Dear all,
Those of you interested in how biographical research in the form of BNIM
(Biographic narrative interpretive method) case studies can support
multi-generational inquiry may be interested in the following book which
came out in September. (It may be useful to compare it with Gabriele
Rosenthal's 'Holocaust in three generations: families of victims and
perpetrators of the Nazi regime' (Cassell 1998) which was differently
illuminating about multi-generational inquiry and transmission).
Both are unfortunately only available in hardback!
Julia Brannen, Peter Moss and Ann Mooney
'Working and Caring over the Twentieth Century:
Change and Continuity in Four-Generation Families'
(2004) Palgrave
You can download the first chapter (+list of contents, index etc) from the
following URL:
<http://www.palgrave.com/products/Catalogue.aspx?is=1403920591>
Even if you are not specially interested in multi-generational studies, you
may find it useful to see how BNIM cases have been used in this research
project.
DESCRIPTION
Increased longevity and better health are changing the nature of family
life. In the context of changes in the world of work, increased divorce and
a declining welfare state, multi-generation or 'beanpole families' are a
potential resource for family support. Focusing on four-generation families
and the two central careers of the life course - employment and care -
Working and Caring Over the Twentieth Century explores this question. Based
upon new research that employed biographical methods, it maps in detail from
1910 to the late 1990s the lives of men and women as great-grandparents,
grandparents and parents. The book provides unique insights into processes
of change and continuity in family lives and the ways in which different
generations of men and women make sense of their lives.
CONTENTS
Setting the Scene (available for download, as above)
Changing Childhoods Across Three Generations of Women
Mothers' and Fathers' Work and Care Practices Over the Generations
Motherhood: Intergenerational Transmission and Negotiation
Timetabling, Talk and Transmission: Fatherhood Across the Generations
Intergenerational Transfers and Cultures of Transmission
Towards a Typology in Intergenerational Relations: Processes of Reproduction
and Innovation
Concluding Reflections
AUTHORS' BIOGRAPHIES
JULIA BRANNEN is Professor of Sociology of the Family, Thomas Coram Research
Unit, Institute of Education, University of London, UK. She has researched
and written about family lives of parents, children and young people in both
Britain and Europe and has a particular interest in the relation between
paid work and family life. She has published widely on these topics and is
co-founder and co-editor of the International Journal of Social Research
Methodology.
PETER MOSS has been a researcher for many years at the Thomas Coram Research
Unit and is Professor of Early Childhood Provision at the Institute of
Education, University of London, UK.
ANN MOONEY is a Senior Research Officer at the Thomas Coram Research Unit at
the University of London, UK. She has extensive research experience and has
undertaken studies on maternal employment, childcare and informal care.
Best wishes
Tom
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My last article published for those not allergic to psychodynamic concerns
is
Lynn Roggett and Tom Wengraf. 2004. 'Interpreting interviews in the light of
research team dynamics: a study of Nila's biographic interview'. Critical
Psychology vol.10., 94-122
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People often ask: what would the study of a single (BNIM) case be like?
I've just published one that you can access easily by downloading it from
the electronic journal "FQS" entitled
"Boundaries and Relationships in Homelessness Work: Lola, an Agency
Manager". It represents one way of writing up such a case. See it at:
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04wengraf-e.htm
If you are interested in the current research going on into the working of a
community Healthy Living Centre in East London, you could look at the
following website.
http://www.uclan.ac.uk/facs/health/socialwork/bromleybybow/index.htm
Recently published,
a book of vivid socio-biographic case studies from the EU SOSTRIS project
plus
methodological appendices on biographic-narrative method:
Edited by Prue Chamberlayne, Michael Rustin and Tom Wengraf
Biography and Social Exclusion in Europe:
experiences and life journeys
(Bristol: The Policy Press 2002)
for details of this volume, go to
<http://www.bris.ac.uk/Publications/TPP/pages/bm013.htm>
For details of my (doing quite well, reprinted) textbook, the title of
which explains itself
Qualitative Research Interviewing:
biographic narrative and semi-structured methods
(London: Sage Publications 2001)
look at
<http://www.sagepub.co.uk/shopping/Detail.asp?id=4813>
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