Turn to Biographical Methods in Social Science Comparative Issues and Examples

Name: Turn to Biographical Methods in Social Science Comparative Issues and Examples
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ISBN: 9780415228381

ISBN-10: 0415228387

ISBN-13: 9780415228381

Edition: 2000

Authors: Prue Chamberlayne, Joanna Bornat, Tom Wengraf

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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, while uncovering hidden emotional defenses, can also shed light on wider historical processes of societal transformation.

Book details

List price: $70.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 9/15/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Introduction



Issues of Methodology and Theory



reflections on the biographical turn in social science




biographical analysis: a 'German' school?




case histories of families and social processes: enriching sociology




the vanishing point of resemblance: comparative welfare as philosophical anthropology




biographical work and biographical structuring in present-day societies




Clinical Hermeneutics: from the ontology to self as a case example




uncovering the general from within the particular: from contingencies to typologies in the understanding of cases




Examples of Biographical Methods in Use



biography, anxiety and the experience of locality




texts in a changing context: reconstructing lives in east Germany




situated selves, the coming-out genre and equivalent citizenship in narratives of HIV




extreme right attitutes in the biographies of west German youth




the metamorphosis of Habitus among east Germans




researching the implications of family change for older people: the contribution of a life-history approach




biography and identity: life-story work in transitions of care for people with profound learning difficulties




understanding the carer's world: a biographic-interpretive case study




single mothers and Berlin life-styles: a new mode of social reproduction




part of the system: the experience of home-based caring in west Germany




modernisation as lived experience: contrasting case examples from the Sostris project