Polityka przebiegu życia – teoretyczne i metodologiczne ramy badań nad procesem osiągania dorosłości
Life-course policy – theoretical and methodological issues in research on transitions into adulthood

Summary/Abstract: The article examines theoretical issues underlying research programmes aimed at characterizingtransitions into adulthood in contemporary Poland. This phenomenon seems to have been understudiedin recent decades, and there are several arguments for undertaking it more systematically.While aiming at the formulation of research project objectives, the authoresses examine fourtheoretical and research perspectives. The first is the concept of an institutionalized life course.Secondly, the approaches and theoretical categories applied in youth studies are considered. Theconceptual framework of a “life course policy” and “transition regimes” within social policy studies,as well as the constructionist paradigm in public policy research, makes it possible to gain deeperinsight into the political and institutional frames of biographies of individuals entering adult life.

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