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Before you start your research, check the correct spelling of the person’s name.
While you research, keep in mind that all sources can contain bias; the best biographical information will be signed by an author and will provide bibliographic citations for source material. Research Questions:
- What do you already know about the person?
- How much information do you want to find about the person?
- What is the person's profession or notoriety?
- How well known is the person?
- Is the person’s nationality, ethnic background, gender, or affiliation significant?
- Is the person living or deceased?
- What dates are significant for this person?
- Do you want autobiography, memoir, or interviews in addition to biographical sources?
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Q: How do I attribute biography.com when I use information from biographies on the site for a class project or for publication?
A: Biography.com includes citation examples in multiple formats at the end of each lengthy biography.
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Biographical Research Methods
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These four volumes present the first established collection of the biographical method literature and brings together the many diverse strands. The set will serve to set the canon for this re-established research area.
The collection is organized around eight themes: the classical statements dominated by the pre-war American `'Chicago School' of sociology; the neo-classical statements of the first wave of renewed interest in the 1970s; interviewing, including reflexivity, recall and narrative structures; analysis and the principles of selection in generating stories for narrative biographical interviews; biographical concepts such as life courses and generations; transitions and social trauma; biography and social policy; and controversies in biographical research. VOLUME ONE: TIME AND BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH PART ONE: `THE PLACE OF HISTORY’ C Wright Mills Uses of History John Madge `Peasants and Workers’ Wladek Wiszniewski Life Record of an Immigrant Fritz Schutze Biographieanalyse eines Mullerlebens Robert Miller, Robin Humphrey and Elena Zdravomyslova Biographical Research and Historical Watersheds Olaf Struck `Trajectories of Coping Strategies in Eastern Germany’ PART TWO: `GENERATIONS AND LIFE COURSES’ Karl Mannheim The Problem of Generations J Pilcher Mannheim’s Sociology of Generations An Undervalued Legacy
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Biographical Research and New Social Architectures
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This chapter provides an introduction to the depth and range of Biographical Research. It is clear that Biographical Research is firmly established within the social sciences, becoming part of the ‘mainstream’ in research practice. What is apparent is the increasing extension of interest in forms of ‘personal documents’ and the varied types of ‘interview’ and its analysis being developed. The chapter outlines some areas for creative developments in the field arising from the impact of digital technologies within society. It argues that Biographical Research needs to recognise forms of ‘individual consciousness’ in the experience of ‘everyday life’. By suggesting surrealist and synthaesthetic methodologies the chapter may stimulate new interpretive approaches to understand ‘lives on the move’.
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Biographical Research Challenges and Creativity
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Studying people’s lives requires acknowledging the multiple entanglements between individual singularity and processes of social patterning. This book testifies how challenging and creative the study of these connections can be. It gathers international contributions that show, in imaginative ways, how a person’s life or specific domains of existence can be observed, tackled, and analysed across time. This volume reveals the potential of biographical research in the production of social theory, in the development of methodological innovation, in giving voice and protagonism to people, and in the understanding of the social unfolding of their lives. It is a testimony of a vibrant and youthful field, with a long tradition in social sciences, and with numerous connections with other study areas, namely the life course approach. The different chapters illustrate how the challenges posed by this type of research focused on the individual level of analysis are particular and what creative responses are required to continue analysing the link between biography and society. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Contemporary Social Science .
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Ana Caetano is Researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte) and Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Research Methods at Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon. She has been developing biographical research to study personal reflexivity, biographical crises and triangulation. Magda Nico is Sociologist, Researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte), and Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Research Methods at Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon. She is interested in life course theory and methods and longitudinal research.
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Biographical research is a qualitative research approach aligned to the social interpretive paradigm of research. The biographical research is concerned with the reconstruction of life histories and the constitution of meaning based on biographical narratives and documents. The material for analysis consists of interview protocols (memorandums), video recordings, photographs, and a diversity ...
Biographical research in education may be conceived in many different ways; however, typically the topic constitutes the study of a single life, focusing primarily upon an individual who in some way is affiliated with the professional field of education, broadly conceived (Garraty, 1957; Oates, 1986). Other research methodologies are often ...
Chapters. Chapter 1: Discovering biographical narrative research. Chapter 2: Theoretical approaches to biographical narratives. Chapter 3: Interview process and ethics. Chapter 4: Autobiographical narrative interview method. Chapter 5: Narrative ethnography. Chapter 6: Logical systems, qualitative comparative analysis and quantitative coding.
