1st Edition
Biographical Research Challenges and Creativity
Foreword
Ken Plummer
1. Forever young: creative responses to challenging issues in biographical research
Ana Caetano and Magda Nico
Part 1: The Production of Social Theory Through and Beyond the Biography’s Singularity
2. Sociological biography and socialisation process: a dispositionalist-contextualist conception
Bernard Lahire
3. Tapping and assessing the concept of educational regret: methodological techniques for opening up biographical reflection
Pamela Aronson and Matthew Fleming
4. Subjects analysing subjects in the biographical approach: a generational study of Chilean musicians
Camila Moyano Dávila and Francisca Ortiz Ruiz
Part 2: Methodological Rivalries, Affairs and Openness
5. Using reflexive lifelines in biographical interviews to aid the collection, visualisation and analysis of resilience
Jane Gray and Jennifer Dag
6. Self-administered event history calendars: a possibility for surveys?
Davide Morselli, Jean-Marie Le Goff and Jacques-Antoine Gauthier
7. There is more than one way – a study of mixed analytical methods in biographical narrative research
Marta Eichsteller
Part 3: Giving the Floor, Sharing Voices, Creating Harmonies
8. Creative biographical responses to epistemological and methodological challenges in generating a deaf life story telling instrument
Goedele A. M. De Clerck
9. Migrants’ lives matter: biographical research, recognition and social participation
Elsa Lechner
10. Facilitating the voice of disabled women: the biographic narrative interpretive method (BNIM) in action
Christine Peta, Tom Wengraf and Judith McKenzie
Part 4: The Social Unfolding of Individual Lives
11. Searching for pearls: ‘Doing’ biographical research on Pearl Jephcott
John Goodwin
12. A moment of biographical analysis under the microscope: reading Felipe’s autobiographical narrative
Me-Linh Hannah Riemann
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 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.
