John Goodwin 
SAGE Biographical Research [PDF ebook] 

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.

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VOLUME ONE: BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH: STARTING POINTS, DEBATES AND APPROACHES

Biographical Method – Louis Smith

The Auto/Biographical Society – Ken Plummer

Assumptions of the Method – Norman Denzin

A Biographical Turn in the Social Sciences? A British-European View – Tom Wengraf, Prue Chamberlayne and Joanna Bornat

On Auto/Biography in Sociology – Liz Stanley

Weaving Stories – Pamela Cotterill and Gayle Letherby

Personal Auto/Biographies in Feminist Research

Autobiography, Intimacy and Ethnography – Deborah Reed-Danahay

Practising Sociological Imagination through Writing Sociological Autobiography – Alem Kebede

The Interpretation of Documents and Material Culture – Ian Hodder

Observing Culture and Social Life – Gregory Stanczak

Documentary Photography, Fieldwork and Social Research

Repositioning Documents in Social Research – Lindsay Prior

Oral History – Joanna Bornat

Oral and Life History – Julie Mc Leod and Rachel Thomson

What Is Narrative Research? – Molly Andrews, Corinne Squire and Maria Tamboukou

The Narrative Potential of the British Birth Cohort Studies – Jane Elliott

Qualitative Longitudinal Research – Julie Mc Leod and Rachel Thomson

Text, Context and Individual Meaning – Consuelo Corradi

Rethinking Life Stories in a Hermeneutic Framework

Analytic Auto-Ethnography – Leon Anderson

Auto-Ethnography in Vocational Psychology – Peter Mc Ilveen et al

Wearing Your Class on Your Sleeve

VOLUME TWO: BIOGRAPHICAL INTERVIEWS, ORAL HISTORIES AND LIFE NARRATIVES

Securing Biographical Experience – Norman Denzin

Collecting Life Histories – Robert Miller

Narrative Methodologies – Liz Stanley and Bogusia Temple

Subjects, Silences, Re-Readings and Analyses

Madness to the Method? Using a Narrative Methodology to Analyze Large-Scale Complex Social Phenomena – Liz Stanley

Narrating Life Stories in between the Fictional and the Autobiographical – Maarit Leskelä-Kärki

Among the Chosen – Thomas Barone

A Collaborative Educational (Auto)biography

Bodies, Narratives, Selves and Autobiography – Andrew Sparkes

The Example of Lance Armstrong

Growing up with a Lesbian Mother – Carrie Paechter

A Theoretically Based Analysis of Personal Experience

Researching Groups of Lives – Diana Jones

A Collective Biographical Perspective on the Protestant Ethic Debate

Developing Narrative Research in Supportive and Palliative Care – Amanda Bingley et al

The Focus on Illness Narratives

The Life History Interview Method – Roberta Goldman et al

Applications to Intervention Development

Life Stories and Social Careers – Robin Humphrey

Ageing and Social Life in an Ex-Mining Town

The Written Life History as a Prime Research Tool in Adult Education – Catharine Warren

Looking Back, Looking Forward – Susan Feldman and Linsey Howie

Reflections on Using a Life History Review Tool with Older People

Emplacing the Research Encounter – Mark Riley

Exploring Farm Life Histories

′Hidden Ethnography′ – Shane Blackman

Crossing Emotional Borders in Qualitative Accounts of Young People′s Lives

′We′re Not Ethnic, We′re Irish!′ – Jennifer Clary-Lemon

Oral Histories and the Discursive Construction of Immigrant Identity

Neighborhood Planning – June Manning Thomas

Uses of Oral History

Reminiscing Television – Jukka Kortti and Tuuli Anna Mähönen

Media Ethnography, Oral History and Finnish Third Generation Media History

Consent in Oral History Interviews – Geertje Boschma, Olive Yonge and Lorraine Mychajlunow

Unique Challenges

Who Do We Think We Are? Self and Reflexivity in Social Work Practice – Avril Butler, Deirdre Ford and Claire Tregaskis

