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INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGY
Volume 24, Issue 3, Pages 299-324Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0268580909102910
Keywords
family dynamics; life course research; longitudinal studies
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This article presents an argument for overcoming some of the limits of current family research. To start, some major research questions concerning the future challenges of demographic change and its implications for modern welfare states are addressed. he authors propose an agenda for making progress in this field via two interrelated steps. First, they propose an integration of theoretical approaches explaining family dynamics and design a conceptual framework to model couples' and family dynamics as a process of purposeful individual action and decision-making over the life course. Second, methodological requirements of family research from this theoretical perspective are identified. Conclusions are drawn with regard to longitudinal data collection covering all dimensions of couples' and family dynamics and not just the structural dimensions.
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