Introduction- Chapter 1: Doing Transitions: A New Research Perspective, Andreas Walther, Barbara Stauber and Richard A. Settersten, Jr.
- Chapter 2: The Trajectories of a Life, Ted Schatzki
Part 1: Institutions and Organisations
- Chapter 3: Welfare States as Transition Regimes: Reconstruction from International Comparisons of Young People''s Transitions to Work, Andreas Walther
- Chapter 4: Young People''s Use and Construction of Institutional Support in Transitions from School to Work, Heidi Hirschfeld and Bianca Lenz
- Chapter 5: Young Adults'' Exclusive Educational Careers in the Transition to Higher Education or Employment: Key Findings of a Qualitative Longitudinal Study, Heinz-Hermann Kruger
- Chapter 6: Organizations as Collective Subjects in the Formation of Transitions Over the Life Course, Eva Heinrich, Nils Klevermann and Bernhard Schmidt-Hertha
- Chapter 7: Aging Transitions at Work: The Embodied Experience of Becoming Older, Kathleen Riach
Part 2: Times and Normativities of Transitions
- Chapter 8: Relative Time and Life Course Research, Nuria Sanchez Mira and Laura Bernardi
- Chapter 9: Biographical Articulation in Transition, Noreen Eberle, Jessica Lutgens, Andrea Pohling, Tina Spies and Petra Bauer
- Chapter 10: Beyond the Mundane: "Everything but Ordinary"? Reflections on Extra-/Ordinariness in Life Course Transitions, Anna Wanka and Julia Prescher
- Chapter 11: Becoming ''(Ab-)Normal'': Normality, Deviance, and Doing Life Course Transitions, Tobias Boll
Part 3: Materialities and Transitions
- Chapter 12: The Multidimensionality of Materiality: Bodies, Space, and Things in Transitions, Deborah Nagler and Anna Wanka
- Chapter 13: Bodies in Transition: Gendered and Medicalized Discourses in Pregnancy Advice Literature, Janne Krumbugel
- Chapter 14: How Spatial Sensitivity Enriches Understanding Transitions in Childhood and Later Life, Tabea Freutel-Funke & Helena Muller
Outlook
- Chapter 15: The Significance of Relationality in Doing Transitions, Richard A. Settersten, Jr., Barbara Stauber, and Andreas Walther
