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Documents of life 2 : an invitation to a critical humanism

This study champions the use of life stories and other personal documents in social research. It considers recent developments in the humanist approach to social research, looking at writing and narrative, memory, and the auto/biographical society
Print Book, English, 2001
Sage Publications, London, 2001
Lebensdaten
xii, 306 pages ; 24 cm
9780761961314, 9780761961321, 0761961313, 0761961321
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Preface to the Fully Revised and Expanded Edition
For a Humanistic Way in Social Science
Sighting A Diversity of Life Stories
From Resource to Topic
Accessories to a Life Story
From Written Diaries to Video Diaries
The Auto//Biographical Society
'Chicago' and the Making of a Sociological Method
Getting and Doing Life Stories
Thinking about Life History 'Data'
Writing Life Stories
Life Stories and the Narrative Turn
The Moral and Human Face of Life Stories
Reflexivity, Power and Ethics
Truth, Value and Memory in Life Stories
Epilogue
Critical Humanism in a Postmodern World
"Fully revised and expanded edition of Documents of life"--Preface