The turn to biographical methods in social science : comparative issues and examples / / edited by Prue Chamberlayne, Joanna Bornat, and Tom Wengraf
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| Titolo: |
The turn to biographical methods in social science : comparative issues and examples / / edited by Prue Chamberlayne, Joanna Bornat, and Tom Wengraf
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2000 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (365 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 300/.7/2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Social sciences - Biographical methods |
| Social sciences - Research | |
| Altri autori: |
ChamberlaynePrue
BornatJoanna
WengrafTom
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| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The turn to biographical methods in social science |
| ISBN: | 1-134-58537-3 |
| 1-280-40377-2 | |
| 0-203-46604-7 | |
| 1-134-58538-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910172237303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
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Social research today.