Statistical Stories? The Use of Narrative in Quantitative Analysis – Jane Elliot

VOLUME THREE: OTHER FORMS OF LIFE WRITING: LETTERS, DIARIES AND AUTO/BIOGRAPHY

Shadows Lying across Her Pages – Liz Stanley

Epistolary Aspects of Reading ′The Eventful I′ in Olive Schreiner′s Letters

Sociological Imaginings and Imagining Sociology – David Morgan

Bodies, Auto/Biographies and Other Mysteries

Letters to a Young Baller – Megan Chawansky

Exploring Epistolary Criticism

Introduction 2. ′Anxiously Yours′: The Epistolary Self and the Culture of Concern – Nicky Hallett

The Epistolary Self and the Culture of Concern

Do Their Words Really Matter? Thematic Analysis of U.S. and Latin American CEO Letters – Roger Conaway and William Wardrope

Constructing Personal Identities in Holiday Letters – Stephen Banks, Esther Louie and Martha Einerson

Five Holiday Letters – Stephen Banks

A Fiction

Dear Shit-Shovellers – Sharon Lockyer and Michael Pickering

Humour, Censure and the Discourse of Complaint

Guidelines for Quality in Autobiographical Forms of Self-Study Research – Robert Bullough Jr. and Stefinee Pinnegar

Wole Soyinka and Autobiography as Political Unconscious – Ato Quayson

Researching Diaries – Andy Alaszweski

Getting Started – Andy Alaszweski

Finding Diarists and Diaries

Public and Private Meanings in Diaries – Linda Bell

Researching Family and Child Care

The Personal Is Political – Lauri Hyers, Janet Swim and Robyn Mallett

Using Daily Diaries to Examine Everyday Prejudice-Related Experiences

Recalling the Letter – John Duffy

The Uses of Oral Testimony in Historical Studies of Literacy

Meaning of Work in Dalit Autobiographies – Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay

Two Hours or More away from Most Things – James Haywood Rolling, Jr. and Lace Marie Brogden

Re-Writing Identities from No Fixed Address

VOLUME FOUR: OTHER DOCUMENTS OF LIFE: PHOTOGRAPHS, CYBER DOCUMENTS AND EPHEMERA

Families, Secrets and Memories – Carol Smart

Accessories to a Life Story – Ken Plummer

From Written Diaries to Video Diaries

The Virtual Objects of Ethnography – Christine Hine

Kin-to-Be – Christine Hegel-Cantarella

Betrothal, Legal Documents and Reconfiguring Relational Obligations in Egypt

′Freshly Generated for You, and Barack Obama′ – Jill Walker Rettberg

How Social Media Represent Your Life

History, Living Biography and Self-Narrative – Shay Sayre

Moving Stories – Nicola Ross et al

Using Mobile Methods to Explore the Everyday Lives of Young People in Public Care

′Entering the Blogosphere′ – Nicholas Hookway

Some Strategies for Using Blogs in Social Research

Fieldnotes in Public – Nina Wakeford and Kris Cohen

Using Blogs for Research

Visual Storytelling – Sarah Drew, Rony Duncan and Susan Sawyer

A Beneficial but Challenging Method for Health Research with Young People

Beyond the Standard Interview – Anna Bagnoli

The Use of Graphic Elicitation and Arts-Based Methods

Prison Tattoos as a Reflection of the Criminal Lifestyle – Alicia Rozycki et al

Something to Show for It – Christine Wall

The Place of Mementoes in Women′s Oral Histories of Work

′Goods, Chattels and Sundry Items′ – Swati Chattopadhyay

Constructing 19th-Century Anglo-Indian Domestic Life

Self-Enhancement or Self-Coherence? Why People Shift Visual Perspective in Mental Images of the Personal Past and Future – Lisa Libby and Richard Eibach

Inner-City Children in Sharper Focus – Gregory Stanczak

Sociology of Childhood and Photo Elicitation Interviews

Video in Ethnographic Research – Sarah Pink

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John Goodwin is a Professor of Sociology and Sociological Practice at the University of Leicester. As a sociologist, John has a broad range of research interests including education to work transitions, sociological research methods, and the history of sociology. He is a recognized expert on the life and sociology of Pearl Jephcott, and he also has a significant interest in the works of Norbert Elias, C. Wright Mills, and Stanley Milgram. In terms of his sociological practice, John has expertise in qualitative secondary analysis, restudies, biographical methods, and the use of unconventional data sources in sociological research.