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 APPROACHESBiographical 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