Content preview from Qualitative Research: An Introduction to Methods and DesignsKey Ideas
- Many of the most influential theories in the field of psychology had their origins in biography and life story research.
- Biography and life story research can have the goal of theory development or of testing theory and general concepts about persons and lives.
- Historically biography and life story research has been a form of single case study research, although more contemporary research uses multiple cases as well as critical life episodes collected from a large number of participants.
- Steps followed in biography and life story research vary across researchers, but there are a few scholars who have developed data collection tools, analytic methods, and coding schemes that are guided by thematic content analysis and are widely available ...
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ISBN: 9781118118832