Biographical Research Methods
Number Of Volumes: 4
Robert Lee Miller
- Queen's University Belfast, UK
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9781412902298
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January 0001
Description
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
VOLUME ONE: TIME AND BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH
VOLUME ONE: TIME AND BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH
PART ONE: `THE PLACE OF HISTORY’
- Uses of History
- `Peasants and Workers’
- Life Record of an Immigrant
- Biographieanalyse eines Mullerlebens
- Biographical Research and Historical Watersheds
- `Trajectories of Coping Strategies in Eastern Germany’
PART TWO: `GENERATIONS AND LIFE COURSES’
- The Problem of Generations
- Mannheim’s Sociology of Generations
- An Undervalued Legacy
- Generation as a Sociological Problem
- The Cohort as a Concept in the Study of Social Change
- `The Time of Generations’
- Overview and Highlights of a Sociological Perspective
- `The Historical Context’
- Everyday Time and Life Time: On the Problems of Healing Contradictory Experiences of Time
- `The World We Forgot: A Historical Review of the Life Course’
- Social Organisation and Subjective Construction of the Life Course
VOLUME TWO: THE CONSTRUCTION OF BIOGRAPHICAL MEANING
VOLUME TWO: THE CONSTRUCTION OF BIOGRAPHICAL MEANING
SECTION ONE: `NARRATIVE AND BIOGRAPHY’
- `Narrative Configuration in Qualitative Analysis’
- `Strategic Uses of Narrative in the Presentation of Self and Illness: A Research Note
- `Marking Absences: Holocaust Testimony and History’
- `To Rebuild Life: A Narrative Analysis of Three Generations of an Israeli Holocaust Survivor’s Family’
- ‘Veiling and Denying the Past: The Dialogue of Families of Holocaust Survivors and Families of Nazi Perpetrators’
- `Transcendent Stories and Counternarratives in Holocaust Survivor Life Histories: Searching for Meaning in Video-Testimony Archives’
- `Texts in a Changing Context: Reconstructing Lives in East Germany’
SECTION TWO:`THE PAST IN THE FUTURE: QUESTIONS OF BIOGRAPHICAL IDENTITY’
- The Problem with Identity: Biography as Solution to Some (Post)-Modernist Dilemmas
- `Toward a Social Phenomenology of Aging: Studying the Self Process in Biographical Work’
- ‘Undaunted Courage: Life History and the Postmodern Challenge’
- On Auto/Biography in Sociology
- `Kognitive Figuren des Autobiographishen Stegreifezählens’
- `L’Idéologie: Un Mode de Connaissance’
- `Die Haltung zur Eigenen Biographie’
VOLUME THREE: CONTEXTS
VOLUME THREE: CONTEXTS
SECTION ONE: `THE “GERMAN SCHOOL”’
- `Biographical Analyis: A “German” School?’
- `Biographical Research’
- `Structures of Meaning and Objective Hermeneutics’
- ‘Accompaniments of Chronic Illness'
- Changes in Body, Self, Biography and Biographical Time
- `"Trajectory” As a Basic Theoretical Concept for Suffering and Disorderly Social Processes’
SECTION TWO: `THE SIGNIFICANCE AND ROLE OF THE FAMILY’
- `History and the Family: The Discovery of Complexity’
- `The History of the Family and the Complexity of Social Change’
- `Family Time and Historical Time’
- `Family Myth, Models and Denials in the Shaping of Individual Life Paths’
- `Biography, Family History and the Analysis of Social Change’
- Artisanal Bakery in France
- How it Lives and why it Survives
- Social Genealogies Commented On and Compared
- An Instrument for Observing Social Mobility in “The Longue Durée”
- `The Trans-Pacific Family: A Case Study of Sam Chang’s Family History’
- `Memory of Slavery in Black Families of São Paulo, Brazil
VOLUME FOUR: DISPUTES AND CONCERNS IN BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH
VOLUME FOUR: DISPUTES AND CONCERNS IN BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH
PART SEVEN: `METHODOLOGICAL DEBATES AND ISSUES’
