Biography and Turning Points in Europe and America Hardback
Edited by Karla B. (Department of Sociology and Social Work, Northern Arizona University.) Hackstaff, Feiwel (Department of Educational Sociology, Danish Educational University) Kupferberg, Catherine Negroni
Hardback
Description
This sociological collection advances the argument that the concept of a "turning point" expands our understanding of life experiences from a descriptive to a deeper and more abstract level of analysis.
It addresses the conceptual issue of what distinguishes turning points from life transitions in general and raises crucial questions about the application of turning points as a biographical research method.
Biography and turning points in Europe and America is all the more distinctive and significant due to its broad empirical database.
The anthology includes authors from ten different countries, providing a number of contexts for thinking about how turning points relate to constructions of meaning shaped by globalization and by cultural and structural meanings unique to each country.
The book will be useful across a wide range of social sciences and particularly valuable for researchers needing a stronger theoretical base for biographical work.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:272 pages, No
- Publisher:Policy Press
- Publication Date:22/06/2012
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- ISBN:9781847428608
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:272 pages, No
- Publisher:Policy Press
- Publication Date:22/06/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9781847428608
