How Places Shape Lives: Life Course Trajectories and Population Processes

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Original abstract

This paper examines how place organizes life course trajectories and shapes population processes. It does so by structuring cumulative and unequal exposure to relationships, institutions, and opportunities over time. These spatially patterned exposures shape trajectories across the life course and contribute to population heterogeneity and stratification. Drawing on a life course perspective, the paper shows how place is constitutive of processes in domains including education, work, family life, and mobility, and how these experiences are implicated in divergence across cohorts and generations. It also considers how daily activity spaces, remembered environments, and symbolic attachments to place contribute to the formation of selves and to the reproduction of social and cultural meanings over time. The paper develops a conceptual account that treats place as a layered and cumulative dimension of life course processes, offering a more analytically coherent understanding of how spatial exposure shapes trajectories and population dynamics, and outlining implications for theory, research questions, and the measurement and modeling of place in life course research.

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