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Sociology · Chapter 5

The Life Course

Growing up looks like biology doing its work. But the stages a life gets cut into — where childhood ends, whether adolescence exists at all, when a person becomes old — are decided by a society, not by a body. Tap any stage to see who is socializing you there. Then push the map back a century and watch the stages move.

A life, divided

Tap a stage on the track to see who is shaping you there.
The life coursetap a stage to begin