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Record Nr.

UNISA996218672303316

Titolo

The turn to biographical methods in social science : comparative issues and examples / / edited by Prue Chamberlayne, Joanna Bornat, and Tom Wengraf

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

1-134-58537-3

1-280-40377-2

0-203-46604-7

1-134-58538-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (365 p.)

Collana

Social research today

Altri autori (Persone)

ChamberlaynePrue

BornatJoanna

WengrafTom

Disciplina

300.72

300/.7/2

Soggetti

Social sciences - Biographical methods

Social sciences - Research

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Introduction: the biographical turn; 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 of self to a case example

Uncovering the general from within the particular: from contingencies to typologies in the understanding of casesExamples 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 attitudes in the biographies of West



German youth; The metamorphosis of habitus among East Germans; R

Sommario/riassunto

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.