Life Course Case Study
Title: Life Course Case Study
Category: /Social Sciences/Sociology
Details: Words: 3316 | Pages: 12 (approximately 235 words/page)
Life Course Case Study
Category: /Social Sciences/Sociology
Details: Words: 3316 | Pages: 12 (approximately 235 words/page)
Introduction
In this assignment I conduct a life course case study of a seventy-four year old man, Mr. Gambina, in order to find out whether structure or agency has been most influential throughout his life. The agent is the person who actually performs the action, while structure refers to the main structures in society that influence the way the agents act. Most structuralists share a conviction that individual human beings function solely as elements of
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the life course of Mr. Gambina?' is indisputable. Structure has been the major influence in his life story, and still remains so.
References
Richard T. Schaefer, Sociology, seventh edition, McGraw-Hill, 2001
C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination, 1959
Janet Z. Giele and Glen H. Elder, Jr., Methods of Life Course Research
Roger D. Wimmer and Joseph R. Dominick, Mass Media Research, An Introduction, Wadsworth, 1994
Internet sources
http://www.socialscience.eku.edu/Ant/BANKS/CWMILLS_HT2.htm