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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

Please, cite https://glossary.centre-lives.ch as reference for any use of the wiki-glossary.

List of definitions

• Capabilities
• Causality
• Career development
• Cumulative (dis)advantages
• Employability
• Family ties
• Gender regimes
• Life course
• Life domains
• Interdependencies across life course dimensions
• Longitudinal Data
• Meso level
• Missing data
• Mixed methods
• Reserves
  • Constitution : passive and active
  • Activation, depletion and reconstitution
  • Threshold
  • Domains
• Resources - fusionner avec: Resources (personal, social, economic, etc.)
• Social capital
• Social groups
• Trajectories
• Transition-bifurcation
• Stress and stressors
• Vulnerability

Semantic network visualisation

• LIVES Glossary visualisation

Planning

• Worksheet
• Special:RecentChanges

Help and Testing

• Editing Examples
• Sandbox