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This article puts forward the notion of a social career in order to aid analysis of the life stories of two groups of elderly men and women, one very socially involved with the surrounding community and the other socially isolated from it, both living in the `constructed community' of an ex-mining town in County Durham. It includes a comparison between the social career and the life course approach and a discussion of continuities and discontinuities in social careers, the latter being identified as the consequence of `career breaks'.