Using biographical methods in social research / Barbara Merrill and Linden West.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : SAGE, 2009Description: xi, 211 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1412929598
- 9781412929592
- 141292958X
- 9781412929585
- 300.722 22
- H61
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300.721 TER Essentials of thematic analysis / | 300.721 WAL Qualitative social research : contemporary methods for the digital age / | 300.722 HAM Case study methods / | 300.722 MER Using biographical methods in social research / | 300.722 RES Researching life stories : method, theory, and analyses in a biographical age / | 300.722 SIM Case study research in practice / | 300.722 TIG Understanding case study research : small-scale research with meaning / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Setting the Scene -- Biographical Methods: an Introductory History -- Mapping the Contemporary Uses of Biographical Research -- Identifying Some Theoretical Issues -- Illustrating Good Practice: Case Studies -- Getting Started in Research -- Interviewing and Recording Experience -- Making Sense of Biography: Analysis -- Representing the Stories: Writing Up -- Is Biographical Research Valid and Ethical? -- On Being a Biographical Researcher.
"Using Biographical Methods in Social Research provides an informative, comprehensive, accessible and practical guide to the nature and use of biographical methods, combining a consideration of theoretical issues with practical guidance. Barbara Merrill and Linden West consider important questions about what research is for, what makes it valid, to the practical business of interviewing, analyzing and writing up of biographical data. The authors draw on their sociological and psychological orientations to provide a truly interdisciplinary approach to the subject, and provide numerous examples of biographical research across the social sciences. This book will equip students with all the skills necessary to undertake biographical research as well as to fully understand what they are doing, and the implications of the assumptions they make about the nature of truth, knowledge, story telling, and being human. It will be useful for students and researchers using biographical methods in a range of disciplines, including sociology, social policy, social psychology, and education."--Publisher's website.
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