Tabla de Contenidos: “…Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1: Life Course Studies and Biographical Research: Exploring the Individual-Society Relationship -- Introduction -- Micro-macro Distinctions -- Agency and Structure in General Sociological Theory -- Gendered Notions of Agency -- Structure-Agency/Biography-History -- Summary -- Overview of Chapters -- References -- 2: The Origins of Biographical and Life Course Research -- Introduction -- George Herbert Mead and the Processual Self -- Jane Addams and Women’s Methodological Innovations -- William Isaac Thomas at Chicago -- The Polish Peasant in Europe and America -- Appraisal Proceedings for The Polish Peasant -- Herbert Blumer: From Social Behaviourism to Symbolic Interactionism -- C.Wright Mills: The History-Biography Dynamic -- Glen Elder: A Contextualist Life Course Perspective -- Summary -- References -- 3: The Revival of Biographical Research in Europe and America -- Introduction -- ‘A Continental View’: Revival of Biographical Research in Europe -- The Oral History Legacy: The United Kingdom -- Women’s Studies’ Contributions: Scandinavia -- The Contextualist Approach: Life Course Studies in America -- Summary…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The boy from Adrian (1893-1912) -- Chicago/Detroit (1913-1916) -- Hollywood (1916-1917) -- Manhattan (1917-1919) -- From Dante to Gershwin (1919-1922) -- Prelude to a miracle (1923-1924) -- Hollywood/Paris (1925) -- Colossal in scale, appalling in complexity (1926-1935) -- Goods into roses (1920s) -- Skyscrapers/Streamlining (1931-1933) -- The democratization of design (1930s) -- What geniuses worry about (1930s) -- Too good to succeed: the Chrysler Airflow (1933-1937) -- Fickle mistress (1929-1937) -- Birth of a classic, death of a beauty (January 1938) -- Too goddamned Waldorf Astoria: the exhibit that nearly wasn't (1936-1940) -- Crystal Lassies, or, The future will be topless (1938-1940) -- Elephants in tutus (1940-1942) -- "...that stinking dirty, filthy piece about me in the New Yorker" (1941) -- All the wonders that would be (1940-1945) -- Quantity trumps quality (1945-1950) -- Prodigal daughter (1950s) -- Edith (1950-1958) -- Epilogue…”

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