Advances in Life Course Research is making an important transition. Growing up from a successful annual book series, brilliantly and carefully developed under the guidance of Timothy J. Owens as founding editor, it has now become a full-fledged, quarterly, scientific journal. Advances experiences a major turning point in its own trajectory and becomes an “adult” also thanks to the vision of Elsevier. The timing of this “transition to adulthood” is not haphazard. The life course as a scientific idea, theoretical orientation, approach and interdisciplinary field of research has been entering its stage of maturity in the most recent years, since its establishment during the 1970s (Mayer, 2009, p. 414). Signs of this emerging adulthood were already visible through the reviews on the life course perspective and research that were carried out during the first half of the decade 2000 ([Elder et al., 2003], [Macmillan, 2005], [Mayer, 2000] and [Mortimer and Shanahan, 2003]). Concluding remarks in such reviews were systematically different from the ones sketched in earlier (Elder, 1992 Elder, G. H. Jr. (1992). Life Course. In E. Borgatta & M. Borgatta (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Sociology (pp. 1120–1130). New York: Macmillan.[Elder, 1992], [Kohli, 1986], [Mayer and Schoepflin, 1989] and [Settersten and Mayer, 1997]) or pioneering reviews ([Elder, 1975] and [Neugarten and Datan, 1973]). Since the 2000s, within life course research, areas that have delivered enough innovative and solid knowledge are emerging as identifiable. The life course has come of age.

The life course is coming of age

BILLARI, FRANCESCO CANDELORO
2009

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Advances in Life Course Research is making an important transition. Growing up from a successful annual book series, brilliantly and carefully developed under the guidance of Timothy J. Owens as founding editor, it has now become a full-fledged, quarterly, scientific journal. Advances experiences a major turning point in its own trajectory and becomes an “adult” also thanks to the vision of Elsevier. The timing of this “transition to adulthood” is not haphazard. The life course as a scientific idea, theoretical orientation, approach and interdisciplinary field of research has been entering its stage of maturity in the most recent years, since its establishment during the 1970s (Mayer, 2009, p. 414). Signs of this emerging adulthood were already visible through the reviews on the life course perspective and research that were carried out during the first half of the decade 2000 ([Elder et al., 2003], [Macmillan, 2005], [Mayer, 2000] and [Mortimer and Shanahan, 2003]). Concluding remarks in such reviews were systematically different from the ones sketched in earlier (Elder, 1992 Elder, G. H. Jr. (1992). Life Course. In E. Borgatta & M. Borgatta (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Sociology (pp. 1120–1130). New York: Macmillan.[Elder, 1992], [Kohli, 1986], [Mayer and Schoepflin, 1989] and [Settersten and Mayer, 1997]) or pioneering reviews ([Elder, 1975] and [Neugarten and Datan, 1973]). Since the 2000s, within life course research, areas that have delivered enough innovative and solid knowledge are emerging as identifiable. The life course has come of age.
2009
Billari, FRANCESCO CANDELORO
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