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Interpretive Biography

Volume: 17
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Qualitative Research
96 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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Like all writing, biographies are interpretive. They require no less than organizing into text the chaos of human existence. In Interpretive Biography Denzin combines one of the oldest techniques in the social sciences and humanities with one of the newest. Bringing in elements of postmodernism and interpretive social science, he re-examines the biographical and autobiographical genres. In addition, the book outlines a new way in which biographies should be conceptualized and shaped.
 
Assumptions of the Method
 
A Clarification of Terms
 
Interpretive Guidelines
 
Selves, Stories and Experiences
 
In Conclusion
Representing Lives

 

Prof Denzin gives practical examples of biographies and then reviews them in an academic fashion. This is highly effective and very useful for the novice thesis writer.

Mr Nick Purkis
Interprofessional Studies, Winchester University
August 30, 2013
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Norman K. Denzin

Norman K. Denzin is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Communications, College of Communications Scholar, and Research Professor of Communications, Sociology, and Humanities at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. One of the world’s foremost authorities on qualitative research and cultural criticism, he is the author or editor of more than 30 books, including The Qualitative Manifesto; Qualitative Inquiry Under Fire; Reading Race; Interpretive Ethnography; The Cinematic Society; The Alcoholic Self; and a trilogy on the American West. He is past editor of The Sociological Quarterly, co-editor of six editions of the... More About Author

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