{"product_id":"making-a-life-in-yorkville-gerald-handel-9780313313073","title":"Making a Life in Yorkville: Experience and Meaning in the Life-Course Narrative of an Urban Working-Class Man","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaking a Life in Yorkville\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 to adulthood and concepts related to how time is interpreted, Handel offers an advance both in methodology and in the theoretical approach to the study of the life course. Theoretically, the work falls broadly within the symbolic interactionist framework of sociological and social psychological thought. Methodologically, it argues for the careful study of the lives of ordinary people, people who are not celebrities or exotics, thus people who have no claim on public attention. This important new work will be a welcome addition to the literature on life course studies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first part of the book explores the idea of the life course in its various contexts: the community, the historical, the narrative, and the theoretical. The second part introduces and reproduces verbatim the life history of Tony Santangelo, an ordinary, working-class man. The third part discusses and analyzes the life history presented. Because most life histories are edited, this book, unique in its exact reproduction of the subject's narrative, makes it possible for the reader to use the information in the life history in ways different from Handel's use.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gerald Handel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0313313075\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780313313073\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Praeger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/30\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.58h x 6.34w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2000 pg. 113","brand":"Gerald Handel","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47425008500991,"sku":"9780313313073","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_be51e36d-ed5e-49e4-8c53-1d9dded47fbd.jpg?v=1761536371","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/making-a-life-in-yorkville-gerald-handel-9780313313073","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}