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

by Gerald Handel

Book Overview

Making a Life in Yorkville, based on the verbatim, unedited life-course narrative of an urban, working-class, middle-aged man, expands our understanding of the human life course beyond the currently dominant approaches. It presents a comprehensive and rounded life-course narrative of an ordinary man through a systematic analysis. By utilizing some established concepts and by formulating some new concepts, particularly relating childhood...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313313075
• ISBN13: 9780313313073
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.6"