21.11.2019

The magazine Análise Social awarded the Special Jury Prize 2018 to Ana Caetano, researcher at CIES-Iscte, author of the article "The lexicon of biographical crises".

 

The Editorial Board of Análise Social, a journal of the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, establishes the Análise Social Award every year, aimed at rewarding the best article/study published in the pages of the journal the year before the award is given. At the same time, the Jury's Special Award is created to reward the best article/study by one or more young researchers, also published in the pages of the journal the year before the award is given.

 

The awards ceremony took place on November 21st at the ICS-ULisboa

Learn more about the 2018 Social Analysis Awards here.

 

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"The lexicon of biographical crises"

Social Analysis, 226, LIII (1st), 2018, pp.88-111.

 

Abstract

The central objective of this article is to discuss and present a model for the sociological analysis of biographical crises, that is, of phases in the lives of individuals marked by the breakdown of habitual frames of action and thought, with substantial impacts on their trajectories. In a first moment, the main contributions of sociology to the study of this problematic are mapped, namely by identifying what in the literature can be framed in the concept of crisis. The second part of this discussion is based on the identification of the main analytical axes which structure the dimensions of sociological analysis of biographical crises.

Keywords: biographical crisis; life course; rupture; unpredictability.