Social sequence analysis includes a diverse and rapidly growing body of methods that social scientists have developed to help study complex ordered social processes‎,‎ including chains of transitions‎,‎ trajectories and other ordered phenomena‎.‎ Social sequence analysis is not limited by content or time scale and can be used in many different fields‎,‎ including sociology‎,‎ communication‎,‎ information science and psychology‎.‎ Social Sequence Analysis aims to bring together both foundational and recent theoretical and methodological work on social sequences from the last thirty years‎.‎ A unique reference book for a new generation of social scientists‎,‎ this book will aid demographers who study life‎-course trajectories and family histories‎,‎ sociologists who study career paths or work/family schedules‎,‎ communication scholars and micro‎-sociologists who study conversation‎,‎ interaction structures and small‎-group dynamics‎,‎ as well as social epidemiologists‎.‎