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Welcome to the LIVES wiki-glossary!

This wiki is dedicated to helping researchers in the social sciences, junior or advanced, who need to have an overview of the critical concepts associated with research on vulnerability in a life course perspective. This initiative aims to make interdisciplinary research more straightforward. With over 30 central concepts described and explained, it includes terms such as vulnerability, trajectories, reserves, cumulative (dis)advantages, resilience, longitudinal data (retrospective and prospective) and many more.

It is a project of the Centre LIVES

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List of definitions

Concept	Author(s)	LIVES Glossary visualisation
Capabilities	Jean-Michel Bonvin
Causality	Paulo Ghisletta
Career development	Koorosh Massoudi, Jacques-Antoine Gauthier, Ieva Urbanaviciute
Cumulative (dis)advantages	Marie Beariswyl
Employability	Michele Pellizzari, Daniel Oesch, Rafael Lalive
Family ties	Eric Widmer
Gender regimes	Nicky Le Feuvre
Life course	Laura Bernardi, Dario Spini
Life domains	Laura Bernardi, Danilo Bolano
Interdependencies across life course dimensions	Jacques-Antoine Gauthier, Danilo Bolano
Longitudinal Data	Jean-Marie Le-Goff, Clémentine Rossier, Matthias Studer
Meso level	Mattia Vacchiano, Dario Spini
Missing data	André Berchtold
Mixed methods	Emilie Joly-Burra, Oana Ciobanu, Paolo Ghisletta
Reserves	Marie Beariswyl
Resources - fusionner avec: Resources (personal, social, economic, etc.)	Laura Bernardi, Danilo Bolano, Marie Beariswyl
Social capital	Mattia Vacchiano, Dario Spini, Olga Ganjour, Eric Widmer
Social groups	Christian Staerklé
Trajectories	Jacques-Antoine Gauthier, Jonas Masdonati, Koorosh Massoudi, Shagini Udayar, Ieva Urbanaviciute
Transition-bifurcation	Jean-Marie Le Goff, Alexandra M. Freund
Stress and stressors	Marie Beariswyl
Vulnerability	Dario Spini, Laura Bernardi

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