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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Négroni -- Conjugal deparation and immigration in the life course of immigrant single mothers in Québec / 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.

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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