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Interpretive Life History Research

Interpretive life history research is a qualitative design in which the researcher and participant collaboratively construct a detailed account of the participant's entire life course — or a significant portion of it — and then interpret that account to understand how identity, context, and meaning-making unfold over time. Grounded in an interpretive epistemology, it treats the narrator's life story not as a neutral record of facts but as a meaning-laden construction shaped by culture, social position, and lived experience.

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Sources

  1. Cole, A. L., & Knowles, J. G. (2001). Lives in Context: The Art of Life History Research. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759101302
  2. Bertaux, D. (Ed.). (1981). Biography and Society: The Life History Approach in the Social Sciences. Sage. ISBN: 978-0803998254

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