Biography and Social Research

• Authors: Franco Ferrarotti

Abstracts

EN

This essay tries to show the scientific validity of the biographical approach in social research. In a sense, it is the realization that nobody would talk about his or her intimate existential experiences, or Erlebnisse, to a tape-reading machine. The object of sociology is not an object. It is a person, a human being living in society, and as such it must be dealt with.

Keywords

EN

biography; social research; existential experience; sociology; social commitment

• Publisher: Academicus. International Scientific Journal publishing house
• Journal: Academicus. International Scientific Journal
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 26
• Pages: 9-26

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Franco Ferrarotti

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Identifiers

DOI

10.7336/academicus.2022.26.01

Biblioteka Nauki

2079476