RESTORYING THE LIVES OF FAMOUS INDIVIDUALS: A NARRATIVE INQUIRY

The Late Life Success Theory assumes that people go through a process of development, wherein these certain feats highlight the different ages. These highlights form the stages that people go through similarly as they pass through life but the experience behind is unique to each of them. This study aimed to create a list of life stages people go through based on their individual perception of development and achievement so as to allow for identification of stages towards a satisfying late life. This study used narrative research design where the researcher gathered documents about the life story of famous individuals who are respected and recognized for their contribution in their various fields through their published biographies. The biography included the experiences of the subject beyond 60 years old. The researcher then recorded their life experiences and collected information about the background of these stories. Thereafter, the stories were analyzed. The researchers then “restorying” them into a context that makes sense. The following stages have been identified: Stage1-Overcoming a Misfortune Beginning Life; Stage 2-Teenage as the Constructive Passage to Adult Life; Stage 3-Becoming Part of the Adult World; Stage 4-Expanding Influence and Commitment; Stage 5-Leaving a Legacy. Looking into the lives of famous individuals, a certain pattern of similar experiences has been created. They went through a process of development towards the end of life wherein there are certain challenges which highlighted the different stages. These are to be experienced and faced positively. Once successfully handled, these are considered milestones of success which lead towards the full exploration and understanding of the human lives.

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Habitat association of plaice, sole, and lemon sole in the English Channel

ICES Journal of Marine Science ◽

10.1016/j.icesjms.2006.03.011 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 63 (5) ◽

pp. 912-927 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Hilmar Hinz ◽

Melanie Bergmann ◽

Richard Shucksmith ◽

Michel J. Kaiser ◽

Stuart I. Rogers

Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

Prey Availability ◽

Spatial Scales ◽

Life Stage ◽

Adult Life ◽

Benthic Habitat ◽

Physical Parameters ◽

Sampling Scale ◽

The Subject ◽

The 19Th Century

Abstract Flatfish have been the subject of scientific research since the beginning of the 19th century, but information on specific habitat requirements of adult life stages is incomplete. This study investigates the association between benthic habitat and the adult life stage of three flatfish species (plaice, sole, and lemon sole). Data from groundfish surveys spanning nine years were used to identify three distinct site groups: sites where a species was consistently abundant, sites of variable or low abundance, and sites at which no fish were caught. We hypothesize that these three site groups should represent a gradient in habitat suitability from highly suitable to unsuitable. Habitat parameters for each site group and species are described and analysed. Besides large-scale physical parameters, the importance of structuring epifauna and prey availability was investigated. Plaice and sole showed similar trends for most abiotic parameters, whereas lemon sole was found over distinctly different habitats. Sediment associations differed between the three species. No clear association was found between flatfish abundance, structuring epifauna, and prey availability within this study. Contradictory results between prey abundance assessed by grab samples and the nutritive state of plaice suggested that the sampling scale used might have been inappropriate to determine prey availability accurately. Plaice appear to sample prey more effectively at the appropriate spatial scales, so the nutritive state of the fish might be a more reliable indicator for prey availability and thus habitat quality.

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Towards a multimethodological approach to identification of funds of identity, small stories and master narratives

Narrative Inquiry ◽

10.1075/ni.22.1.12est ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 173-180 ◽

Cited By ~ 28

Author(s):

Moisès Esteban-Guitart

Keyword(s):

Life Story ◽

Life Experiences ◽

Methodological Approach ◽

Second Person ◽

The Social ◽

Historical Origin ◽

The Subject ◽

Small Stories ◽

The Relationship ◽

Depth Interviews

The narrative turn in social and human sciences has led us to consider identity as a narrative phenomenon. We can classify most of the approaches that have been developed by the emphasis they put on the “subject” in the analysis. For some, the subject is the first person singular, who puts into order and constructs an internalized life story so as to give purpose and coherence to different life experiences. For others, the emphasis is on the relationship between the first and second person, the I-you, in conversational situations located in time and space. Still others argue that narratives — repertoires of behaviour and identity — are shared artefacts, of historical origin and their content is social, political and cultural (i.e., “we” and “they”). However, in all these approaches there is agreement that narratives of identity are cultural products, inseparable from the social, institutional, geographic and cultural forces which comprise what I call funds of identity. The aim of this article is to suggest the need to adopt a qualitative multi-methodological approach aimed at studying these funds of identity, thus complementing the general use of in-depth interviews.

