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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453041003321

Titolo

Biography and Turning Points in Europe and America / edited by Karla B. Hackstaff, Feiwel Kupferberg, and Catherine Negroni

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol : , : Policy Press, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

1-4473-0765-8

1-280-87748-0

9786613718792

1-4473-0740-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

NegroniCatherine

KupferbergFeiwel <1946->

HackstaffKarla B. <1954->

Disciplina

920.002

Soggetti

Life change events

Biography as a literary form

SOCIAL SCIENCE - Research

REFERENCE - Writing Skills

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES - Rhetoric

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES - Composition & Creative Writing

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Unpacking biographical narratives: investigating stories of artistic careers in Northern Jutland, Denmark / Feiwel Kupferberg -- Turning points in the life course: a narrative concept in professional bifurcations / Catherine Negroni -- Conjugal deparation and immigration in the life course of immigrant single mothers in Quebec / Ana Gherghel and Marie-Christine Saint-Jacques -- MIgration biography and ethnic identity: on the discontinuity of biographical experience and how turning points affect the ethnicisation of biography / Thea D. Boldt -- Biographical structuring through a critical life event: parental loss during childhood / Gerhard Jost -- Decisive turning



points in life trajectories of violence among young men in the barrios of Caracas: the initiation and biographical reconversion to non-violent lifestyles / Verónica Zubillaga -- The turning points of the single life course in Budapest, Hungary / Ágnes Sántha -- Complicating actions and complicated lives: raising questions about narrative theory through an exploration of lesbian lives / Nicki Ward -- Religious conversion as a biographical turn/ing: the case of Orthodox believers in contemporary Russia / Liana Ipatova -- Conclusion: theorising turning points and decoding narratives / Feiwel Kupferberg.

Sommario/riassunto

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.