Sage Biographical Research

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 McLeod 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 McLeod 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 McIlveen 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 Leskela-Karki 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 Mahonen 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