- `Biography: Acccount, Text, Method’
- Interpretive Guidelines
- `Positioning and Autobiography: Telling your Life’
- `The Story of Life: Hermeneutic Perspectives on the Relationship between Narrative and Life History’
- `Biographical and Empiricistic Illusions: A Reply to Recent Criticism’
- A Response to Thierry Kochuyt’s `Biographical and Empiricist Illusions: A Reply to Recent Criticism'
- Daniel Bertaux’s Complaints or Against False Dichotomies in Biographical Research
- Could Objective Realities Tell Us a Story? Reply to Bertaux
- `Context, Authenticity, Referentiality, Reflexivity: Back to Basics in Autobiography'
- `Le <Je> Méthodologique: Implication et Explicitation dans L’Enquête de Terrain'
- `Maintaining a Sense of Individual Autonomy under Conditions of Constraint: A Study of East German Managers'
- `A Propos des Biographies
- Regards crosès sur Questionnaires et Entretiens’
SECTION TWO: `ETHICS’
- `Doing Life Histories’
- `The Moral and Human Face of Life Stories
- Reflexivity, Power and Ethics’
- `Ethical Issues in Ageing and Biography’
- On Writing Other People's LIves: Self-Analytic Reflections of a Narrative Writer
- `The Healing Effects of Storytelling
- On the Conditions of Curative Storytelling in the Context of Research and Counselling’
- `Ethical Aspects of Biographical Interviewing and Analysis’
- `Field Ethics for the Life History’
Description
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
VOLUME ONE: TIME AND BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH
VOLUME ONE: TIME AND BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH
PART ONE: `THE PLACE OF HISTORY’
- Uses of History
- `Peasants and Workers’
- Life Record of an Immigrant
- Biographieanalyse eines Mullerlebens
- Biographical Research and Historical Watersheds
- `Trajectories of Coping Strategies in Eastern Germany’
PART TWO: `GENERATIONS AND LIFE COURSES’
- The Problem of Generations
- Mannheim’s Sociology of Generations
- An Undervalued Legacy
- Generation as a Sociological Problem
- The Cohort as a Concept in the Study of Social Change
- `The Time of Generations’
- Overview and Highlights of a Sociological Perspective
- `The Historical Context’
- Everyday Time and Life Time: On the Problems of Healing Contradictory Experiences of Time
- `The World We Forgot: A Historical Review of the Life Course’
- Social Organisation and Subjective Construction of the Life Course
VOLUME TWO: THE CONSTRUCTION OF BIOGRAPHICAL MEANING
VOLUME TWO: THE CONSTRUCTION OF BIOGRAPHICAL MEANING
SECTION ONE: `NARRATIVE AND BIOGRAPHY’
- `Narrative Configuration in Qualitative Analysis’
- `Strategic Uses of Narrative in the Presentation of Self and Illness: A Research Note
- `Marking Absences: Holocaust Testimony and History’
- `To Rebuild Life: A Narrative Analysis of Three Generations of an Israeli Holocaust Survivor’s Family’
- ‘Veiling and Denying the Past: The Dialogue of Families of Holocaust Survivors and Families of Nazi Perpetrators’
- `Transcendent Stories and Counternarratives in Holocaust Survivor Life Histories: Searching for Meaning in Video-Testimony Archives’
- `Texts in a Changing Context: Reconstructing Lives in East Germany’
SECTION TWO:`THE PAST IN THE FUTURE: QUESTIONS OF BIOGRAPHICAL IDENTITY’
- The Problem with Identity: Biography as Solution to Some (Post)-Modernist Dilemmas
- `Toward a Social Phenomenology of Aging: Studying the Self Process in Biographical Work’
- ‘Undaunted Courage: Life History and the Postmodern Challenge’
- On Auto/Biography in Sociology
- `Kognitive Figuren des Autobiographishen Stegreifezählens’
- `L’Idéologie: Un Mode de Connaissance’
- `Die Haltung zur Eigenen Biographie’
VOLUME THREE: CONTEXTS
VOLUME THREE: CONTEXTS
SECTION ONE: `THE “GERMAN SCHOOL”’
- `Biographical Analyis: A “German” School?’
