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	ビジュアル想起型バイオグラフィカル・リサーチ	Biographical Research
分野	質的手法	質的手法
系統	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
提唱年	1990s–2000s (synthesis of older traditions)	Late 19th–early 20th century (Dilthey ~1883; Thomas & Znaniecki 1918–1920)
提唱者	Douglas Harper (photo elicitation); Ken Plummer, Daniel Bertaux (biographical tradition); integrated by visual qualitative researchers in the 1990s–2000s	Wilhelm Dilthey (hermeneutic foundations); Thomas & Znaniecki (sociological application); Norman Denzin (interpretive biography)
種類	Qualitative research design	Qualitative research method
原典	Harper, D. (2002). Talking about pictures: A case for photo elicitation. Visual Studies, 17(1), 13–26.	Denzin, N. K. (1989). Interpretive Biography. Sage Publications.
別名	photo-elicitation biography, visual biographical method, image-based life history research, VEBR	life history research, biographical method, life story research, biographical narrative inquiry
関連	4	6
概要	Visual elicitation biographical research combines the life-history interview tradition with image-based elicitation techniques. Participants bring or choose photographs, drawings, personal objects, or other visual artefacts that represent moments and meanings in their lives. These visuals serve as prompts in extended biographical interviews, releasing richer, more emotionally grounded narratives than verbal questioning alone typically achieves. The method is used in education, health, migration studies, and other fields where lived experience over time is central.	Biographical research is a qualitative method that examines individual lives in depth — through life-history interviews, personal documents, letters, and autobiographical narratives — to understand how personal experience intersects with social, historical, and cultural forces. Rooted in Wilhelm Dilthey's hermeneutics and made prominent in sociology by Thomas and Znaniecki's study of Polish immigrants, it treats the individual life story as a window onto broader social structures and processes. It belongs to the narrative inquiry subfamily alongside oral history and life-story research.