Documents of Life 2: An Invitation to A Critical HumanismDocuments 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
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Documents of Life 2: An Invitation to A Critical Humanism, Volume 2 Ken Plummer Limited preview - 2001 |
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