This commentary reinforces a central commitment of life course research: to make visible how social change matters in human lives. This paper captures a moderated conversation with four senior scholars about how they came to study the intersection between social change and life experience, why this intersection is so important to life course studies, and theoretical and methodological imperatives and challenges that come with it.
Keywords: age; cohort; coping and adaptation; historical events; life trajectories; life transitions; longitudinal; social action; social change; social inequalities.