Dear all,
I received the email below from Julia Brannen about her new work on 12
multi-generational families using BNIM as a basis. She was wondering -- when
she sent the email -- whether anybody would like to review the book for the
IJSRM. I think it very well worth reading and would have offeedr to review
it myself, except that I read it over in MSS and made lots of suggestions so
that it doesn't feel quite proper for me to do this!
I think there is a fascinating compare and contrast job to be done between
feels like a more 'sociological' use of BNIM by Julia and her collaborators
(Peter Moss and Ann Mooney) in this multi-generational study and what I feel
to be the more 'psychological' study by Gabriele Rosenthal and her
collaborators in their 'Holocaust in three generations'. In addition, in the
UK text, three writers produce a single study; in the German one, a large
number of authors produce a whole variety of mini-studies. The use and
deployment of 'historical contextual' knowledge and research is also
necessarily different, since the UK study looks at one particular society,
whereas Gabriele's study covers 'impact' in East Germany, West Germany, and
Israel and is hence multi-societal. Etc.
Anyway, if anybody is interested in writing a review, then they could
contact Linda Bell or Melanie Mauthner or Julia.
In any case, I strongly recommend getting a copy (Julia was saying she could
get copies at half-price for £25) or getting your library to get one. It
certainly improves the 'presence' of BNIM on the research stage!
Best wishes for an exciting relationship-packed and totally-relaxed and
peaceful (or some combination of the two) Christmas!
Tom
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> From: Julia Brannen <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 11:36:23 +0000
> To: Tom Wengraf <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: RE: Biography and Society
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> Resent-Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 11:31:05 +0000
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>Julia Brannen, Peter Moss and Ann Mooney. 2004. 'Working and caring over the
>twentieth century: change and continuity in four-generation families'. Palgrave
>Macmillan and the ESRC.
> Someone might like to review it for the International Journal of Social
> Research Methodology (review editor is Linda Bell at Middlesex University or
> Melanie Mauthner at Open University ([log in to unmask]).
> Julia
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