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 ...
approaches using a broad range of material as e.g. letters, publications, autobiographical writing, research which uses the Narrative Interview (Schütze 1976, 1983, compare Rosenthal 2004), and. semi-structured interview-strategies (e.g. problem centred interview, Witzel 2000).
Abstract. This case study is in process, begun in 2008, in which I am currently collecting data for an authorized biography. It outlines what has recently been a shift in the role of researchers, especially during interviews, from one of structured questioner to a more collaborative role, that of conversational partner.
Reconstructive biographical research is a distinct sociological approach to social analysis. It explores the interrelation between 'biography' and 'society' and thus belongs to those sociological approaches that are linked to the assumption that 'society' is made up of individuals and cannot be conceived independently of their interpretations and actions.
Abstract. Reconstructive biographical research is a diverse and differentiated sociological field. In this introduction, we trace its interdisciplinary and transnational historical development, consider the most important theoretical influences, and characterize central research areas. In this way, we show that reconstructive biographical ...
Biographical Research Methods takes this forward, deftly focusing on concepts and techniques for analyzing the contours of personal experience. ... Researchers can explore methods concepts to help them design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings. Since ...
Biographical data provide unique insights into social life, but they also pose some significant challenges for social science researchers. This book offers a systematic, flexible guide to using biographical narrative methods in your research project. Drawing upon the authors' own research, as well as case studies from a range of international contexts and disciplines, the book illustrates how ...
PDF | The chapter reviews three different approaches to biographical methods, the biographical interpretive method, oral history and narrative analysis.... | Find, read and cite all the research ...
Trustworthy biographical data is a cornerstone of research, whether one needs to place a person in historical and cultural context, verify birth date and place, or introduce a speaker to an audience. ... Search this Guide Search. Biographical Research: Getting Started. Trustworthy biographical data is a cornerstone of research, whether one ...
Society for Research in the Education of Adults (ESREA) Life History and Biographical Network has been critical in encouraging and developing the use of biographical methods in varied adult education contexts such as higher education, community education, the workplace as well as informal learning in the family and elsewhere. The 'turn' to ...
Firstly, biographical research allows us to understand an individual's life in its broader social context. Every decision in the biography, whether about migration or participation in armed conflict, is an outcome of both individual motivations and social circumstances.
Sociology lecturers are introducing biographical methods in order tackle pedagogical difficulties associated with the increasing marketisation of higher education and the depoliticised attitudes of the students. (McLean and Abbas, 2009). Furthermore, the trend towards biographical teaching methods is particularly marked in post-1992 universities.
Four Volume Set. The life history or biographical research method was popular in the early decades of the twentieth century and, after a period of eclipse caused by the rise of quantitative methods, is enjoying a resurgence of interest. This burgeoning of interest is enough that we can now speak of a biographical `turn' as the social sciences.
Dr. Eichsteller and Dr. Howard Davis, co-authors of Biographical Research Methods, discuss varied ways to use these approaches. Find their previous Methodspace posts How telling one person's story can represent the voices of many, and Doing Biographical Research in Challenging Times.Use the code MSPACEQ422 for a 20% discount valid until December 31, 2022.
What are the building blocks of the new societal architectures after COVID-19? What are the evolving lifestyle patterns, social connections and relationality, and what can biographical research bring to explore these unprecedented societal circumstances? This first book in a new series Advances in Biographical Research focuses on the place of biographical research in analysing and shaping ...
This chapter provides an introduction to the depth and range of Biographical Research. It is clear that Biographical Research is firmly established within the social sciences, becoming part of the 'mainstream' in research practice. What is apparent is the increasing extension of interest in forms of 'personal documents' and the varied ...
Biographical data provide unique insights into social life, but they also pose some significant challenges for social science researchers. ... real-world research · Apply your analytical and research tools to your research question · Choose the right research design for your project, whether single or mixed methods · Ground your ...
Biographical research is part of the broader practice of qualitative meth- ods: 'Qualitative researchers tend to espouse an approach in which theory and empirical investigation are interwoven . . . during or at the end of field- work, rather than being a precursor to it' (Bryman 1988: 81).
Biography. Ana Caetano is Researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte) and Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Research Methods at Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon. She has been developing biographical research to study personal reflexivity, biographical crises and triangulation. Magda Nico is Sociologist, Researcher at the Centre for Research and ...
Biography is 'an account of someone's life written by someone else.' (Oxford, 2016). Biographical research aids in developing a concept of learning which is context-specific, rather than ...