Contents // Foreword: Crafting Life Course Studies Anne Colby // Preface // Vlll // XIII // Part I // The Life Course Mode of Inquiry // Chapter 1 Life Course Research: Development of a Field Janet Z. Giele and Glen H. Elder, Jr. // Chapter 2 A Life Course Approach: // Autobiographical Notes Matilda White Riley // 28 // Chapter 3 The Craft of Life Course Studies Angela M. O’Rand // 52 // Part Đź // Data Collection and Measurement // Chapter 4 Data Organization and Conceptualization Nancy Karweit and David Kertzer // Chapter 5 Retrospective Versus Prospective Measurement of Life Histories in Longitudinal Research Jacqueline Scott and Duane Alwin // Chapter 6 Finding Respondents in a Follow-Up Study Donna Dempster-McClain and Phyllis Moen // Chapter 7 Collecting Life History Data: Experiences From the German Life History Study Erika Brückner and Karl Ulrich Mayer // 75 // 81 // 98 // 128 // 152 // Part III // Strategies for Analysis // Chapter 8 Life Reviews and Life Stories John A. Clausen // Chapter 9 Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Data John H. Laub and Robert J. Sampson // Chapter 10 Innovation in the Typical Life Course Janet Z. Giele // Chapter 11 Linking History and Human Lives // Glen H. Elder, Jr. and Lisa A. Pellerin // 183 // 189 // 213 // 231 // 264 // References Name Index Subject Index About the Contributors // 295 // 324 // 331 // 339