Turns in the road : narrative studies of lives in transition /
Analyzes personalized life narratives to understand significant turning points in the human life course and to answer this central question: How do people make meaning out of the transitions in their lives? Among the transitions examined are adolescent identity struggles, the move from school to wor...
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| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC :
American Psychological Association,
[2001]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Ative Study of Lives Ser.
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Table of Contents:
- Narrating life's turning points : redemption and contamination / Dan P. McAdams, Philip J. Bowman
- The crime, punishment, and ethical transformation of two radicals : or how Katherine Power improves on Dostoevsky / Janet Landman
- De profundis : prison as a turning point in Oscar Wilde's life story / William Todd Schultz
- Ever upward and no turning back : social mobility and identity formation among first-generation college students / J. Scott Roberts, George C. Rosenwald
- Moving up and the problem of explaining an "unreasonable" ambition / Richard L. Ochberg, William Comeau
- Serendipity and agency in narratives of transition : young adult women and their careers / Marcy Plunkett
- The setback of a doctor's career / Varpu Löyttyniemi
- Women's understandings of their own divorces : a developmental perspective / Amy M. Young, Abigail J. Stewart, Kathi Miner-Rubino
- Adolescents' representations of the parent voice in stories of personal turning points / Michael W. Pratt, Mary Louise Arnold, Kathleen Mackey
- Living in the amber cloud : a life story analysis of a heroin addict / Jefferson A. Singer
- Sense of place and its import for life transitions : the case of HIV-positive individuals / Michele L. Crossley.