Module Overview

The primary aim of this module is to conceptualise and explore (human/individual) adaptation and adjustment to normative and non-normative change throughout the lifespan. A key focus of the module is to highlight the changing meanings and vantage points associated with the processes and timing of these transitions. The module opens with an overview of key constructs in the conceptualization of transitions across the lifespan. The concept of transitions is explored across the lifespan with reference to the different domains of life which they may impact on, such as individual and social identities, relationship and work contexts. Types of life events are explored as, for example, normative age-graded life events (onset typically related to chronological age), normative history-graded life events (cohort specific and strong relationship with historical time) and non-normative life events (typically not occurring in age-graded or history-graded manner).