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Childhood and Adult Life Experiences as Correlates of Anomie

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e438152008-328 ◽

1967 ◽

Author(s):

Gunars Reimanis

Keyword(s):

Life Experiences ◽

Adult Life

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Fakir Baykurt’un Almanya öykülerinde Türk göçmen çocukları

GÖÇ DERGİSİ ◽

10.33182/gd.v3i1.553 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 5-28

Author(s):

Efnan Dervişoğlu

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Migrant Workers ◽

Life Experiences ◽

Main Theme ◽

Social Dimensions ◽

Home Life ◽

Literary Forms ◽

The Social ◽

The Subject ◽

Life Education

Almanya’ya işçi göçü, neden ve sonuçları, sosyal boyutlarıyla ele alınmış; göç ve devamındaki süreçte yaşanan sorunlar, konunun uzmanlarınca dile getirilmiştir. Fakir Baykurt’un Almanya öyküleri, sunduğu gerçekler açısından, sosyal bilimlerin ortaya koyduğu verilerle bağdaşan edebiyat ürünleri arasındadır. Yirmi yılını geçirdiği Almanya’da, göçmen işçilerle ve aileleriyle birlikte olup işçi çocuklarının eğitimine yönelik çalışmalarda bulunan yazarın gözlem ve deneyimlerinin ürünü olan bu öyküler, kaynağını yaşanmışlıktan alır; çalışmanın ilk kısmında, Fakir Baykurt’un yaşamına ve Almanya yıllarına dair bilgi verilmesi, bununla ilişkilidir. Öykülere yansıyan çocuk yaşamı ise çalışmanın asıl konusunu oluşturmaktadır. “Ev ve aile yaşamı”, “Eğitim yaşamı ve sorunları”, “Sosyal çevre, arkadaşlık ilişkileri ve Türk-Alman ayrılığı” ile “İki kültür arasında” alt başlıklarında, Türkiye’den göç eden işçi ailelerinde yetişen çocukların Almanya’daki yaşamları, karşılaştıkları sorunlar, öykülerin sunduğu veriler ışığında değerlendirilmiş; örneklemeye gidilmiştir. Bu öyküler, edebiyatın toplumsal gerçekleri en iyi yansıtan sanat olduğu görüşünü doğrular niteliktedir ve sosyolojik değerlendirmelere açıktır. ENGLISH ABSTRACTMigration and Children in Fakir Baykurt’s stories from GermanyThe migration of workers to Germany has been taken up with its causes, consequences and social dimensions; the migration and the problems encountered in subsequent phases have been stated by experts in the subject. Fakir Baykurt’s stories from Germany, regarding the reality they represent, are among the literary forms that coincide with the facts supplied by social sciences. These stories take their sources from true life experiences as the products of observations and experiences with migrant workers and their families in Germany where the writer has passed twenty years of his life and worked for the education of the worker’s children; therefore information related to Fakir Baykurt’s life and his years in Germany are provided in the first part of the study. The life of children reflected in the stories constitutes the main theme of the study. Under the subtitles of “Family and Home Life”, “Education Life and related issues”, “Social environment, friendships and Turkish-German disparity” and “Amidst two cultures”, the lives in Germany of children who have been raised in working class families and who have immigrated from Turkey are evaluated under the light of facts provided by the stories and examples are given. These stories appear to confirm that literature is an art that reflects the social reality and is open to sociological assessments.KEYWORDS: Fakir Baykurt; Germany; labor migration; child; story

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Trauma Caused by Injury or Abuse in Late Life: Experiences, Impacts, and the Federal Response

NAM Perspectives ◽

10.31478/201901a ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Vijeth Iyengar ◽

Greg Link ◽

Phillip W. Beatty ◽

Madeleine Boel ◽

Cailin Crockett ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Life Experiences ◽

