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Biographical Research — Life History and Biographical Method

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.

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  1. Denzin, N. K. (1989). Interpretive Biography. Sage Publications. link
  2. Roberts, B. (2002). Biographical Research. Open University Press. link

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ScholarGate. (2026, June 3). Biographical Research Method. ScholarGate. https://scholargate.app/sr/qualitative/biographical-research

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ScholarGateBiographical Research (Biographical Research Method). Preuzeto 2026-06-15 sa https://scholargate.app/sr/qualitative/biographical-research · Skup podataka: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20539026