SOC 7106 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Community Studies, The Need, Repurposing

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 7106
• Professor: Willow Scobie

Document Summary

A restudy of young workers from the 1960s. Introduction: i(cid:374)(cid:272)e 2000 a restud(cid:455) of (cid:862)adjust(cid:373)e(cid:374)t of you(cid:374)g workers to work ituatio(cid:374)s a(cid:374)d adult. In other words, the relatively smooth cradle to the grave career was not the case for them, thus how was this written in their biographies. We then outline our research design with the intention of providing something of a blueprint for other restudy based lifecourse research. Following this we reflect on some of the methodological complexities of researching work and the life course in the way that we did. They indicate that sociology should be concerned with the events occurring in space and time, history and sociology are not present. These questions can only be answered by looking back: the disregard of legacy studies is based on a progress of scientific knowledge that implies that all knowledge is linear, going in one direction.