Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 10:40:19 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Re: biography as social history


Hi Randi,
What you are doing in the history department is also often a part of 
the curriculum for the training of personnel officers, at least in 
the Netherlands. They are supposed to use that later as one of the 
inputs for career development programs. The literature used is 
usually written in Dutch, but if you call trainers in your 
neighbourhoud they will probably have a lot of good books there.
Still I have some articles in English where you will find more 
references too:
- Schuman and Scott, Generations and collective memories,
  American Sociological Review, 54, pp. 359-381;
- Kohli, The world we forgot: a historical review of the life course,
  in: Marshall, The social psychology of aging, Sage, London, 1986;
- Held, Institutionalization and deinstitutionalization of the life 
  course, in: Human Development, 29, pp. 157-162.
  
I hope this will help you,
Henk Voets
      



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Dr.Henk J.L. Voets
Technical University Delft
Kanaalweg 2 B
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The Netherlands
tel. 31.15.2786345
fax  31.15.2783956
e-mail  henk.voets-AT-wtm.tudelft.nl
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