Norman denzin interpretive biography of christopher
The interpretive biographical method, as indicated in the preface, involves the studied use and collection of personal-life documents, stories, accounts, and..
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Like all writing, biographies are interpretive. They require no less than organizing into text the chaos of human existence. Interpretive Biography Norman 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 reexamines the biographical and autobiographical genres. The book points up the inherent weaknesses in traditional biographical forms, and outlines a new way in which biographies should be conceptualized and shaped.
Top Norman K. Denzin titles ; The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research ; Interpretive Autoethnography (Qualitative Research Methods).
With numerous examples taken from his own work and those of past biographies, this practical volume makes provocative reading for all social scientists.
"I believe most sociologists will find this work useful because of several contributions.
Of particular merit here is the development of the sociological enterprise along lines of the ''sociological imagination.'' Denzin not only adds to the Mills tradition, b
