Biography and the Sociological Imagination: Contexts and Contingencies - Softcover

Macmillan, Ross; Shanahan, Michael J.

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9780393976083: Biography and the Sociological Imagination: Contexts and Contingencies
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ISBN 10: 0393976084 ISBN 13: 9780393976083
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007

Synopsis

Biography and the Sociological Imagination introduces readers to life course sociology, the imaginative framework with which people can think about how their lives reflect the imprint of society, how this imprint reflects the intersection of social changes and personal development, and how these processes are greatly complicated by each person's unique location in society.

Because life course sociology is an imaginative framework, Biography and the Sociological Imagination is less about "what we know" about the life course and more about "how to think" about changing societies and aging by drawing on life course ideas. Drawing from the latest research and using stories of real people, Shanahan and Macmillan spur readers to imagine alternative ways of organizing society and the implications of these alternatives for the biography.

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About the Authors

Ross Macmillan is an associate professor at the University of Minnesota and the editor of The Structure of the Life Course: Individualized? Standardized? Differentiated.


Michael J. Shanahan is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina. He has co-edited Comparisons in Human Development: Understanding Time and Context, Transitions to Adulthood in a Changing Economy: No Work, No Family, No Future?, and the Handbook of the Life Course.

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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0393976084
ISBN 13 
9780393976083
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
326
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