"This fascinating collection examines relationships between alcohol, age and generation and illustrates how people across the life course actively construct their identities through drinking narratives (or sobriety stories), and how attitudes to drinking mirror changing power re…
Biographical methods combine a focus on lifetime individual experience as a component of understanding human agency with an examination of interactions with social structures & institutions. This text provides examples of how such approaches have been applied in practice setting…
The turn to biographical methods in social science is yielding a rich harvest of research outcomes and invigorating the relationship between policy and practice. This book uses a range of interpretive approaches to reveal the dynamics of service users' and professionals' individ…
La obra comienza contextualizando la historia de vida en su paradigma más inmediato, el cualitativo, y dentro de éste, la investigación crítica o emancipadora, a través de la metodología biográfico-narrativa. Posteriormente, describe las formas de hacer investigación narrativa, …
Este libro, centrado en un modo narrativo de conocimiento, opta por la historia de vida como metodología cualitativa de investigación. Comienza contextualizando la historia de vida en su paradigma más inmediato, el cualitativo, y, dentro de este, la investigación crítica o emanc…
Bringing together content from across the social sciences, this collection assembles only the very best articles and chapters published by SAGE in the area of biographical research.