Table of Contents

Series editor's foreword
Introduction
biographical research
Uses of biographical research
The life history
Autobiography and biography
Auto/biography and sociology
Oral history
The narrative analysis of lives
Memory and autobiography
Ethnography and biographical research
Conclusion
References
Index.

About the Author

Brian Roberts is Principal Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Behavioural Sciences, University of Huddersfield. His writings have included work on time and identity in biographical work, communal change and Welsh labour history.

Reviews

'Anyone who set out to encompass the whole of biographical research in around 200 pages faces a formidable task...Roberts is certainly successful in conveying a sense of the rich diversity of biographical research. This is a book based upon a formidably wide-ranging bibliography together with his own, by no means insignificant, contributions to the field...[the]...reader will be left in no doubt as to the central importance of biographical research and of its legitimate position within the social sciences'. - David Morgan 20020101