Late Life ◽

Federal Response

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Kant, Marginal Cases, and Moral Standing

10.1093/oso/9780198753858.003.0005 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Christine M. Korsgaard

Keyword(s):

Life Stage ◽

The Other ◽

Moral Standing ◽

Human Beings ◽

Identity Problem ◽

The Subject ◽

The Dead ◽

Moral Difference

According to the marginal cases argument, there is no property that might justify making a moral difference between human beings and the other animals that is both uniquely and universally human. It is therefore “speciesist” to treat human beings differently just because we are human beings. While not challenging the conclusion, this chapter argues that the marginal cases argument is metaphysically misguided. It ignores the differences between a life stage and a kind, and between lacking a property and having it in a defective form. The chapter then argues for a view of moral standing that attributes it to the subject of a life conceived as an atemporal being, and shows how this view can resolve some familiar puzzles such as how death can be a loss to the person who has died, how we can wrong the dead, the “procreation asymmetry,” and the “non-identity problem.”

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The Life Span Development of Generativity

The Oxford Handbook of Moral Development ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190676049.013.20 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 365-384

Author(s):

Michael W. Pratt ◽

M. Kyle Matsuba ◽

Heather L. Lawford ◽

Feliciano Villar

Keyword(s):

Life Span ◽

Life Story ◽

Family Background ◽

Personality Development ◽

Adult Life ◽

Stage Model ◽

Life Domains ◽

Adult Life Span ◽

Life Span Development ◽

Cultural Variations

This chapter addresses the development of generativity, Erikson’s conception of the midlife strength in his eight-stage model of personality development. Following Erikson, the authors define generativity as care for next generations and set it in the context of both personality theory and life span development. Specifically, the authors draw on the framework of McAdams that characterizes personality as composed of three sequentially developing levels: actions, goals/motives, and the narrative life story (a mature form of narrative that provides the self with a sense of meaning and identity). The authors then review research on generativity as expressed from adolescence to later adulthood, which indicates that it is a relevant construct across this entire period in a variety of life domains. They also consider factors influencing generativity levels, including family background and cultural variations. Throughout the chapter, the authors consider the connections of generativity to morality across different facets of personality and stages of the adult life span.

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The impact of neighborhood walkability on walking: Does it differ across adult life stage and does neighborhood buffer size matter?

Health & Place ◽

10.1016/j.healthplace.2013.10.005 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 25 ◽

pp. 43-46 ◽

Cited By ~ 78

Author(s):

Karen Villanueva ◽

Matthew Knuiman ◽

Andrea Nathan ◽

Billie Giles-Corti ◽

Hayley Christian ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Life Stage ◽

Adult Life ◽

Buffer Size ◽

Neighborhood Walkability ◽

Size Matter ◽

The Impact

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Direct Legislation: Some Implications of Open Housing Referenda

American Political Science Review ◽

10.2307/1955617 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 64 (1) ◽

pp. 124-137 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Howard D. Hamilton

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Direct Democracy ◽

The United States ◽

World War ◽

American Government ◽

The Subject ◽

Pass Through ◽

Direct Legislation ◽

Direct Government ◽

Open Housing

Any middle-aged member of the political science guild in a retrospective mood might ponder a question: “What ever happened to direct democracy?” In our halcyon student days the textbooks discussed the direct democracy trinity—initiative, referendum, and recall—described their mechanics and variations, explained their origin in the Progressive Era, told us that the United States, Australia, and Switzerland were leading practitioners of direct democracy, cited a few eccentric referenda, gave the standard pro and con arguments, and essayed some judgments of the relative merits of direct and representative democracy. Latter day collegians may pass through the portals innocent of the existence of the institutions of direct government. Half of the American government texts never mention the subject; the others allocate a paragraph or a page for a casual mention or a barebones explanation of the mechanics.A similar trend has occurred in the literature. Before 1921, every volume of this Review had items on the referendum, five in one volume. Subsequently there have been only seven articles, all but two prior to World War II. “The Initiative and Referendum in Graustark” has ceased to be a fashionable dissertation topic, only four in the last thirty years. All but two of the published monographs antedate World War II.

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