ISBN:
9780739113110
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (133 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version On the Science of Uncertainty : The Biographical Method in Social Research
DDC:
303.072
Keywords:
Sociology -- Biographical methods
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Franco Ferrarotti hopes to lead sociologists away from overly reductionistic, technical measurement of their subjects_an approach that has increasingly been problematized by the natural sciences_toward a rediscovery of (auto)biographical materials and the value of the individual
Description / Table of Contents:
Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 - A Sociological Methodology as the Technique of Listening; THE "PERIODIC" NATURE AND THE UNPREDICTABILITY OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR; TIME AND CONCEPTUAL SCHEME; A NONHISTORICIST HISTORICITY; HISTORY AS COLLECTIVE MEMORY; NOTES; 2 - The Quality of the Everyday and the Practice of Life; HISTORY "FROM BELOW"; THE PERSISTING "SEPARATENESS" OF SOCIOLOGY; LIFE HISTORY AS BASIC METHOD; BIOGRAPHY AND CONTEXT; STAGES OF AN INTELLECTUAL ITINERARY; NOTES; 3 - Biography as Interaction; THE AUTONOMY OF THE BIOGRAPHICAL METHOD
Description / Table of Contents:
FROM THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE INDIVIDUAL TO THAT OF THE GROUP: PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVESBIOGRAPHY AND SOCIETY; HUMAN PRACTICE AS TOTALIZING PRACTICE; NOTES; 4 - The Social Nature of the Individual; FIRST ELEMENTS OF A "RELATIONAL DIALECTIC"; THE FIELD OF SOCIAL MEDIATIONS; THE BIOGRAPHY OF THE PRIMARY GROUP; THE INDIVIDUAL IS NOT A SOCIAL ATOM; NOTES; 5 - The Symmetrical Limits of Naturalistic Objectivism and Psychologism; THE INTERACTIVE PHASE; THE SPONTANEISTIC IRRATIONALISM OF THE NEO-HERACLITANS; GROUP BIOGRAPHY IS NOT GROUP THERAPY
Description / Table of Contents:
THE DEATH OF SUBJECTIVITY IN THE NAME OF ITS REEVALUATIONNOTES; 6 - The Specificity of the Biographical Method: From Naturalistic Social Research to "Joint" Research; A DOUBLE REQUIREMENT; THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL IMPOVERISHMENT OF THE BIOGRAPHICAL METHOD; THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL WAGER; THE SPECIFICITY OF THE BIOGRAPHICAL METHOD: "JOINT" RESEARCH AND ITS METHODICAL PROBLEMS; NOTES; Index; About the Author
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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