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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Table of contents
- Biography and Turning points in Europe and America
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction: Advancing the dialogue on turning points
- One: Unpacking biographical narratives: investigating stories of artistic careers in Northern Jutland, Denmark
- Two: Turning points in the life course: a narrative concept in professional bifurcations
- Three: Conjugal separation and immigration in the life course of immigrant single mothers in Québec
- Four: Migration biography and ethnic identity: on the discontinuity of biographical experience and how turning points affect the ethnicisation of identity
- Five: Biographical structuring through a critical life event: parental loss during childhood
- Six: 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
- Seven: The turning points of the single life course in Budapest, Hungary
- Eight: Complicating actions and complicated lives: raising questions about narrative theory through an exploration of lesbian lives
- Nine: Religious conversion as a biographical turn/ing: the case of Orthodox believers in contemporary Russia
- Ten: Conclusion: theorising turning points and decoding narratives
- Index
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