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This open access book explores an approach that connects individual and societal processes throughout history and shifting trends in sociological perspectives, influenced by C. Wright Mills' theories of time and temporality. It traces its origins from American pragmatist thought and Chicago qualitative sociology in the early 20th century to the revival of biographical research in European and American sociology during the 1970s. The book shows empirical studies from this vibrant research approach can bridge methodological gaps between qualitative and quantitative biographical studies, applicable to various topics like class, gender, ethnicity, and intergenerational dimensions.

Intro -- SOCIOLOGY RESEARCHERBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHESAND RESEARCH SUMMARIES -- SOCIOLOGY RESEARCHERBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHESAND RESEARCH SUMMARIES -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PART 1 - RESEARCH BIOGRAPHIES -- Chapter 1BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH - SOCIOLOGY RESEARCH -- Affiliation: -- Address: -- Education: -- Research and Professional Experience: -- Professional Appointments: -- Honors: -- Publications Last 3 Years -- Chapter 2BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH - SOCIOLOGY RESEARCH -- Affiliation: -- Address: -- Date of Birth: -- Education: -- Research and Professional Experience: -- Professional Appointments: -- Honors: -- Publications Last 3 Years: -- Chapter 3BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH - SOCIOLOGY RESEARCH -- Affiliation: -- Address: -- Date of Birth: -- Education: -- Research and Professional Experience: -- Honors and Professional Appointments: -- Publications Last 3 Years: -- Chapter 4BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH - SOCIOLOGY RESEARCH -- Affiliation: -- Address: -- Date of Birth: -- Education: -- Professional Appointments: -- Publications Last 3 Years: -- Books -- Articles: -- 2007 -- 2008 -- 2009: -- 2010 -- Chapter 5BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH - SOCIOLOGY RESEARCH -- Affiliation: -- Address: -- Date of Birth -- Education: -- Research and Professional Experience: -- Honors: -- Publications Last 3 Years: -- Chapter 6BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH - SOCIOLOGY RESEARCH -- Affiliation: -- Address: -- Date of Birth: -- Education: -- Research and Professional Experience: -- Professional Appointments: -- Honors: -- Publications Last 3 Years: -- Chapter 7BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH - SOCIOLOGY RESEARCH -- Affiliation: -- Contact Information -- Education: -- Research and Professional Experience: -- Professional Appointments: -- Chapter 8BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH - SOCIOLOGY RESEARCH -- Affiliation: -- Address: -- Date of Birth: -- Education: -- Research and Professional Experience: -- Professional Appointments: -- Honors

"Rooted in a long and diverse genealogy, biographical approaches have developed from a focus upon a single story, a 'life story' and personal documents (e.g. diaries), to encompass (more routinely) autobiographical secondary and archival research and analysis--as well as multi-media, arts based creative multi-sensory methods. Biographical Research and practices as part of human understanding helps people to make sense of what has been and what is happening in their lives, cultures, communities and societies.Advances in Biographical Methods: Creative Applications takes up these themes: theorising, doing and applying current advances in biographical methods. It demonstrates the momentum with which they areas are developing as a field of scholarship, especially in relation to creative innovations and applications, such as in new forms of interview and other practices, and debates on its interlinking with art, performance and digital methods"--

Intro -- Part I -- Researcher Biographical Sketches -- Ines Alberico -- O. Roger Anderson -- Oluwayomi Kayode Babatunde -- Vanessa Becker -- Eliete Regina Bertazzo Canterle -- Luciana de souza Cardoso -- Ingrid Ester Alvial Chandía -- Luciane Oliveira Crossetti -- Wayne Iwan Lee Davies -- Tiffany Sacra Garcia -- Antonio García-Olivares -- Zacharias Ioannou -- Alexander Ivlev -- Manjurul Karim -- Lina Nafeh Kassir -- Nikolay Khitrov -- Jing Li -- Blas Lotina-Hennsen -- Peter Wilhelm Walter Lurz -- David Motta Marques -- Roland H. Müller -- Nina Novikova -- Dyah Retno Panuju -- David Pepper -- Apostolos Pesiridis -- Lúcia Ribeiro Rodrigues -- Vladimir V. Shamov -- Ng Haig They -- Bambang Hendro Trisasongko -- Antonio Turiel -- Lednyov Andrey Victorovich -- Natalyia Volkova -- Alexey Vyshivkin -- Yong-Liang Yang -- Mario Miki-Yoshida -- Andrea Young -- Part II -- Environmental and Agricultural Research Summaries -- Drought and Nutritional Stresses in Plant: Alleviating Role of Rhizospheric Microorganisms -- Research Summary -- NADP-Dependent Enzymes and Abiotic Stress -- Research Summary -- Water-Deficit Stress Signal Transduction Pathways in Plants: From Sensing to Response -- Research Summary -- Abiotic Stress Response in Plants: Integrative Genetic Pathways and Overlapping Reactions between Abiotic and Biotic Stress Responses -- Research Summary -- Circadian Regulation of Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Caenorhabditis elegans -- Research Summary -- Abiotic Stress Responses in Plants -- Research Summary -- Plant Cortical Microtubules and Abiotic Stress Signals -- Research Summary -- Advances in Cleaner Production -- in the United States -- Research Summary -- A Center for Cleaner Production to Contribute to the Socio-Environmental Development of the Province of Cienfuegos -- Research Summary -- Promotion of Cleaner Production.

