Biography Analysis on the Empirical Base of Autobiographical Narratives:

Care leavers as helpers: Motivations for and benefits of helping others

“…The autobiographical interview (Schütze, 2007a(Schütze, , 2007b was used for data collection. The autobiographical interview makes use of the skills people use in everyday life to communicate with other people about their lives in the form of narratives; it calls on participants to make impromptu reports about their life.…”

Bourdieu, Habitus and Social Research

“…The BNIM falls within the larger tradition of biographical research (Merrill and West, 2009;Miller, 2000); however, its specific approach to data collection has been developed and refined largely by Rosenthal (2003Rosenthal ( , 2005 and Schütze (1992Schütze ( , 2008, and there are three sub-sessions when carrying out an interview with the BNIM:…”

Cursos migratórios e novas circularidades: migrantes da África Ocidental no Sul do Brasil

“…Nossa investigação se deu a partir de um paradigma de pesquisa social interpretativa (Hoffmann-Riem, 1980) e foi fundamentada na sociologia do conhecimento (Berger, Luckmann, 1991), na sociologia de orientação fenomenológica (Schütz, 1963) e na sociologia dos processos e figurações (Elias, 1991). Os métodos utilizados para geração e análise de dados foram o de entrevista narrativa biográfica (Schütze, 2008;Rosenthal, 2014), reconstrução de caso biográfico (Rosenthal, 2014) e observação participante (Spradley, 1980), e implementamos uma lógica circular do processo de geração e análise de dados (Glaser, Strauss, 1967)…”