Constructing the Life Course

Constructing the Life Course offers a social constructionist perspective on personal experience through time. The text shows the variety of ways people use life course imagery in their everyday lives and makes a useful addition to family studies or gerontology courses.

Preface

ix

Introduction

1

(4)

Perspectives on the Life Course

5

(23)

Some Conventional Approaches to Life Change

8

(1)

Behavioral Approach

9

(1)

Psychoanalytic Approach

10

(3)

Cognitive Approach

13

(2)

Covert Personality Approach

15

(1)

Symbolic Interactionist Approach

16

(4)

Functionalist Approach

20

(1)

Psychocultural Approach

21

(1)

Differences and Similarities

22

(2)

Putting Aside the Conventional

24

(4)

The Constructionist Approach

28

(23)

The Analytic Framework

31

(3)

The Life Course Across Culture and History

34

(6)

Constructionist Assumptions

40

(1)

Bracketing the Life World

41

(2)

Situated Rationality

43

(3)

Documenting the Construction Process

46

(1)

Method, Emphases and Sources

47

(4)

Typifying Life Change

51

(32)

The Typification Process

52

(2)

Typification in Practice

54

(3)

Typification Shifts

57

(2)

Domains of Typification

59

(1)

A Lay Example

59

(2)

A Professional Example

61

(7)

Interpreting ``Strange'' Actions

68

(3)

Discerning the Adequately Normal

71

(8)

Being ``On Time'' or ``Off Time''

79

(4)

Predicting Futures

83

(35)

The School as a Future Oriented Setting

84

(2)

Classroom Life

86

(4)

Schoolchildren's Futures

90

(1)

Predicting Growth in the Early Days

91

(4)

Constructing Tracks

95

(5)

Assessing Potential

100

(2)

Producing Appropriate Answers

102

(4)

``Practically'' Adequate Solutions

106

(2)

Glossing Over Interpretive Practice

108

(2)

Negotiating Placement

110

(8)

Constructing Competence

118

(37)

Situated Assignment

120

(3)

Imputing Readiness

123

(4)

Collaborative Accomplishment

127

(11)

Accounting for Incompetence

138

(12)

Interpretive Variability

150

(1)

Organizational Embeddedness

151

(4)

Biographical Work

155

(27)

Biography as Work

155

(7)

Biographical Work Settings

162

(6)

The Use of Expertise

168

(3)

Images and Audiences

171

(4)

Interviewing as Biographical Work

175

(5)

Biography and Power

180

(2)

Re-envisioning the Life Course

182

(32)

Interpretive Control

185

(7)

The Deprivatization of Experience

192

(7)

Narrative Malleability

199

(6)

Private Lives, Public Interpretations

205

(4)

Agency, Diversity, and the Moral Order

209

(1)

The Utility of the Life Course

210

(4)

References

214

(11)

Author Index

225

(3)

Subject Index

228

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