Biography and the Sociological Imagination: Contexts and Contingencies

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.

Author: Ross MacMillan, Michael J. Shanahan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 07/30/2007
Pages: 326
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780393976083

About the Author
MacMillan, Ross: - Ross Macmillan is an associate professor at the University of Minnesota and the editor of The Structure of the Life Course: Individualized? Standardized? Differentiated.
Shanahan, Michael J.: - 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.