""Cover""; ""CONTENTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""1 THE ROLE OF BIOGRAPHY IN SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL STUDIES""; ""Biography and History, People and Cultures""; ""Historical Sociology and Collective Biography""; ""2 THE VICTORIAN CONTEXT""; ""The Progress of Canadian Culture""; ""The Meaning of Democracy and Equality in a Developing Culture""; ""Success""; ""Character as a Bridge for Social Change""; ""Samuel Smiles and the Sanctity of Individual Effort""; ""Phrenology: Physiognomy as an Image of Social Place""; ""3 THE BIOGRAPHERS AT WORK""
""The Proper Data for the Object Lesson""""Creating a Biographical Dictionary: Morgan's Method""; ""The Basic Data of Biographical Representation""; ""Three Representative Men""; ""4 SOCIAL MOBILITY AND GROUP AFFILIATION""; ""Horizontal Mobility as the Retention of Generational Power""; ""Group Affiliation and Social Participation""; ""Shared Affiliation in Two National Organizations""; ""Group Affiliations at the Local Level""; ""Levels of Social Participation""; ""5 REPRESENTATIVE DISTINCTIONS: MEN AND WOMEN IN THE COLLECTIVE BIOGRAPHIES""
""""Differentiation"" and ""Fidelity"": A Cultural Analysis of Gender Representation""""6 THE STRUCTURE OF FEELING IN THE EMERGING MIDDLE CLASS""; ""Personality Characteristics of Biographical Subjects""; ""The Emergence of a Mediating Class""; ""The Professional Ideal and the Middle Class""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""APPENDIX: A Note on Methodology""