- `Biographical Research’
- `Structures of Meaning and Objective Hermeneutics’
- ‘Accompaniments of Chronic Illness'
- Changes in Body, Self, Biography and Biographical Time
- `"Trajectory” As a Basic Theoretical Concept for Suffering and Disorderly Social Processes’
SECTION TWO: `THE SIGNIFICANCE AND ROLE OF THE FAMILY’
- `History and the Family: The Discovery of Complexity’
- `The History of the Family and the Complexity of Social Change’
- `Family Time and Historical Time’
- `Family Myth, Models and Denials in the Shaping of Individual Life Paths’
- `Biography, Family History and the Analysis of Social Change’
- Artisanal Bakery in France
- How it Lives and why it Survives
- Social Genealogies Commented On and Compared
- An Instrument for Observing Social Mobility in “The Longue Durée”
- `The Trans-Pacific Family: A Case Study of Sam Chang’s Family History’
- `Memory of Slavery in Black Families of São Paulo, Brazil
VOLUME FOUR: DISPUTES AND CONCERNS IN BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH
VOLUME FOUR: DISPUTES AND CONCERNS IN BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH
PART SEVEN: `METHODOLOGICAL DEBATES AND ISSUES’
- `Biography: Acccount, Text, Method’
- Interpretive Guidelines
- `Positioning and Autobiography: Telling your Life’
- `The Story of Life: Hermeneutic Perspectives on the Relationship between Narrative and Life History’
- `Biographical and Empiricistic Illusions: A Reply to Recent Criticism’
- A Response to Thierry Kochuyt’s `Biographical and Empiricist Illusions: A Reply to Recent Criticism'
- Daniel Bertaux’s Complaints or Against False Dichotomies in Biographical Research
- Could Objective Realities Tell Us a Story? Reply to Bertaux
- `Context, Authenticity, Referentiality, Reflexivity: Back to Basics in Autobiography'
- `Le <Je> Méthodologique: Implication et Explicitation dans L’Enquête de Terrain'
- `Maintaining a Sense of Individual Autonomy under Conditions of Constraint: A Study of East German Managers'
- `A Propos des Biographies
- Regards crosès sur Questionnaires et Entretiens’
SECTION TWO: `ETHICS’
- `Doing Life Histories’
- `The Moral and Human Face of Life Stories
- Reflexivity, Power and Ethics’
- `Ethical Issues in Ageing and Biography’
- On Writing Other People's LIves: Self-Analytic Reflections of a Narrative Writer
- `The Healing Effects of Storytelling
- On the Conditions of Curative Storytelling in the Context of Research and Counselling’
- `Ethical Aspects of Biographical Interviewing and Analysis’
- `Field Ethics for the Life History’
October 2005 | 1648 pages | Sage UK
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 31/03/2026 | 9781412902298 | $1307.00 |
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.
