Biography and Turning Points in Europe and America

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Mrozowicki, Adam and Burski, Jacek 2024. Pandemic as a Biographical Turning Point? The Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Biographies of “Essential Workers”. Qualitative Sociology Review, Vol. 20, Issue. 2, p. 70.

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Edited by Karla B. Hackstaff, Northern Arizona University, Feiwel Kupferberg, Malmö Universitet, Sweden, Catherine Negroni, Université de Lille

Publisher:: Bristol University Press
Online publication date:: September 2022
Print publication year:: 2012
Online ISBN:: 9781447307402
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.46692/9781447307402

Subjects:: Demography, Social Statistics, Sociology

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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.

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iii

Notes on contributors
pp iv-vi

Introduction: Advancing the dialogue on turning points
pp 1-8

one - Unpacking biographical narratives: investigating stories of artistic careers in Northern Jutland, Denmark
pp 9-40

two - Turning points in the life course: a narrative concept in professional bifurcations
pp 41-64

three - Conjugal separation and immigration in the life course of immigrant single mothers in Québec
pp 65-92

four - Migration biography and ethnic identity: on the discontinuity of biographical experience and how turning points affect the ethnicisation of biography
pp 93-124

five - Biographical structuring through a critical life event: parental loss during childhood
pp 125-142

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
pp 143-166

seven - The turning points of the single life course in Budapest, Hungary
pp 167-186

eight - Complicating actions and complicated lives: raising questions about narrative theory through an exploration of lesbian lives
pp 187-206

nine - Religious conversion as a biographical turn/ing: the case of Orthodox believers in contemporary Russia
pp 207-226

ten - Conclusion: theorising turning points and decoding narratives
pp 227-260

Index
pp 261-266

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