Biography and turning points in Europe and America / / edited by Karla B. Hackstaff, Feiwel Kupferberg and Catherine Négroni [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779106903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bristol : , : Policy, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-4473-0765-8; 1-280-87748-0; 9786613718792; 1-4473-0740-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vi, 266 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 808.06692
• Soggetti: Biography as a literary form; Life change events
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Sep 2022).
• 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.