Table Of Contents:
- VOLUME ONE: TIME AND BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH
- PART ONE: `THE PLACE OF HISTORY’
- Uses of History
- `Peasants and Workers’
- Life Record of an Immigrant
- Biographieanalyse eines Mullerlebens
- Biographical Research and Historical Watersheds
- `Trajectories of Coping Strategies in Eastern Germany’
- PART TWO: `GENERATIONS AND LIFE COURSES’
- The Problem of Generations
- Mannheim’s Sociology of Generations
- An Undervalued Legacy
- Generation as a Sociological Problem
- The Cohort as a Concept in the Study of Social Change
- `The Time of Generations’
- Overview and Highlights of a Sociological Perspective
- `The Historical Context’
- Everyday Time and Life Time: On the Problems of Healing Contradictory Experiences of Time
- `The World We Forgot: A Historical Review of the Life Course’
- Social Organisation and Subjective Construction of the Life Course
- VOLUME TWO: THE CONSTRUCTION OF BIOGRAPHICAL MEANING
- SECTION ONE: `NARRATIVE AND BIOGRAPHY’
- `Narrative Configuration in Qualitative Analysis’
- `Strategic Uses of Narrative in the Presentation of Self and Illness: A Research Note
- `Marking Absences: Holocaust Testimony and History’
- `To Rebuild Life: A Narrative Analysis of Three Generations of an Israeli Holocaust Survivor’s Family’
- ‘Veiling and Denying the Past: The Dialogue of Families of Holocaust Survivors and Families of Nazi Perpetrators’
- `Transcendent Stories and Counternarratives in Holocaust Survivor Life Histories: Searching for Meaning in Video-Testimony Archives’
- `Texts in a Changing Context: Reconstructing Lives in East Germany’
- SECTION TWO:`THE PAST IN THE FUTURE: QUESTIONS OF BIOGRAPHICAL IDENTITY’
- The Problem with Identity: Biography as Solution to Some (Post)-Modernist Dilemmas
- `Toward a Social Phenomenology of Aging: Studying the Self Process in Biographical Work’
- ‘Undaunted Courage: Life History and the Postmodern Challenge’
- On Auto/Biography in Sociology
- `Kognitive Figuren des Autobiographishen Stegreifezählens’
- `L’Idéologie: Un Mode de Connaissance’
- `Die Haltung zur Eigenen Biographie’
- VOLUME THREE: CONTEXTS
- SECTION ONE: `THE “GERMAN SCHOOL”’
- `Biographical Analyis: A “German” School?’
- `Biographical Research’
- `Structures of Meaning and Objective Hermeneutics’
- ‘Accompaniments of Chronic Illness'
- Changes in Body, Self, Biography and Biographical Time
- `"Trajectory” As a Basic Theoretical Concept for Suffering and Disorderly Social Processes’
- SECTION TWO: `THE SIGNIFICANCE AND ROLE OF THE FAMILY’
- `History and the Family: The Discovery of Complexity’
- `The History of the Family and the Complexity of Social Change’
- `Family Time and Historical Time’
- `Family Myth, Models and Denials in the Shaping of Individual Life Paths’
- `Biography, Family History and the Analysis of Social Change’
- Artisanal Bakery in France
- How it Lives and why it Survives
- Social Genealogies Commented On and Compared
- An Instrument for Observing Social Mobility in “The Longue Durée”
- `The Trans-Pacific Family: A Case Study of Sam Chang’s Family History’
- `Memory of Slavery in Black Families of São Paulo, Brazil
- VOLUME FOUR: DISPUTES AND CONCERNS IN BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH
- PART SEVEN: `METHODOLOGICAL DEBATES AND ISSUES’
- `Biography: Acccount, Text, Method’
- Interpretive Guidelines
- `Positioning and Autobiography: Telling your Life’
- `The Story of Life: Hermeneutic Perspectives on the Relationship between Narrative and Life History’
- `Biographical and Empiricistic Illusions: A Reply to Recent Criticism’
- A Response to Thierry Kochuyt’s `Biographical and Empiricist Illusions: A Reply to Recent Criticism'
- Daniel Bertaux’s Complaints or Against False Dichotomies in Biographical Research
- Could Objective Realities Tell Us a Story? Reply to Bertaux
- `Context, Authenticity, Referentiality, Reflexivity: Back to Basics in Autobiography'
- `Le <Je> Méthodologique: Implication et Explicitation dans L’Enquête de Terrain'
- `Maintaining a Sense of Individual Autonomy under Conditions of Constraint: A Study of East German Managers'
- `A Propos des Biographies
- Regards crosès sur Questionnaires et Entretiens’
- SECTION TWO: `ETHICS’
- `Doing Life Histories’
- `The Moral and Human Face of Life Stories
- Reflexivity, Power and Ethics’
- `Ethical Issues in Ageing and Biography’
- On Writing Other People's LIves: Self-Analytic Reflections of a Narrative Writer
- `The Healing Effects of Storytelling
- On the Conditions of Curative Storytelling in the Context of Research and Counselling’
- `Ethical Aspects of Biographical Interviewing and Analysis’
- `Field Ethics for the Life History’