Talk:Life course theory

Copyvio

 * It's still a VERY close copy, close enough that it could be considered a copyvio. I would suggest a rewrite. Vicenarian  (Said | Done) 17:05, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I've edited a bit more...it's close, but I don't believe it's blatant infringement.Smallman12q (talk) 17:26, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
 * It looks a lot better. :) Vicenarian  (Said | Done) 17:36, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks.Smallman12q (talk) 18:15, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * As far as I understand, the copy&paste part is still in the article. Perhaps we should simply delete the first part. Blauenfels (talk) 01:01, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Merge with Life Course Approach
In fact, the lemma Life course approach deals with the same thing, only from another discipline - health research. Therefore, I would highly recommend to merge both of the articles to prove the interdisciplinarity of the approach as described in the article. Nonetheless, I also ply for using the title "life course approach" instead of "life course theory" because there is no such thing as a theory of the life course - at least from a sociological viewpoint. Life course theory is still an empirical field with only some theoretical conceptions but no coherent theory at all. Blauenfels (talk) 01:01, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I merged and shortened the two articles, because there were no objections. I have chosen the term "approach" because "theory" implies a formal social theory which is non-existent so far (cf. Mayer 2009). Blauenfels (talk) 14:00, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed
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