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Researching Life Stories and Family Histories

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A guide to the methods and issues involved in carrying out biographical, life history or family history research. Robert Miller demonstrates that biographical research is a distinctive way of conceptualizing social activity. He covers the three main approaches to biographical and family history: realist - focused around grounded-theory techniques of interviewing; neo-positivist - more structured interview techniques; and narrative - with emphasis on the active construction of life stories through the interplay between interviewer and interviewee. This introduction to the field integrates American and European traditions and provides exercises.
Introduction The Historical Context Collecting and Organizing Family Histories Collecting Life Histories Analyzing Life Histories The Biographical Perspective
`A comprehensive, balanced and judicious treatment of biographical methods in social research, made all the more useful to students by its careful delineation of the practicalities involved' - Raymond M Lee, Royal Holloway, University of London
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