Exemplary stories: on the uses of biography in recent sociology. Book review essay of "The disobedient generation: social theorists in the sixties" by A. Sica and S. Turner (eds), University of Chicago, 2005; "Sociolosits in a global age: biographical perspectives by M. Deflem (ed), Ashgate, 2007; and "The new inidividualism: the emotional costs of globalization" by A. Elliott and C. Lemert, Routledge, 2006

De la Fuente reviews three books, namely, The Disobedient Generation: Social Theorists in the Sixties edited by Alan Sica and Stephen Turner; Sociologists in a Global Age: Biographical Perspectives edited by Matthieu Deflem; and The New Individualism: The Emotional Costs of Globalization by Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert