Experienced life and narrated life story: gestalt and structure of biographical self-presentations

Biographical note: Gabriele Rosenthal ist emeritierte Professorin für Qualitative Methoden an der Sozialwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Göttingen.

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Main Author: Rosenthal, Gabriele 1954- (Author)
Other Authors: Schubert, Ruth (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Frankfurt ; New York Campus Verlag 2024
Edition:Revised and enlarged edition
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Online Access:DE-B1533
DE-863
DE-862
DE-739
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Summary:Biographical note: Gabriele Rosenthal ist emeritierte Professorin für Qualitative Methoden an der Sozialwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Göttingen.
How do people narrate events in their life story and in the history of their family or families when making a self-presentation? How are narratives and experiences in the present related to experiences and narratives in the past? This book answers these questions with a theoretical and empirical study of the interconnections between remembering, experiencing, and presenting what was experienced, at different points of the life course and of the associated collective histories. It also discusses rules for conducting interviews that support processes of remembering, and for carrying out an analysis that does justice to this dialectic. The author exploits ideas from phenomenology and Gestalt theory in this book, which has become a classic. Since its first publication in 1995, she has increasingly taken inspiration from the figurational sociology of Norbert Elias. Accordingly, this English edition contains a new introduction and a new chapter on this later expansion of her approach to sociological biographical research.
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 257-279
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (279 Seiten)
ISBN:9783593457482
9783593457475