Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. Notes on contributors iv
4. Introduction:Advancing the dialogue on turning points 1
5. Unpacking biographical narratives: investigating stories of artistic careers in Northern Jutland, Denmark 9
6. Turning points in the life course: a narrative concept in professional bifurcations 41
7. Conjugal separation and immigration in the life course of immigrant single mothers in Québec 65
8. Migration biography and ethnic identity: on the discontinuity of biographical experience and how turning points affect the ethnicisation of identity 93
9. Biographical structuring through a critical life event: parental loss during childhood 125
10. Decisive turning points in life trajectories of violence among young men in the barrios of Caracas: the initiation and biographical reconversion to non-violent lifestyles 143
11. The turning points of the single life course in Budapest, Hungary 167
12. Complicating actions and complicated lives: raising questions about narrative theory through an exploration of lesbian lives 187
13. Religious conversion as a biographical turn/ing: the case of Orthodox believers in contemporary Russia 207
14. Conclusion: theorising turning points and decoding narratives 227
15. Index 261