Biographical Research MethodsRobert Lee Miller The life history or biographical research method was popular in the early decades of the twentieth century and, after a period of eclipse caused by the rise of quantitative methods, is enjoying a resurgence of interest. This burgeoning of interest is enough that we can now speak of a biographical `turn' as the social sciences These four volumes present the first established collection of the biographical method literature and brings together the many diverse strands. The set will serve to set the canon for this re-established research area. The collection is organized around eight themes: the classical statements dominated by the pre-war American `'Chicago School' of sociology; the neo-classical statements of the first wave of renewed interest in the 1970s; interviewing, including reflexivity, recall and narrative structures; analysis and the principles of selection in generating stories for narrative biographical interviews; biographical concepts such as life courses and generations; transitions and social trauma; biography and social policy; and controversies in biographical research. |
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... East German author Christa Wolf vividly conjures up a different , and more paralysing , loss of language which the ... East Germans are “ forced into the West German identity " whereas he " would have preferred to come to a new identity ...
... East Germany , it is not limited to them . Many people who lived under state socialism found themselves , in the wake of its demise , in search of a new past . There has been a very concerted effort among portions of the East German ...
... East Germans , and which they exerted upon themselves , to fabricate an identity , existed with lesser intensity across the whole population . The problem of rendering East German life histories has two central components . First , as I ...
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A Historical Review of | 5 |
Social Organization and Subjective Construction of | 36 |
Narrative Configuration in Qualitative Analysis | 69 |
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