Since the beginning of the economic crisis of 2008, Spain, like other southern European countries, has witnessed a mass departure of mostly young people looking for opportunities abroad. Leaving Spain is based on 58 autobiographical narrative interviews with recent Spanish migrants who went to the UK and Germany, and sometimes returned. By presenting a combination of in-depth case studies and comparative analyses, the author demonstrates the potential of biographical research and narrative analysis in studying contemporary Europe, including its overlapping crises. The scope of the sociological study is not limited to examining how those who left Spain experienced single phases of their migration. Instead, it focuses on the significance of migration projects in the context of their life histories and how they make sense of these experiences in retrospect.

This book will not only be of great interest to social scientists and students in different disciplines and interdisciplinary studies such as sociology, anthropology, human geography, European studies, education, and social work, but also to professionals, European and national policy makers, and those interested in learning more about migrants' experiences, perspectives, and (often invisible) contributions.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I -- Researcher Biographical Sketches -- Chapter 1 -- Ramesh Kaipa, PhD -- Chapter 2 -- Katri Lamesoo -- Chapter 3 -- Mélanie Levasseur -- Chapter 4 -- Natalia López-Mosquera García -- Chapter 5 -- Donna C. Lougheed -- Chapter 6 -- Fernanda Cristina Marquetti -- Chapter 7 -- Donna Martin -- Chapter 8 -- Daniel Naud -- Chapter 9 -- Elite Olshtain, Professor Emeritus -- Chapter 10 -- Valentina Petrova -- Chapter 11 -- Christopher J. Przemieniecki -- Chapter 12 -- Michelle Quist -- Chapter 13 -- Maria Francisca Rebocho -- Chapter 14 -- Priscila de Morais Sato -- Chapter 15 -- Martine Simard -- Chapter 16 -- Sandra Sovilj-Nikić -- Chapter 17 -- Roha Thomas -- Chapter 18 -- Marcel Diego Tonini -- Chapter 19 -- Reese Y. W. Tou -- Chapter 20 -- Maria Elena Villar -- Chapter 21 -- Nicole H. Weiss -- Chapter 22 -- Cirecie West-Olatunji, PhD -- Chapter 23 -- Melvin L. Williams, PhD -- Part II -- Research Summaries -- Chapter 24 -- Coping Strategies and Cognitive Processes Related to Peer Victimization and the Role of Intervention Programs# -- Research Summary -- Chapter 25 -- Bullying among Male Athletes: A Contextual Examination# -- Research Summary -- Chapter 26 -- Cyberbullying# -- Research Summary -- Chapter 27 -- Bullying Interventions# -- Research Summary -- Chapter 28 -- Bullying among Health Care Providers# -- Research Summary -- Chapter 29 -- Cyberbullying: Bullying Gone Digital# -- Research Summary -- Chapter 30 -- Bullying, Personal Self-Regulation, Resilience, Coping Strategies and Engagement-Burnout: Implications for an Intervention with University Students# -- Research Summary -- Chapter 31 -- Bullying and Moral Reasoning: The Influence of Life Values and Culture on Italian Teenagers' Self-Assertion# -- Research Summary -- Chapter 32

