Overall the book reassesses the classical uses of sequences and it promotes new ways of collecting, formatting, representing and processing them. The introduction provides basic sequential concepts and tools, as well as a history of the method. Chapters are presented in a way that is both accessible to the beginner and informative to the expert.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Springer International Publishing Ag
ISBN-13
9783319049687
eBay Product ID (ePID)
195051186
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Children & Family, Social Research, Political Science
Author
Jacques-Antoine Gauthier, Philippe Blanchard, Felix Buhlmann
Publication Name
Advances in Sequence Analysis: Theory, Method, Applications
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Sociology
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
235mm
Item Width
155mm
Volume
2
Item Weight
6033g
Additional Product Features
Series Title
Life Course Research and Social Policies
Country/Region of Manufacture
Switzerland
Editor
Felix Buhlmann, Jacques-Antoine Gauthier, Philippe Blanchard