Experienced Life and Narrated Life Story - Gestalt and Structure of Biographical Self-Presentations

How do people narrate events in their life story and in the history of their family or families when making a self-presentation? How are narratives and experiences in the present related to experiences and narratives in the past? This book answers these questions with a theoretical and empirical study of the interconnections between remembering, experiencing, and presenting what was experienced, at different points of the life course and of the associated collective histories. It also discusses rules for conducting interviews that support processes of remembering, and for carrying out an analysis that does justice to this dialectic. The author exploits ideas from phenomenology and Gestalt theory in this book, which has become a classic. Since its first publication in 1995, she has increasingly taken inspiration from the figurational sociology of Norbert Elias. Accordingly, this English edition contains a new introduction and a new chapter on this later expansion of her approach to sociological biographical research.

Product details

• Authors: Gabriele Rosenthal
• Assisted by: Ruth Schubert (Translation)
• Publisher: Campus Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.04.2024
• EAN: 9783593518862
• ISBN: 978-3-593-51886-2
• No. of pages: 279
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 18 mm x 215 mm
• Weight: 354 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Methods of empirical and qualitative social research; Interview, Programm, Oral History, Biografien und Sachliteratur, History, Sociology, Life Course, Holocaust, Phenomenology, Wissenschaft (Gruppe 5) (CAM), Sozialforschung und -statistik, Genozide und ethnische Säuberung, Family, Gestalt Theory, Gewalt, Intoleranz und Verfolgung in der Geschichte, families, Experiencing, Self-Presentation, Presenting, ca. 1940 bis ca. 1949, Zweite Hälfte 20. Jahrhundert (ca. 1950 bis ca. 1999), Zwischenkriegszeit (ca. 1919 bis ca. 1939), narratives and experiences in the present, process of remembering, biographical structures, narratives and experiences in the past, sociological biographical research, figurational sociology of Norbert Elias, collective and familial history, collective histories, life history, Remembering