BIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVE APPLIED TO THE STUDY OF RELIGIOSITY
https://doi.org/10.24290/1029-3736-2016-22-4-65-80
Abstract
The biographical turn in social sciences of the 2000-s actualized a rich experience of the sociological application of this method. In Europe leaders in its development were the sociologists of two different directions: one is represented by Prue Chamberlayne and Tom Wengraf and another one by Fritz Schütze. In the USA Norman Denzin made the main contribution to the biographical studies. Biographical method reemerged within social sciences as an approach to study hard-to-reach, or hidden populations. So the author argues that the most socially isolated religious groups can be reached by the method of biographical narrative. The article contains a full description of those difficulties, which are often to the method in use and gives through out illustrations of them taken from the author’s study of religious Jews of Sankt-Petersburg. The author came to the conclusion that the sociologist has necessarily to consider in detail the dramaturgy of the interview meeting.
About the Author
E. A. Ostrovskaya
Saint-Petersburg State University
Russian Federation
doctor of social sciences, and professor of sociology at the Department of sociology
Russian Federation
doctor of social sciences, and professor of sociology at the Department of sociology
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Ostrovskaya E.A. BIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVE APPLIED TO THE STUDY OF RELIGIOSITY. Moscow State University Bulletin. Series 18. Sociology and Political Science. 2016;22(4):65-80. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24290/1029-3736-2016-22-4-65-80
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