Making a Life in Yorkville

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Handel's analysis of the life course of "Tony Santangelo" is an exceptional book, drawing extensively on both theory and methods in a way other life course researches should emulate. His purpose is to broaden the study of the life course by applying the methods of life history to analyze lives and using the symbolic interactionist perspective. The life history is a longstanding approach to data collection, but its use by life course researchers has not been extensive. Similarly, the foundations that underlie Handel's theorizing are as old as the symbolic interactionist perspective itself, yet life course researchers underutilize this approach today. Handel builds on these "classical" approaches to develop new concepts in making sense of his life course data, and this original theorizing provides useful tools for others to use.