Documents of Life 2: An Invitation to A Critical Humanism

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SAGE, Dec 28, 2000 - Social Science - 320 pages
Documents of Life was originally published in 1983 and became a classic text, providing both a persuasive argument for a particular approach and a manifesto for social research. As a critique of anti-humanist methodology in the social sciences, it championed the use of life stories and other personal documents in research which are now widely used today. This book is a substantially revised and expanded version which takes on recent developments.

Providing numerous illustrations from a range of life documents, the book traces the history of the method, examines ways of 'doing life story' research, and discusses the many political and ethical issues raised by such research. The whole book has been substantially re-written and

 

Contents

For a Humanistic Way in Social Science
1
Sighting a Diversity of Life Stories From Resource to Topic
17
Accesories to a Life Story From Written Diaries to Video Diaries
48
The AutoBiographical Society
78
Chicago and the Making of a Sociological Method
103
Getting and Doing Life Stories
118
Thinking about Life History Data
149
Writing Life Stories
168
Life Stories and the Narrative Turn
185
The Moral and Human Face of Life Stories Reflexivity Power and Ethics
204
Truth Value and Memory in Life Stories
232
Epilogue Critical Humanism in a Postmodern World
255
Bibliography
270
Key Names and Titles Index
299
Subject Index
303
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