'I'd rather you ask me because I/I/I don't really know, you know' : the dilemma of (auto)biographical interviewing in biographical research /
As social researchers, we are expected to be methodical in our approach to researching social life. We ground ourselves in reading about the experience of other researchers. The title of this case is a response the author had from a participant asked to tell her life story. This case is a story of t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[Los Angeles, California] :
SAGE,
2014.
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| Series: | SAGE research methods. Cases.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | As social researchers, we are expected to be methodical in our approach to researching social life. We ground ourselves in reading about the experience of other researchers. The title of this case is a response the author had from a participant asked to tell her life story. This case is a story of the particular challenges encountered using this biographical method of investigation, and it is also a lesson, to be cautious about taking advice from theory at face value and sticking to the rules. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781473929913 1473929911 |