Life Histories and the Creation of New Ways of Doing Sociology. A Review Article

Autor:	Lois Kuter
Rok vydání:	1984
Předmět:	Subjectivity History Sociology and Political Science Sociology Life history Social science Object (philosophy) Epistemology
Zdroj:	Comparative Studies in Society and History. 26:345-351
ISSN:	1475-2999 0010-4175
DOI:	10.1017/s0010417500010951
Popis:	In a special number of Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie devoted to the collection of life histories,' Frangoise Morin of the Universite de Toulouse asks why French sociologists have only recently discovered the life history as a means of understanding cultures and the researcher's place in the study of them (Morin 1980: 317). Morin proposes that the use of life histories has been essentially a North American tradition, suggesting that the inherent subjectivity and lack of distance of the researcher from the "object" of study have frightened away French anthropologists and sociologists who have been for the most part in search of structures and objective categories. A recent upsurge of interest in life histories on the part of French social
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