Life Course Staging as Cultural and Subjective Practice: Review, Critique, and Theoretical Possibilities

@article{Janssen2009LifeCS,
  title={Life Course Staging as Cultural and Subjective Practice: Review, Critique, and Theoretical Possibilities},
  author={Diederik F. Janssen},
  journal={Culture \& Psychology},
  year={2009},
  volume={15},
  pages={541 - 560}
}
This paper identifies and critically assesses various research approaches to subjective and cultural-historical notions of life stages through the lens of comparative-cultural, psychometric, discursive psychological and ethnographic perspectives. Included is an overview of 48 studies of subjective attributions of life stages (1984—2007) covering 14 national settings, with a discussion of their limitations. Possibilities for cross-fertilizing critical gender theory with life stage theory are… 
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