Workshops as an Essential Practice in Doing Biographical Research

• Authors: Kaja Kaźmierska , Joanna Wygnańska

Title variants

Praca warsztatowa jako warunek sine qua non badań biograficznych

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the paper is to share our reflections on the meaning, goals, and course of analytical workshops, which are treated by the authors not only in terms of methodological procedures, but also as a process of grounded theory building, where the phase of collective work is pivotal. We present the idea of workshops worked out within interpretative sociology and qualitative analysis and developed in different fields, yet we mainly focus on biographical research analysis. The knowledge and practice transfer between scholars in this respect is also one of the frames of our reasoning. The paper consists of several sections: firstly, we present a short overview of workshop practices in the field of biographical research referring mainly to students’ workshops; in the second part, we describe advantages of workshop practices for researchers and their possible outcomes; the third section describes examples of research and analysis of the same empirical material done by researchers representing different methodological approaches; finally, we finish with concluding remarks.

PL

Celem artykułu jest refleksja na temat wartości pracy warsztatowej w metodzie biograficznej. Wspólna praca nad tekstem jest nie tylko elementem pracy analitycznej, ale powinna być uznana za jeden z niezbędnych kroków procedury analitycznej prowadzącej do refleksji teoretycznej. Artykuł składa się z następujących części: krótkiej prezentacji historii idei warsztatów analitycznych w polu badań biograficznych zwłaszcza w odniesieniu do pracy ze studentami; opisu korzyści charakterze edukacyjnym, analitycznym i teoretycznym, jakie płynąć mogą z pracy zespołowej; charakterystyki konkretnych przykładów warsztatowej pracy badawczej i jej rezultatów w formie tekstów pokazujących różne podejścia analityczne i teoretyczne.

Keywords

EN

workshop; qualitative data analysis; biographical analysis; Grounded Theory

PL

warsztat; analiza danych jakościowych; analiza biograficzna; warsztat; analiza danych jakościowych; analiza biograficzna

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 164-177

Dates

published

2019-05-31

Contributors

author

Kaja Kaźmierska

• University of Lodz, Institute of Sociology, Department of Sociology of Culture, 41 Rewolucji 1905 year Street, 90-214 Lodz

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9044-7273

author

Joanna Wygnańska

• Uniwersytet Łódzki, Institute of Sociology, Department of Sociology of Culture, 41 Rewolucji 1905 year Street, 90-214 Lodz

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5995-3012

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/1733-8069.15.2.09