Biography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7076407 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Liz Stanley (0000-0001-7831-3283, University of Edinburgh, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Pages | 1-2 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosb023.pub2 |
| OpenAlex | W4232033244 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
An interest in biography has a long history in sociology and includes work by such luminaries as Weber, Mills, Merton, and Elias. It has developed around the broad trajectories of biographical sociology and the sociology of biography and encompassed ideas about the everyday, the thinking subject, life histories, storied lives, identities, and reflexivity. It has had two key influences on sociological work. Its emphasis that ideas derive from particular viewpoints and through researchers reflexively engaging with their subjects has given rise to a discipline‐wide recognition of reflexivity matters. Its approach has also resisted conventional distinctions between macro and microlevels of social life, with its emphasis on the interconnectedness of lives and social structures contributing to related developments in narrative inquiry and everyday life sociology among others
Art · Art history · Biography · Epistemology · Everyday life · Literature · Narrative · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Viewpoints · Visual arts · Computer Science · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Data Analysis and Archiving · History · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |