Making a Life in Yorkville: Experience and Meaning in the Life Course Narrative of an Urban Working-Class Man (The Life Course and Aging)

""Making a Life in Yorkville makes its mark by pushing the study of the life course out of its well worn rut and in an exciting new direction...[It] gives the readers a new appreciation of the factors and processes involved in 'making a life."' -This book provides much to ponder, discuss, argue, and analyze. It certainly could serve as a blueprint for other life-history analyses.- --Contemporary Sociology -This book provides much to ponder, discuss, argue, and analyze. It certainly could serve as a blueprint for other life-history analyses. I think that Handel's concepts of sense of origin, sense of upbringing, perspective on childhood, sense of development, and experiencing the passage of time will fuel discussions around seminar tables for several years to come.- --Kent P. Schwirian, American Sociological Association -Handel does a masterful job of interpreting Santangelo's life story from a symbolic interactionist perspective guided by two general themes: continuity and change in the life course between childhood experiences and adult life; and how agency is expressed within social and historical constraints. . . . This book is a valuable and unique contribution to the growing sociological literature on the life course.- --Viktor Gecas, Washington State University -Making a Life in Yorkville makes its mark by pushing the study of the life course out of its well worn rut and in an exciting new direction. '[It] gives the readers a new appreciation of the factors and processes involved in 'making a life.'- --Spencer E. Cahill, University of South Florida "This book provides much to ponder, discuss, argue, and analyze. It certainly could serve as a blueprint for other life-history analyses." --Contemporary Sociology "This book provides much to ponder, discuss, argue, and analyze. It certainly could serve as a blueprint for other life-history analyses. I think that Handel's concepts of sense of origin, sense of upbringing, perspective on childhood, sense of development, and experiencing the passage of time will fuel discussions around seminar tables for several years to come." --Kent P. Schwirian, American Sociological Association "Handel does a masterful job of interpreting Santangelo's life story from a symbolic interactionist perspective guided by two general themes: continuity and change in the life course between childhood experiences and adult life; and how agency is expressed within social and historical constraints. . . . This book is a valuable and unique contribution to the growing sociological literature on the life course." --Viktor Gecas, Washington State University "Making a Life in Yorkville makes its mark by pushing the study of the life course out of its well worn rut and in an exciting new direction. '[It] gives the readers a new appreciation of the factors and processes involved in 'making a life.'" --Spencer E. Cahill, University of South Florida "This book provides much to ponder, discuss, argue, and analyze. It certainly could serve as a blueprint for other life-history analyses." --Contemporary Sociology "This book provides much to ponder, discuss, argue, and analyze. It certainly could serve as a blueprint for other life-history analyses. I think that Handel's concepts of sense of origin, sense of upbringing, perspective on childhood, sense of development, and experiencing the passage of time will fuel discussions around seminar tables for several years to come." --Kent P. Schwirian, American Sociological Association "Handel does a masterful job of interpreting Santangelo's life story from a symbolic interactionist perspective guided by two general themes: continuity and change in the life course between childhood experiences and adult life; and how agency is expressed within social and historical constraints. . . . This book is a valuable and unique contribution to the growing sociological literature on the life course." --Viktor Gecas, Washington State University "Making a Life in Yorkville makes its mark by pushing the study of the life course out of its well worn rut and in an exciting new direction. '[It] gives the readers a new appreciation of the factors and processes involved in 'making a life.'" --Spencer E. Cahill, University of South Florida "This book provides much to ponder, discuss, argue, and analyze. It certainly could serve as a blueprint for other life-history analyses."-- "Contemporary Sociology" "Handel does a masterful job of interpreting Santangelo's life story from a symbolic interactionist perspective guided by two general themes: continuity and change in the life course between childhood experiences and adult life; and how agency is expressed within social and historical constraints. This book is a valuable and unique contribution to the growing sociological literature on the life course." --Viktor Gecas, "Washington State University" "Making a Life in Yorkville makes its mark by pushing the study of the life course out of its well worn rut and in an exciting new direction [It] gives the readers a new appreciation of the factors and processes involved in making a life.'"--Spencer E. Cahill, "University of South Florida "