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Kvantitativní a kvalitativní přístupy ve výzkumu životních drah

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Hašková H., Dudová R.
Data a výzkum - SDA Info (Data and Research - SDA Info)
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2014
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vol. 8
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issue 1
5-24
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Despite the growing number of statistical analyses of life-history data and a long tradition of biographical research, there is often no communication between these two streams of life-course research. It is possible to examine the life course quantitatively through life histories, which may be used to model synthetic biographies in order to reveal patterns in the timing and sequencing of life events, the durations of states between them, and the causal links between them. It is also possible to examine the life course qualitatively through life stories, e.g. biographical narratives, which reflect how persons understand, experience and attach meaning to events and states in their life. Through a quantitative analysis of life-history data we can describe and explain the morphology of particular events in the observed population, while a qualitative analysis of biographical narratives provides insight into people’s decision-making, perceptions of their options, and how they attach meanings to and experience events. This article summarizes the strengths and weaknesses of both approaches, explains in which sense they are connected or differentiated from each other, what data and analyses each perspective may utilize, and briefly introduces one type of mixed methods life course research that utilizes the complementarity of both approaches.
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Life Stories and Interculturality

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Toldi É.
Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica
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2014
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vol. 6
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issue 1
87-104
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This article examines two short stories: Teréz Müller’s Igaz történet [A True Story] and József Bálint senior’s Imádkozzál és dolgozzál [Pray and Work]. The argument explores the way the texts reflect on shifts in power in the Hungarian region of Vojvodina, and the way power structures define the relationship between majority and minority in a society that undergoes constant and radical changes. Contemporary historical events of the twentieth century, changes, faultlines, traumatic life events and identity shifts emerge as the contexts for these narratives of the daily experiences of a Jewish merchant family and a farmer family respectively. Thus, the two texts analysed are representative works rooted in two fundamentally different social backgrounds. The discourse about the I is always also about the other; the construction of identity is already in itself a dialogic, intercultural act, which makes it an ideal topic for the exploration of the changes and shifts in one’s own and the other’s cultural identity. Translational processes of transmission are also required for the narration of traumatic experiences. Teréz Müller was the grandmother of the Serbian writer Aleksandar Tišma. Her book is not primarily a document of their relationship; however, it does throw light on diverse background events of the writer’s life and oeuvre. Comparing the experiences of identity in the autobiographical novel of Aleksandar Tišma and the recollections of his grandmother reveals geocultural characteristics of their intercultural life experiences.
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Our immigrants and emigrants: there are people with their life stories behind the numbers

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Vižintin M. A.
Edukacja Międzykulturowa
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2022
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vol. 19
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issue 4
205-214
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The article encourages comparative perspectives on people who emigrate and immigrate. It draws attention to the knowledge of the history of migrations: most European countries faced emigration in the early 20th century, while in the beginning of the 21st century, they witness immigration that exceeds emigration. The most common reason for immigration in Slovenia is employment. Work permits are issued to people who come to work here, because they are needed. Yet, it is people who come, not workforce, and these people have families. Consequently, the second most common reason for immigration is family reunification. When discussing immigration, we underrate the role of bilateral agreements, yet they pave the way for greater economic migration between the signatories. Knowing the migrations of past and present, including official statistical data and the emigration-immigration perspective, it is extremely important to understand that there are people behind these numbers. The article comprises a recommendation to publish texts that include not only numbers, but also people with their life stories, immigrants and emigrants in the same publication. To develop intercultural education, it is essential that migrations and diversity are a part of the curriculum and teaching materials.
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Elulood Lati etniliste kultuuride uurimises: liivlaste ja mustlaste lood

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Garda-Rozenberga I., Zirnīte M.
Mäetagused
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2014
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vol. 56
103-126
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Even though narrating is a universal phenomenon, there is no one universal narration model, much less a universal life story model. This is also verified by the life stories from various ethnic groups that have long lived among Latvians in the Latvian cultural space. Life stories play an important role in the research of ethnic history and social memory, because both Roma and Livonian cultures and their transmission between generations have traditionally been based on the oral tradition. Any attempt to reconstruct the history of these two ethnic groups is therefore encumbered as well as open to various interpretations. Life stories can likewise be interpreted in different ways. This article examines the creation of life stories both as a social event in a specific time and space and as one of the forms of cultural experience. The article presents excerpts from Livonian and Roma life stories, thereby revealing not only what is unique about each narrator, but also providing an insight into a certain group’s experience of reality that is expressed through narratives. The type of expression and use of language, story composition, intertextuality and presentation all contain information about the culture and society in which the narrator lives. Audio recordings from the National Oral History Archives at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the University of Latvia have been used for this study. Over the 20 years since its founding, the archives have amassed a voluminous Livonian oral history collection. The interviews took place in the Latvian language, in the local tāmnieku dialect spoken by the Livonians who were born and have grown up along the northern Kurzeme coast. The Roma interviews were also recorded in Kurzeme, some in the 1990s, but most just this past summer, within the project “Ethnic and Narrative Diversity in the Construction of Life Stories in Latvia”, financed by the Latvian Council of Science. Life stories are unique performances, but they are, at the same time, also created within a complicated, established social situation and are influenced by several aspects: the interview context, cooperation between the narrator and the interviewee as two separate personalities, the narrator’s abilities and individual creativity. Cultural and historical conditions have influenced both Livonian and Roma life stories, thereby revealing influences from their usual environment, traditional way of life and folklore, as well as from Latvian culture and the era in which they live.
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Životní příběhy - výzkumy na pomezí mezi etnologií a historií

