About the Event

What does it mean to live under time? Life course research is fundamentally concerned with time, but less so with the temporal conditions under which people must act as their lives unfold. Richard A. Settersten develops the idea of temporal positioning to examine how socially organised relations to time shape what people can do, when, and on what terms. He distinguishes six temporal relations that provide a vocabulary for examining these conditions across the life course. This perspective opens new questions about age, inequality, institutions, and how lives and trajectories are made through time.

A lecture by Richard A. Settersten, Jr.