Bertaux Life Stories

A Sociological Approach
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-4473-8010-8
Verlag: Policy Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Advances in Biographical Research

Drawing on decades of pioneering research – including his celebrated study of Parisian family-run bakeries – Daniel Bertaux demonstrates how asking participants to narrate the concrete details of their daily work reveals the tacit knowledge, relationships and processes that sustain entire ways of life.

Clear, rigorous and richly illustrated, Life Stories equips readers with the theoretical grounding and practical tools to integrate this method into their own research. It shows how to collect, analyse and present life stories, from single-case investigations to comparative studies, demonstrating their power to illuminate broader social realities.

First published in French in 1998, Bertaux’s classic text has been translated into several languages but has never been made available to English-speaking audiences. This new and updated English edition will help sociologists in the English-speaking world gain deeper insight into the lived experiences that shape our societies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bertaux, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword – Paul Thompson

Chapter One – The ethnographic-sociological perspective

Chapter Two – About Life Stories

Chapter Three – Three functions of life stories

Chapter Four – Collecting life stories

Chapter Five – Case by case analysis

Chapter Six – Comparative analysis

Chapter Seven – Formatting and writing

Chapter Eight - Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Bertaux, Daniel
Daniel Bertaux is a French sociologist. Beginning his career in 1967, as full-time Researcher in Sociology at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), he has worked with Raymond Aron, Pierre Bourdieu, Raymond Boudon, Alain Touraine and Robert Castel among others. Since 2005, he has been affiliated with the French German Research Group MIGREVAL (https://hypotheses.org) at the University of Strasbourg.