The turn to biographical methods in social science : comparative issues and examples / edited by Prue Chamberlayne, Joanna Bornat and Tom Wengraf
Imprint
London : Routledge, c2000
Descript
xvii, 346 p. ; 22 cm
CONTENT
Issues of methodology and theory: biographical analysis: a German school? ; Biographical work and biographical structuring in present-day societies -- Example of biographical methods in use: Biographical, anxiety and the experience of locality ; Texts in a changing context: reconstructing lives in East Germany ; Situated selves, the coming-out genre and equivalent citizenship in narratives of HIV ; The metamorphosis of habitus among East Germans ; Single mothers and Berlin life-styles: a new mode of social reproduction