Interpretive Biography (Qualitative Research Methods) - Softcover

Denzin, Norman K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803933592 ISBN 13: 9780803933590

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1989

Synopsis

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 reexamines the biographical and autobiographical genres. In addition, the book outlines a new way in which biographies should be conceptualized and shaped.

About this title

About the Author:

Norman K. Denzin, Distinguished Emeritus Research Professor of Communications, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author, coauthor, or coeditor of over 50 books and 200 professional articles and chapters. He is the past president of The Midwest Sociological Society and the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. He is the founding president of the International Association of Qualitative Inquiry (2005–) and director of the International Center of Qualitative Inquiry (2005–). He is a past editor of The Sociological Quarterly, founding coeditor of Qualitative Inquiry, and founding editor of Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies, International Review of Qualitative Research, and Studies in Symbolic Interaction: A Research Annual.

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0803933592
• ISBN 13: 9780803933590
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96