| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 346 pages). |
| Series |
Social research today |
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Social research today (Routledge (Firm))
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| Note |
Print version record |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Chapter Introduction -- The biographical turn / Prue Chamberlayne -- part Part 1 Issues of methodology and theory -- chapter 1 Reflections on the biographical turn in social science / Michael Rustin -- chapter 2 Biographical analysis -- A 'German' school? / Ursula Apitzsch -- chapter 3 Case histories of families and social processes -- Enriching sociology / Daniel Bertaux -- chapter 4 The vanishing point of resemblance -- Comparative welfare as philosophical anthropology / Andrew Cooper -- chapter 5 Biographical work and biographical structuring in present-day societies / Wolfram Fischer-Rosenthal -- chapter 6 Clinical hermeneutics -- From the ontology of self to a case example / Anthony Hazzard -- part Part 2 Examples of biographical methods in use -- chapter 8 Biography, anxiety and the experience of locality / Wendy Hollway -- chapter 9 Texts in a changing context -- Reconstructing lives in East Germany / Molly Andrews -- chapter 10 Situated selves, the coming-out genre and equivalent citizenship in narratives of HIV / Corinne Squire -- chapter 11 Extreme right attitudes in the biographies of West German youth / Martina Schiebel -- chapter 12 The metamorphosis of habitus among East Germans / Astrid Segert -- chapter 13 Researching the implications of family change for older people -- The contribution of a life-history approach / Joanna Bornat -- chapter 14 Biography and identity -- Life story work in transitions of care for people with profound learning difficulties / David Middleton -- chapter 15 Understanding the carers' world -- A biographical-interpretive case study / Chris Jones -- chapter 16 Single mothers and Berlin life-styles -- A new mode of social reproduction / Claudia Neusüss -- chapter 17 Part of the system -- The experience of home-based caring in West Germany / Annette King -- chapter 18 Modernisation as lived experience -- Contrasting case studies from the SOSTRIS project / Prue Chamberlayne. |
| Summary |
Annotation Biographical research methods have become a useful and popular tool for contemporary social scientists. This book combines an exploration of the historical and philosophical origins of this important field of qualitative research with comparative examples of the different ways that biographical methods have been successfully applied internationally. Through these many illustrative examples of socio-biography in process the authors show how formal textual analysis, whilst uncovering hidden emotional defences, can also shed light on wider historical processes of societal transformation. Topics discussed include: *individual and linked lives *generational change *political influences on memory and identity *biographical work in reflexive societies *narrativity and empowerment in professional practice *ways of theorising and generalising from case-studies. Biographical Methods in the Social Sciences promotes debate and provides opportunities for students and researchers to widen their uses of narrative research. |
| Local Note |
EBSCOhost SocINDEX with Full Text |
| Subject |
Social sciences -- Biographical methods.
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Social sciences -- Research.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Research.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Methodology.
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Social sciences -- Biographical methods.
(OCoLC)fst01122890
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Social sciences -- Research. (OCoLC)fst01122944
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Research management.
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Testimonies.
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Anthropology.
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| Added Author |
Chamberlayne, Prue, editor.
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Bornat, Joanna, editor.
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Wengraf, Tom, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Turn to biographical methods in social science. London ; New York : Routledge, 2000 0415228379 (DLC) 99048261 (OCoLC)42398080 |
| ISBN |
0203466047 (electronic book) |
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9780203466049 (electronic book) |
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0415228379 (Cloth) |
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9780415228374 (Cloth) |
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0415228387 (paperback) |
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9780415228381 (paperback) |
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