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Biographical Research reflects a rapid expansion of interest in the study of lives taking place within the social sciences. Life story, oral history, narrative, autobiography, biography and other approaches are being used more and more to explain how individuals interpret experiences and social relationships. The book examines the methodological and theoretical developments associated with research on lives in sociology, oral history, ethnography, biography, and narrative analysis. The author includes numerous examples of biographical research from his own work and other studies, and addresses important areas such as the collection and interpretation of materials, uses of biographical research, oral and written accounts, the interview relationship, the construction of the story, memory, audience, and the researcher's own biography. In conclusion, it draws out common themes and emerging concerns.

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• Series editor's foreword(p. ix)
• Acknowledgements(p. xi)
• 1 Introduction: biographical research(p. 1)
• Biographical research: defining the field(p. 1)
• The development of biographical research(p. 3)
• Methodological issues(p. 6)
• The researcher's role(p. 13)
• Theoretical approaches(p. 14)
• Biographical research(p. 15)
• Recommended reading(p. 17)
• 2 Uses of biographical research(p. 18)
• Uses of biographical research(p. 18)
• Disciplines and contexts(p. 22)
• Education(p. 23)
• Oral history(p. 24)
• Health and ageing(p. 25)
• Feminist research(p. 28)
• Narratives of the body and sexuality(p. 29)
• Autobiography and biography(p. 30)
• Conclusion(p. 31)
• Recommended reading(p. 31)
• 3 The life history(p. 33)
• The life history(p. 33)
• Individual lives and social structures(p. 34)
• Life history data and method(p. 37)
• Deviance, career, becoming(p. 40)
• Case studies(p. 42)
• Types of interpretation(p. 46)
• Conclusion(p. 50)
• Recommended reading(p. 51)
• 4 Autobiography and biography(p. 52)
• Autobiography and biography--definitions(p. 52)
• Genre(p. 56)
• Issues in autobiography and biography(p. 60)
• Letters, diaries, memoirs and other personal 'artefacts'(p. 62)
• Case study(p. 66)
• Fiction and non-fiction(p. 69)
• Conclusion(p. 71)
• Recommended reading(p. 72)
• 5 Auto/biography and sociology(p. 73)
• Auto/biography--definitions and relations(p. 73)
• Individual experiences and auto/biographical writing(p. 75)
• Feminism and auto/biography(p. 77)
• Intertextuality--written and oral texts(p. 78)
• Hermeneutics, phenomenology and narrative texts(p. 80)
• Time perspectives--Mead, Schutz and Ricoeur(p. 82)
• The researcher as an auto/biographer(p. 84)
• The researcher and the researched subject(p. 87)
• Individual lives and social lives(p. 88)
• Case study(p. 88)
• Conclusion(p. 91)
• Recommended reading(p. 92)
• 6 Oral history(p. 93)
• Oral history--definitions(p. 93)
• Uses and types of oral history(p. 95)
• Origins(p. 97)
• Development and purpose(p. 99)
• Ethics(p. 104)
• Evidence, truth and the researcher(p. 104)
• Political standpoint(p. 107)
• Case study(p. 110)
• Conclusion(p. 113)
• Recommended reading(p. 113)
• 7 The narrative analysis of lives(p. 115)
• Narrative analysis--definitions(p. 115)
• Narrative analysis(p. 117)
• Time and narrative(p. 123)
• Myth and narrative(p. 124)
• Case study(p. 128)
• Other 'models' of life study(p. 130)
• Conclusion(p. 132)
• Recommended reading(p. 133)
• 8 Memory and autobiography(p. 134)
• Types of memory(p. 134)
• The social transmission of memories(p. 140)
• Case study(p. 142)
• Family and group memories(p. 144)
• Public and private memories(p. 145)
• Methodological issues: recollection and selectivity(p. 147)
• Conclusion(p. 148)
• Recommended reading(p. 149)
• 9 Ethnography and biographical research(p. 151)
• Fieldwork, ethnography and participant observation--definition and practice(p. 152)
• Research roles(p. 152)
• Methodological issues(p. 153)
• Ethnography and key informants(p. 154)
• Reflexivity and the researcher's life experience of ethnography(p. 157)
• Ethnographic texts(p. 160)
• Case study(p. 162)
• Oral traditions and biography(p. 164)
• Conclusion(p. 165)
• Recommended reading(p. 166)
• 10 Conclusion(p. 167)
• Disciplines(p. 169)
• The biographical turn(p. 169)
• Identity(p. 170)
• Time(p. 171)
• Memory(p. 172)
• Researcher's self(p. 172)
• Methodology(p. 173)
• New technology(p. 173)
• Conclusion(p. 174)
• Recommended reading(p. 175)
• Glossary(p. 176)
• References(p. 178)
• Index(p. 200)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Brian Roberts is Principal Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Behavioural Sciences, University of Huddersfield