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Titolo: | Biography and turning points in Europe and America / / edited by Karla B. Hackstaff, Feiwel Kupferberg and Catherine Négroni [[electronic resource]] |
Pubblicazione: | Bristol : , : Policy, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (vi, 266 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina: | 808.06692 |
Soggetto topico: | Biography as a literary form |
Life change events | |
Persona (resp. second.): | HackstaffKarla B. <1954-> |
KupferbergFeiwel <1946-> | |
NégroniCatherine | |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Biography and turning points in Europe and America |
ISBN: | 1-4473-0765-8 |
1-280-87748-0 | |
9786613718792 | |
1-4473-0740-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910815650603321 |
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