scholarly journals Female Headship and Life History Research: Using Emotional Turning Points

2016 ◽  
Vol 07 (18) ◽  
pp. 2774-2790 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Cliffe
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Turning Points ◽  
Female Headship

scholarly journals Autobiographical turning points: Remembering and forgetting

Literator ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Sheringham
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Turning Points ◽  
The Real ◽  
Causative Agents

The autobiographical process involves not just reporting on past events, reconstructing one’s life history, but replaying events in different voices and modes. It may be that the autobiographer is motivated by the desire to impose one version of her or his life and to scotch the others. Even then, however, other versions, the ones under erasure, often show through the fabric – the fabrication – and we detect their traces in the turns of the rhetoric. Thus, in autobiography, the real agenda is often underneath, either because a less official motive lurks behind the manifest ones or because what really drives the project of selfscrutiny is something only progressively revealed in the process of writing. This issue takes into consideration the structuring implications of turning points in the account of a life and the roles of the converse forces of forgetting and subjective destabilisation. There are two ways of looking at turning points: either as causative agents of order and coherence or as metaphors – as provisional, semi-fictional, forensic, cognitive instruments. In the latter case, they belong to an active, performative, conjectural, self-revising process, and they complement a version of autobiographical memory that involves a constant interplay of remembering and forgetting.

Finding meaning through musical growth: Life histories of visually impaired musicians

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 405-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hye Young Park
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Turning Points ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Professional Musicians ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Professional Musician ◽  
Musical Growth ◽  
And Performance

The purpose of this study is to examine in depth the lives of visually impaired professional musicians via the life history method. The researcher conducted in-depth interviews with eight visually impaired professional musicians. The data analysis considered three facets of life history proposed by Mandelbaum: dimensions, turning points, and adaptations. The dimensions of life (families, schools, private music teachers, and performance groups) were analysed first. The turning points of life involve accepting and overcoming an impairment and choosing to major in music. Adaptations to life involve persevering in a harsh social environment, living as an impaired musician, aspiring to a successful career as a professional musician, and learning from vigorous musical activities. Most participants suggested that families and performance groups are the most important dimensions of their lives. With respect to turning points, choosing to major in music has enabled the participants to accept and overcome the difficulties associated with being visually impaired. Through adaptation, the participants appear to have found their value, role, and meaning both as members of society and as professional musicians. This implies both the importance of expanding performing opportunities for visually impaired musicians and the importance of acknowledging their professional activities, affording visually impaired musicians better livelihoods by offering them more fulfilling roles in the field of music along with significant, long-term public support.

Interrelationships of factors of social development are more complex than Life History Theory predicts

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boris Kotchoubey
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Life History Theory ◽  
Strong Correlations ◽  
Behavioral Features

Abstract Life History Theory (LHT) predicts a monotonous relationship between affluence and the rate of innovations and strong correlations within a cluster of behavioral features. Although both predictions can be true in specific cases, they are incorrect in general. Therefore, the author's explanations may be right, but they do not prove LHT and cannot be generalized to other apparently similar processes.

Life history of Spodoptera exigua (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) on various host plants

2006 ◽  
Vol 96 (6) ◽  
pp. 613-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.A. Azidah ◽  
M. Sofian-Azirun
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Host Plants ◽  
Spodoptera Exigua ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lepidoptera Noctuidae

Life-history calendar

1987 ◽  
pp. 157-157
Keyword(s):  
Life History

Global Turning Points

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauro F. Guillen ◽  
Emilio Ontiveros
Keyword(s):  
Turning Points
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