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I -- Researcher Biographical Sketches -- Chapter 1 -- Rubens de Camargo Ferreira Adorno -- Chapter 2 -- Mercedes Alcañiz -- Chapter 3 -- Michael E. Antonio -- Chapter 4 -- Jennifer Lynn Bryan -- Chapter 5 -- Maritza Concha -- Chapter 6 -- David Cosio, PhD -- Chapter 7 -- Amanda H. Costello, PhD -- Chapter 8 -- Paweł Ćwikła -- Chapter 9 -- Oana Alexandra David -- Chapter 10 -- Brittany Davis, PhD -- Chapter 11 -- Laila El Amrani -- Chapter 12 -- Eduardo Fonseca Pedrero -- Chapter 13 -- Dawn W. Foster -- Chapter 14 -- Anita Gibbs -- Chapter 15 -- Pnina Golan-Cook, PhD -- Chapter 16 -- Keith Goldstein -- Chapter 17 -- Andrea Gutiérrez García -- Chapter 18 -- Junaid Hassim -- Chapter 19 -- Hong Ngoc Truong -- Chapter 20 -- Roxanne M Hughes -- Chapter 21 -- Kwang-Kuo Hwang -- Chapter 22 -- Bob Johnson -- Part II -- Research Summaries -- Chapter 23 -- Understanding Elderly Poverty in the United States: Towards Informed Policy# -- Research Summary -- Chapter 24 -- The Development and Reforms of the Social Security System in Taiwan: Issues, Challenges and Perspectives# -- Research Summary -- Chapter 25 -- Social Security Systems in Eastern and Southern Africa: Issues, Challenges and Prospects# -- Research Summary -- Chapter 26 -- Social Security at a Crossroads on Social Security's Ability to Cope with Future Challenges# -- Research Summary -- Chapter 27 -- The Role of Fathers during Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes# -- Research Summary -- Chapter 28 -- African American Families in Kinship Care# -- Research Summary -- Chapter 29 -- Introducing Strengths of African American Families into the Therapy Setting# -- Research Summary -- Chapter 30 -- Parental Socialization in Response to Racism: Implications for Family Health# -- Research Summary -- Chapter 31

Franco Ferrarotti hopes to lead sociologists away from overly reductionistic, technical measurement of their subjects_an approach that has increasingly been problematized by the natural sciences_toward a rediscovery of (auto)biographical materials and the value of the individual

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I -- Researcher Biographical Sketches -- Chapter 1 -- Ilmutdin M. Abdulagatov -- Chapter 2 -- Alicia M. Aguinaldo -- Chapter 3 -- Luis Aldámiz-Echevarría -- Chapter 4 -- Jaegler Anicia -- Chapter 5 -- Denilson da Silva Bezerra -- Chapter 6 -- Anne H. Bower -- Chapter 7 -- Rishi R. Burlakoti -- Chapter 8 -- Maurílio De Souza Cazarim -- Chapter 9 -- Carla Trindade Costa -- Chapter 10 -- Ana Lea Cukierman -- Chapter 11 -- Diana R. Cundell -- Chapter 12 -- Jelena Cvejic -- Chapter 13 -- María Celina Godoy -- Chapter 14 -- Rit Bahadur Gurung -- Chapter 15 -- Wojciech Halicki -- Chapter 16 -- Mohammad K. Hossain, PhD# -- Chapter 17 -- Tsuyoshi Imai -- Part II -- Research Summaries -- Chapter 18 -- The Influence of the Heterogeneity, Physicochemical and Structural Properties on the Recalcitrance and Conversion of Sugarcane Bagasse# -- Research Summary -- Chapter 19 -- Sugarcane Crop Management in Brazil: Impact on Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics# -- Research Summary -- Chapter 20 -- Economic Impact Assessment of Silting-Up and Erosion Processes: How Spatial Dynamic Models Coupled with Environmental Valuation Models Can Contribute to Sustainable Practices in Sugarcane Farming# -- Research Summary -- Chapter 21 -- Environmental Implications of Using Waste from Sugarcane Industry in Agriculture# -- Research Summary -- Chapter 22 -- Valorization of Sugarcane Bagasse Ash Waste to Produce Sustainable Clay-Based Ceramics: A Brief Review# -- Research Summary -- Chapter 23 -- Non-Linear Anisotropic Diffusion for Sugarcane Contour Extraction on Landsat - TM# -- Research Summary -- Chapter 24 -- Carbohydrate of Sugarcane Bagasse: Promising Biomass of Bioethanol# -- Research Summary -- Chapter 25

The past fifty years have seen far-reaching changes in Palestinian society in the West Bank. The Israeli occupation which began in 1967, the political mobilization of the 1970s and 1980s, and the so-called peace process in the 1990s went together with deep social transformations, which not only changed the dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but also altered the figurations and conflict lines between different social groups within Palestinian society. This book is a sociological study of these transformation processes, based on a combination of Norbert Elias' figurational sociology, social-constructivist biographical research, and Karl Mannheim's sociology of knowledge and generational sociology. In addition to conflicts and tensions between inhabitants of the old refugee camps and the (new) urban middle class in the West Bank, the author focuses in particular on a latent Palestinian generational conflict: it is clear that members of the 'Oslo Generation' – meaning those who grew up during the Oslo peace process in the 1990s – have fewer power and life chances, and in particular fewer opportunities for meaning, than their predecessors in the generation of fighters and activists of the 1970s and 1980s.