Socioeconomic Achievement in the Life Course of Disadvantaged Men: Military Service as a Turning Point, Circa 1940-1965

1996 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Sampson ◽  
John H. Laub
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Socioeconomic Achievement ◽  
The Life Course

Military Service in the Life Course

2007 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alair MacLean ◽  
Glen H. Elder
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Military Service ◽  
The Life Course

Military Service and (Dis)Continuity in the Life Course

2006 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew S. London ◽  
Janet M. Wilmoth
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Military Service ◽  
The Life Course

Wartime in Men's Lives: A Comparative Study of American and Japanese Cohorts

1987 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glen H. Elder ◽  
Yoriko Meguro
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Japanese Men ◽  
Older Americans ◽  
City Life ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Guidance Study

Wars and military conscription have involved millions of men, women, and children, though very little is known about their long-term effect on lives. Using cohorts of American and Japanese men, this study investigates three hypothesised effects of World War II. War mobilisation and related experiences: (1) altered the timing and sequencing of events in the transition to adulthood, especially when they occurred relatively early in life; (2) increased educational advancement and occupational opportunity; and (3) generally produced life changes that made the war a perceived turning point in the life course. Each of these propositions applies mainly to men who were mobilised at an early age. Data come from the Shizuoka city life history study of 1982, and from two longitudinal archives at the Institute of Human Development, Berkeley (the Oakland Growth Study and the Berkeley Guidance Study). The older Japanese men were born in 1918-24; the older Americans, in 1920-21. Younger cohorts include Japanese men born in 1927-30 and American men born in 1928-29. Especially among men in the younger cohort, Japanese and American, results from the data analysis generally provide empirical support for the life-course alteration, opportunity, and turning point hypotheses.

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