Biographical research | Wikipedia audio article

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00:02:17 1 History of Biographical Research
00:03:19 1.1 Biography as a form of access to larger groupings
00:05:48 1.2 Recent Biographical Research
00:08:36 2 Methods and Limitations of the Biographical Research
00:08:48 2.1 Individual Cases and Inductive Generalizations
00:11:10 2.2 Experienced Life History and Narrated Life Story (ierlebte und erzählte Lebensgeschichte/i)
00:13:38 2.3 Reconstruction of the Latent Structures of Meaning



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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 of sources. These documents are evaluated and interpreted according to specific rules and criteria. The starting point for this approach is the understanding of an individual biography in terms of its social constitution. The biographical approach was influenced by the symbolic interactionism, the phenomenological sociology of knowledge (Alfred Schütz, Peter L. Berger, and Thomas Luckmann), and ethnomethodology (Harold Garfinkel). Therefore, biography is understood in terms of a social construct and the reconstruction of biographies can give insight on social processes and figurations (as in Norbert Elias), thus helping to bridge the gap between micro-, meso-, and macro- levels of analysis. The biographical approach is particularly important in German sociology. This approach is used in the Social Sciences as well as in Pedagogy and other disciplines. The Research Committee 38 "Biography and Society" of the International Sociological Association (ISA) was created in 1984 and is dedicated "to help develop a better understanding of the relations between individual lives, the social structures and historical processes within which they take shape and which they contribute to shape, and the individual accounts of biographical experience (such as life stories or autobiographies)".