A Joint Project Against the Backdrop of a Research Tradition: An Introduction into "Doing Biographical Research"

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is twofold: It reconstructs the development of a joint endeavor of a group of social scientists trying to make their specific approaches of doing biographical research visible by focusing on one particular autobiographical narrative interview: the interview with a female labor migrant from Turkey living in a German city. The data were collected in a student research project of the late Christa HOFFMANN-RIEM. The product of this endeavor is this issue of "Forum: Qualitative Social Research"—a preliminary product since readers are invited to take part in the analysis of this interview, the transcription of which is made available to them (in the original German version and an English translation as well) and to offer their interpretations and critical comments in the future. In addition to this the reconstruction of this endeavor is placed in the context of research connected with Fritz SCHÜTZE, which initially led to the development of this type of intervie.... https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/666

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: A Joint Project Against the Backdrop of a Research Tradition: An Introduction into "Doing Biographical Research" ; volume:4 ; number:3 ; day:30 ; month:09 ; year:2003 ; Forum qualitative Sozialforschung ; 4, Heft 3 (30.09.2003)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Riemann, Gerhard

Further information

• DOI: 10.17169/fqs-4.3.666
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0303185
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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