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	Nghiên cứu Lịch sử Cuộc đời Phê phán	Nghiên cứu tiểu sử
Lĩnh vực	Định tính	Định tính
Họ	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Năm ra đời	1980s–1990s	Late 19th–early 20th century (Dilthey ~1883; Thomas & Znaniecki 1918–1920)
Người khởi xướng	Ivor Goodson; influenced by critical theory traditions (Freire, Habermas, feminist scholars)	Wilhelm Dilthey (hermeneutic foundations); Thomas & Znaniecki (sociological application); Norman Denzin (interpretive biography)
Loại	Qualitative research design	Qualitative research method
Công trình gốc	Goodson, I. F., & Sikes, P. (2001). Life History Research in Educational Settings: Learning from Lives. Open University Press. ISBN: 978-0335205530	Denzin, N. K. (1989). Interpretive Biography. Sage Publications.
Tên gọi khác	critical biographical research, critical life history, critical life history method, critical biographical inquiry	life history research, biographical method, life story research, biographical narrative inquiry
Liên quan	6	6
Tóm tắt	Critical life history research combines the biographical depth of life history methodology with critical theory perspectives — drawing on feminist, Marxist, postcolonial, or critical race frameworks — to examine how structural power relations, social inequalities, and institutional forces shape individual lives. Rather than treating a life story as a purely personal account, this approach reads it as evidence of wider social and political conditions, using individual narratives to surface systemic patterns of oppression, resistance, and agency.	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.