Preface to the Fully Revised and Expanded Edition -- For a Humanistic Way in Social Science -- Sighting A Diversity of Life Stories -- From Resource to Topic -- Accessories to a Life Story -- From Written Diaries to Video Diaries -- The Auto//Biographical Society -- 'Chicago' and the Making of a Sociological Method -- Getting and Doing Life Stories -- Thinking about Life History 'Data' -- Writing Life Stories -- Life Stories and the Narrative Turn -- The Moral and Human Face of Life Stories -- Reflexivity, Power and Ethics -- Truth, Value and Memory in Life Stories -- Epilogue -- Critical Humanism in a Postmodern World

1. Sociology -- Biographical methods
2. Social sciences -- Biographical methods