scholarly journals Book Review Symposium: A Companion to Life Course Studies: the social and historical context of the British birth cohort studies

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Cohort Studies ◽  
Birth Cohort ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Review Symposium ◽  
The Social ◽  
Life Course Studies

scholarly journals Recomposing persons: Scavenging and storytelling in a birth cohort archive

2021 ◽  
pp. 095269512199539
Author(s):  
Penny Tinkler ◽  
Resto Cruz ◽  
Laura Fenton
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Cohort Studies ◽  
Birth Cohort ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Relational Embeddedness ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Over Time

Birth cohort studies can be used not only to generate population-level quantitative data, but also to recompose persons. The crux is how we understand data and persons. Recomposition entails scavenging for various (including unrecognised) data. It foregrounds the perspective and subjectivity of survey participants, but without forgetting the partiality and incompleteness of the accounts that it may generate. Although interested in the singularity of individuals, it attends to the historical and relational embeddedness of personhood. It examines the multiple and complex temporalities that suffuse people’s lives, hence departing from linear notions of the life course. It implies involvement, as well as reflexivity, on the part of researchers. It embraces the heterogeneity and transformations over time of scientific archives and the interpretive possibilities, as well as incompleteness, of birth cohort studies data. Interested in the unfolding of lives over time, it also shines light on meaningful biographical moments.

Critical Analyses of the Social Theories of Talcott Parsons: A Book Review Symposium

1962 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 236
Author(s):  
N. S. Timasheff ◽  
Sister Marie Augusta Neal ◽  
Raymond H. Potvin ◽  
Paul J. Reiss ◽  
Max Black
Keyword(s):  
Review Symposium ◽  
Talcott Parsons ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Theories
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