Sage Biographical Research

Author : John Goodwin
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1521 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446275924

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SAGE Biographical Research by John Goodwin Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:809163621

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SAGE Biographical Research by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pertti Alasuutari,Leonard Bickman,Julia Brannen
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473971264

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The SAGE Handbook of Social Research Methods by Pertti Alasuutari,Leonard Bickman,Julia Brannen Pdf

The SAGE Handbook of Social Research Methods is a must for every social-science researcher. It charts the new and evolving terrain of social research methodology, covering qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods in one volume. The Handbook includes chapters on each phase of the research process: research design, methods of data collection, and the processes of analyzing and interpreting data. The volume maintains that there is much more to research than learning skills and techniques; methodology involves the fit between theory, research questions research design and analysis. The book also includes several chapters that describe historical and current directions in social research, debating crucial subjects such as qualitative versus quantitative paradigms, how to judge the credibility of types of research, and the increasingly topical issue of research ethics. The Handbook serves as an invaluable resource for approaching research with an open mind. This volume maps the field of social research methods using an approach that will prove valuable for both students and researchers.

Author : Marta J. Eichsteller,Howard H. Davis
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529786699

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Biographical Research Methods by Marta J. Eichsteller,Howard H. Davis Pdf

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 biographical approaches can be tailored to different research questions and environments. This book will help you to: · Navigate any complexities or missteps when undertaking 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 understanding within diverse real-world research examples. Clear, adaptable, and applied, this is your definitive guide to working with biographical methods.

Author : Barbara Merrill,Linden West
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412929592

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Using Biographical Methods in Social Research by Barbara Merrill,Linden West Pdf

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.

Author : Robert Lee Miller
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999-09-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446235577

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Researching Life Stories and Family Histories by Robert Lee Miller Pdf

`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 Specifically designed for those carrying out biographical, life history or family history research, this concise guide covers the methods and issues involved. The author demonstrates that biographical research is a distinctive way of conceptualizing social activity. The three main approaches to biographical and family history research are covered: - Realist - focused around grounded-theory techniques of interviewing; - Neo-positivist - more structured interview techniques; - Narrative - with emphasis on the active construction of life stories through the interplay between interviewer and interviewee. An invaluable introduction to the field, which contains much that will be of interest to the experienced practitioner, the book will be ideal for researchers in sociology, psychology, political science, social policy or anthropology.

Author : Jason Hughes,John Goodwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1446257290

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BUNDLE by Jason Hughes,John Goodwin Pdf

Author : Christine Bold
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-03
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781446291375

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Using Narrative in Research by Christine Bold Pdf

Using Narrative in Research by Christine Bold provides an accessible, easy-to-understand guide to the theory and practice of the use of narrative in research. Written with those new to narrative in mind, this book will enable readers to understand the origins of narrative traditions and to plan and carry out a narrative study of their own. Christine Bold′s book examines narrative approaches across a range of research contexts and disciplinary boundaries and will be of equal value to practitioners and academic students and researchers alike. Drawing on a range of real-life examples of narrative studies, Using Narrative in Research will enable readers to provide a sound justification for adopting a narrative-based approach and will help them to write about and write up narrative in research. This book examines: • How we design research projects with a narrative approach • Ethics • Narrative thinking • Collecting narrative data • Analysing narrative data • Representation in narrative analysis • Reporting and writing up narrative research.

Author : Norman K. Denzin
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1989-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803933592

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Interpretive Biography by Norman K. Denzin Pdf

'Interpretive Biography' combines one of the oldest techniques in the social sciences and humanities with one of the newest. Bringing in elements of postmodernism and interpretive social science, it re-examines the biographical and autobiographical genres.

Author : Clive Seale
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1412934206

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Qualitative Research Practice by Clive Seale Pdf

`This comprehensive collection of almost 40 chapters - each written by a leading expert in the field - is the essential reference for anyone undertaking or studying qualitative research. It covers a diversity of methods and a variety of perspectives and is a very practical and informative guide for newcomers and experienced researchers alike' - John Scott, University of Essex `The best ways in which to understand the issues and processes informing qualitative research is to learn from the accounts of its leading practitioners. Here they come together in what is a distinctive and wide-ranging collection that will appeal to postgraduates and social researchers in general' - Tim May, University of Salford `This excellent guide engages in a dialogue with a wide range of expert qualitative researchers, each of whom considers their own practice in an illuminating and challenging way. Overall, the book constitutes an authoritative survey of current methods of qualitative research data collection and analysis' - Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey Learning to do good qualitative research occurs most fortuitously by seeing what researchers actually do in particular projects and by incorporating their procedures and strategies into one's own research practice. This is one of the most powerful and pragmatic ways of bringing to bear the range of qualitative methodological perspectives available. The chapters in this important new volume are written by leading, internationally distinguished qualitative researchers who recount and reflect on their own research experiences as well as others, past and present, from whom they have learned. It demonstrates the benefits of using particular methods from the viewpoint of real-life experience. From the outside, good research seems to be produced through practitioners learning and following standard theoretical, empiric

Author : Barbara Merrill,Linden West
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446204481

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Using Biographical Methods in Social Research by Barbara Merrill,Linden West Pdf

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 as well as reflections on the personal experience of doing research. Barbara Merrill and Linden West consider important questions about who and what research is for and what makes it valid, alongside the practical business of interviewing, transcribing, 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 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, health care and education.

Author : Ana Caetano,Magda Nico
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000564778

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Biographical Research by Ana Caetano,Magda Nico Pdf

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.

Author : Sheila Henderson
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 1412930693

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Inventing Adulthoods by Sheila Henderson Pdf

This text is written through case studies and interviews.

Author : Michael R. Hill
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1993-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781506349749

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Archival Strategies and Techniques by Michael R. Hill Pdf

Historical and biographical work is becoming a more common type of qualitative research done by social scientists and usually requires the extensive use of formal archives housed in universities, governments, museums and other institutions. This practical and concise book provides an introduction for the novice on conducting archival research and covers such topics as contacting and preparing to work in archives, the protocol of using archives, and ways of organizing and referencing the useful data from the archive.

Author : Aleksandra Marcinkiewicz
Publisher : Aleksander Kobylarek
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-20
Category : Gerontology
ISBN : 9788362618149

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Around of seniors’ memories. The biographical research on the educational paths of European seniors by Aleksandra Marcinkiewicz Pdf

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