SAGE Biographical Research
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SAGE Biographical Research

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SAGE Biographical Research

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Biographical research may take a range of forms and may vary in its application and approach but has the unified and coherent aim to give ?voice? to individuals. The central concern of this collection is to assemble articles (from sociology, social psychology, education, health, criminology, social gerontology, epidemiology, management and organizational research) that illustrate the full range of debates, methods and techniques that can be combined under the heading ?biographical research?.

Volume One: Biographical Research: Starting Points, Debates and Approaches explores the different biographical methods currently used while locating these within the history of social science methods.

Volume Two: Biographical Interviews, Oral Histories and Life Narratives focuses on the more established, interview-based, biographical research methods and considers the analytical strategies used for interview-based biographical research

Volume Three: Forms of Life Writing: Letters, Diaries and Auto/Biography considers the value of ?data? contained within letters, diaries and auto/biography and illustrates how this data has been analyzed to reveal biographies and their social context.

Volume Four: Other Documents of Life: Photographs, Cyber Documents and Ephemera focuses on the ?other? human documents and objects, like photographs, cyber-documents (emails, blogs, social networking sites, webpages) and other ephemera (such as official documents) that are used extensively in biographical research.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Appendix of Sources
  4. Editor’s Introduction: Biographical Research – Researching ‘Lives’ at the Intersection of History and Biography
  5. 1 - Biographical Method
  6. 2 - The Auto/Biographical Society
  7. 3 - Assumptions of the Method
  8. 4 - A Biographical Turn in the Social Sciences? A British-European View
  9. 5 - On Auto/Biography in Sociology
  10. 6 - Weaving Stories: PersonalAuto/Biographies in Feminist Research
  11. 7 - Autobiography, Intimacy and Ethnography
  12. 8 - Practicing Sociological Imagination through Writing Sociological Autobiography
  13. 9 - The Interpretation of Documents and Material Culture
  14. 10 - Observing Culture and Social Life: Documentary Photography, Fieldwork, and Social Research
  15. 11 - Repositioning Documents in Social Research
  16. 12 - Oral History
  17. 13 - Oral and Life History
  18. 14 - Introduction: What Is Narrative Research?
  19. 15 - The Narrative Potential of the British Birth Cohort Studies
  20. 16 - Qualitative Longitudinal Research
  21. 17 - Text, Context and Individual Meaning: Rethinking Life Stories in a Hermeneutic Framework
  22. 18 - Analytic Autoethnography
  23. 19 - Autoethnography in Vocational Psychology: Wearing Your Class on Your Sleeve
  24. Volume II
  25. Contents
  26. 20 - Securing Biographical Experience
  27. 21 - Collecting Life Histories
  28. 22 - Narrative Methodologies: Subjects, Silences, Re-Readings and Analyses
  29. 23 - Madness to the Method? Using a Narrative Methodology to Analyse Large-Scale Complex Social Phenomena
  30. 24 - Narrating Life Stories in between the Fictional and the Autobiographical
  31. 25 - Among the Chosen: A Collaborative Educational (Auto)biography
  32. 26 - Bodies, Narratives, Selves, and Autobiography: The Example of Lance Armstrong
  33. 27 - Growing Up with a Lesbian Mother: A Theoretically-based Analysis of Personal Experience
  34. 28 - Researching Groups of Lives: A Collective Biographical Perspective on the Protestant Ethic Debate
  35. 29 - Developing Narrative Research in Supportive and Palliative Care:The Focus on Illness Narratives
  36. 30 - The Life History Interview Method: Applications to Intervention Development
  37. 31 - Life Stories and Social Careers: Ageing and Social Life in an Ex-Mining Town
  38. 32 - The Written Life History as a Prime Research Tool in Adult Education
  39. 33 - Looking Back, Looking Forward: Reflections on Using a Life History Review Tool with Older People
  40. 34 - Emplacing the Research Encounter: Exploring Farm Life Histories
  41. 35 - ‘Hidden Ethnography’: Crossing Emotional Borders in Qualitative Accounts of Young People’s Lives
  42. 36 - ‘We’re Not Ethnic, We’re Irish!’: Oral Histories and the Discursive Construction of Immigrant Identity
  43. 37 - Neighborhood Planning: Uses of Oral History
  44. 38 - Reminiscing Television: Media Ethnography, Oral History and Finnish Third Generation Media History
  45. 39 - Consent in Oral History Interviews: Unique Challenges
  46. 40 - Who Do We Think We Are? Self and Reflexivity in Social Work Practice
  47. 41 - Statistical Stories? The Use of Narrative in Quantitative Analysis
  48. Volume III
  49. Contents
  50. 42 - Shadows Lying across Her Pages: Epistolary Aspects of Reading ‘the Eventful I’ in Olive Schreiner’s Letters
  51. 43 - Sociological Imaginings and Imagining Sociology: Bodies, Auto/Biographies and Other Mysteries
  52. 44 - Letters to a Young Baller: Exploring Epistolary Criticism
  53. 45 - Introduction 2. ‘Anxiously Yours’: The Epistolary Self and the Culture of Concern
  54. 46 - Do Their Words Really Matter? Thematic Analysis of U.S.and Latin American CEO Letters
  55. 47 - Five Holiday Letters: A Fiction
  56. 48 - Dear Shit-Shovellers: Humour, Censure and the Discourse of Complaint
  57. 49 - Guidelines for Quality in Autobiographical Forms of Self-Study Research
  58. 50 - Wole Soyinka and Autobiographyas Political Unconscious
  59. 51 - Researching Diaries
  60. 52 - Getting Started: Finding Diarists and Diaries
  61. 53 - Public and Private Meanings in Diaries: Researching Family and Childcare
  62. 54 - The Personal Is Political: Using Daily Diaries to Examine Everyday Prejudice-Related Experiences
  63. 55 - Recalling the Letter:The Uses of Oral Testimony in Historical Studies of Literacy
  64. 56 - Meaning of Workin Dalit Autobiographies
  65. 57 - Two Hours or More Away from Most Things: Re:writing Identities from No Fixed Address
  66. Volume IV
  67. Contents
  68. 58 - Families, Secrets and Memories
  69. 59 - Accessories to a Life Story: From Written Diaries to Video Diaries
  70. 60 - The Virtual Objects of Ethnography
  71. 61 - Kin-to-Be: Betrothal, Legal Documents, and Reconfiguring Relational Obligations in Egypt
  72. 62 - ‘Freshly Generated for You, and Barack Obama’: How Social Media Represent Your Life
  73. 63 - History, Living Biography, and Self-Narrative
  74. 64 - Moving Stories: Using Mobile Methods to Explore the Everyday Lives of Young People in Public Care
  75. 65 - ‘Entering the Blogosphere’: Some Strategies for Using Blogs in Social Research
  76. 66 - Fieldnotes in Public: Using Blogs for Research
  77. 67 - Visual Storytelling: A Benefi cial but Challenging Method for Health Research with Young People
  78. 68 - Beyond the Standard Interview: The Use of Graphic Elicitation and Arts-based Methods
  79. 69 - Prison Tattoos as a Reflection of the Criminal Lifestyle
  80. 70 - Something to Show for It: The Place of Mementoes in Women’s Oral Histories of Work
  81. 71 - ‘Goods, Chattels and Sundry Items’: Constructing 19th-Century Anglo-Indian Domestic Life
  82. 72 - Self-Enhancement or Self-Coherence? Why People Shift Visual Perspective in Mental Images of the Personal Past and Future
  83. 73 - Inner-City Children in Sharper Focus: Sociology of Childhood and Photo Elicitation Interviews