Biographical Research Methods

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Robert Lee Miller
SAGE Publications, Oct 3, 2005 - Social Science - 1648 pages
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.

Contents

A Case Study of Sam Changs
5
Memory of Slavery in Black Families of São Paulo Brazil
41
Account Text Method Martin Kohli 59 5339
59
Interpretive Guidelines Norman K Denzin
73
Telling Your Life
89
Hermeneutic Perspectives on
107
Daniel Bertauxs Complaints or Against False
141
Could Objective Realities Tell Us a Story?
155
Maintaining a Sense of Individual Autonomy Under
207
regards croisés
227
Doing Life Histories
249
Ethical Issues in Ageing and Biography Gary M Kenyon
313
SelfAnalytic
331
On the Conditions
343
Ethical Aspects of Biographical Interviewing
365
Field Ethics for the Life History Carl B Klockars
377

implication et explicitation dans
173
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