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Editorial: Biographical Methods in Migration Research [PDF]

During the last decades, qualitative biographical/narrative methods gained a prominent position within the spectrum of social science methodology and research practice, mainly due to a reaction to the positivist-empiricist domi-nance and associated views
DEBORAH SPORTON, THEODOROS IOSIFIDES
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Biographical research [PDF]

, 2009
It is now more than twenty years since I first came across biographical research in connection with my doctoral thesis. It was a time when this approach was beginning to re-establish itself after half a century, in German sociology in particular but also
Rosenthal, Gabriele
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Review: Vico Leuchte (2011). Landkommunen in Ostdeutschland. Lebensgeschichten, Identitätsentfaltung und Sozialwelt [Communes in East Germany. Life Stories, Identity and the Social World]

Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2012
In the early 1990s East Germany was characterized by massive social and individual changes. During this period numerous communes were founded as a social experiment to establish an alternative way of life. Since free formation had been harshly restricted
Julia Böcker, Alexander Leistner
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The Reconstruction of Meaning. The State of the Art in German Interpretive Sociology

Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2002
The common epistemological goal of interpretive sociology is the reconstruction of meaning (sense). The basic internal differences appear clearly in the theoretical answers to the question how meaning is original constituted. Within German sociology four
Ronald Hitzler
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Discursive and Biographical Construction of Political Enemies: Communists in the early Federal Republic of Germany

Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2011
This article, based on empirical findings of a research project, chronicles those people who were sanctioned by political criminal law in the 50s and 60s of the last century. This example of West German Communists shows that they were not only seen to be
Martina Schiebel
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Discourse Analysis and Biographical Research. About the How and Why of Subject Positions

Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2007
Recent reflections on governmentality studies which are based on Michel FOUCAULT, ascertain new forms of subjectivation within the frame of new (neoliberal) rationalities of government.
Elisabeth Tuider
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Free Telling in the Total Space?—On the Procedures of Power in the Asylum Procedure and Their Relevance for Biographical Interviews of Refugees

Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2009
Based on a research project with migrants from Iran this paper focuses on the influence of a strictly regulated German asylum life situation on autobiographical telling in research contexts.
Marc Thielen
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The Reconstruction of Meaning. Notes on German Interpretive Sociology

Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2005
The epistemological goal of interpretive sociology is the reconstruction of meaning. The basic internal differences appear clearly in the theoretical answers to the question as to where meaning is originally constituted. Within German sociology four main
Ronald Hitzler
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Biographical Research and Historical Watersheds [PDF]

The life history or biographical research method was popular in the early decades of the twentieth century and, after a period of eclipse caused by the rise of quantitative methods, is enjoying a resurgence of interest.
Zdravomyslova E, Humphrey R, Miller R
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Biographical Discovery, Affirmation, and Disruption: Trans and Nonbinary Peoples' Experiences Negotiating Gender and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. [PDF]

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McGhee A, Arthur A.
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