Using biographical methods in social research /
Merrill, Barbara
Using biographical methods in social research / Barbara Merrill and Linden West - Los Angeles : Sage, 2009 - xi, 211 p. 24 cm
Using Biographical Methods in Social Research provides an informative, comprehensive, accessible and practical guide to the nature and use of biographical methods, combining a consideration of theoretical issues with practical guidance. Barbara Merrill and Linden West consider important questions about what research is for, what makes it valid, to the practical business of interviewing, analyzing and writing up of biographical data. The authors draw on their sociological and psychological orientations to provide a truly interdisciplinary approach to the subject, and provide numerous examples of biographical research across the social sciences.
9781412929585
Social sciences--Biographical methods.
300.722 / MER
Using biographical methods in social research / Barbara Merrill and Linden West - Los Angeles : Sage, 2009 - xi, 211 p. 24 cm
Using Biographical Methods in Social Research provides an informative, comprehensive, accessible and practical guide to the nature and use of biographical methods, combining a consideration of theoretical issues with practical guidance. Barbara Merrill and Linden West consider important questions about what research is for, what makes it valid, to the practical business of interviewing, analyzing and writing up of biographical data. The authors draw on their sociological and psychological orientations to provide a truly interdisciplinary approach to the subject, and provide numerous examples of biographical research across the social sciences.
9781412929585
Social sciences--Biographical methods.
300.722 / MER