Exemplary Stories: On the Uses of Biography in Recent Sociology
In: Thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology, Heft 97, S. 115-129
ISSN: 1461-7455, 0725-5136
A review essay on books by (1) Alan Sica [Ed] and Stephen Turner [Ed], The Disobedient Generation: Social Theorists in the Sixties (University of Chicago, 2005); (2) Mathieu Deflem [Ed], Sociologists in a Global Age: Biographical Perspectives (Ashgate, 2007) & (3) Anthony Elliot and Charles Lemert, The New Individualism: The Emotional Costs of Globalization (Routledge, 2006).