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Nosková J.
Národopisný věstník
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2009
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vol. 26_(68)
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issue 1
157-170
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This paper deals with the life stories and with their research in ethnology and history. The author at first defines the term life story and refers to other possible terms which are used in the relevant scientific disciplines. He endeavors to point out characteristic features of this source - oral tradition, emergence on the researcher’s instigation, and describes the impact of those features on the ways how the life stories are utilized in ethnology and history with an accent on interdisciplinarity which is inherent in the study of those sources. Attention is paid to the research of narration and to performance studies which influenced the research of the life stories. The author means that concerns of ethnology and history often blend together, as proved e. g. by the researches of the ethnologist A. Lehmann.
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Ethnic diversity in the construction of life stories in Latvia

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Garda-Rozenberga I., Zirnīte M.
Acta Baltico-Slavica
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2017
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vol. 41
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Ethnic diversity in the construction of life stories in LatviaLatvian society is ethnically diverse and has the largest proportion of ethnic minorities of the three Baltic States. The article draws upon life-story research with respondents from Russian and Romany communities in Latvia. These communities have different social, historical and cultural experiences, thereby allowing them to be contrasted and compared. Ethnic diversity can be considered one of the benefits of Latvia’s cultural identity because it provides the opportunity not only to become acquainted with the characteristics and uniqueness of each culture but also to establish which traits unite these cultures, thereby creating a harmonious space which can accommodate cultural diversity. Biographical interviews facilitate the juxtaposition and comparative interpretation of cultural values, ways of belonging, and the articulation of collective memory in different ethnic groups.The article expands the analytical part of the sources: how the personal life stories are connected with the broader (general) social and historical narratives. A few samples are used to characterise narration techniques, cultural references in the construction of life stories and its layout, as well as imagery. The main feature studied in the article is self-positioning in the general course of history and in the history of the defined geographical space – Latvia. Zróżnicowanie etniczne w konstruowaniu historii życia na ŁotwieSpołeczeństwo łotewskie jest zróżnicowane etnicznie i spośród trzech państw bałtyckich ma największy odsetek mniejszości etnicznych. Artykuł opiera się na badaniach nad historią życia respondentów pochodzących z zamieszkujących Łotwę mniejszości rosyjskiej i romskiej. Mają one odmienne doświadczenia społeczne, historyczne i kulturowe, dzięki czemu można je zestawiać i porównywać. Zróżnicowanie etniczne może być uważane za jedną z zalet tożsamości kulturowej Łotwy, ponieważ stwarza możliwość nie tylko poznania cech i unikatowości każdej z kultur, lecz także pozwala ustalić, które cechy spajają te kultury, tym samym stwarzając harmonijną przestrzeń, w której jest miejsce na różnorodność etniczną. Wywiady biograficzne ułatwiają wzajemne przeciwstawienie i porównawcze interpretacje wartości kulturowych, sposobu przynależenia, jak też artykułowania pamięci zbiorowej u różnych grup etnicznych.Artykuł poszerza część analityczną źródeł w kwestii, jak osobista historia życia łączy się z szerszymi, ogólnymi narracjami społecznymi i historycznymi. Na kilku przykładach scharakteryzowano zarówno techniki narracji, odniesienia kulturowe w budowaniu historii życia i ich układów, jak też obrazowania. Zasadniczą cechą badaną w tym artykule jest autosytuowanie siebie w ogólnym przebiegu historii i w historii określonej przestrzeni geograficznej na Łotwie.
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Życiorysy czytelnicze (zarys koncepcji)

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Trávníček J.
Roczniki Biblioteczne
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2017
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vol. 61
227-239
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Projekt badawczy życiorysów czytelniczych — jego zaplecze i rezultaty, stosunek do biografistyki. Myślenie narracyjne i lektura, opowieść biografi czna. Potencjał życiorysów czytelniczych.
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Between 2007 and 2013 the author carried out extensive statistical surveys of reading in the Czech Republic, the results of which were published successively in 2008, 2011 and 2014. At the same time, between 2009 and 2015 he collected 138 life stories of readers from across the country, representative of the various generations as well as social and professional groups. This material has made it possible to distinguish and describe four generations of readers: 15–24, 25–44, 45–64 and over 65, and to point to key phenomena concerning Czech readers — specific works and authors as well as attitudes to reading in general. The concept of life stories, a unique variety of biographies, on the one hand is based on a chronological interview script, the objective of which is to reconstruct the development of specific readers, and on the other it provides for a degree of freedom and spontaneity of expression, which also reveal an emotional attitude to reading. Another important feature is a strong historical and social context of reading across society. Sources produced as a result significantly complement typical memoirs and letters, which feature reading-related themes, as well as statistical surveys.
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Osudy a ohlasy hry Šest postav hledá autora Luigiho Pirandella v českých zemích ve dvacátých letech

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Skříčková E.
Theatralia: Revue současného myšlení o divadelní kultuře (Theatralia: The revue of contemporary thought on theatre culture)
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2018
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vol. 21
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issue 1
150-162
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The paper explores the reception of Luigi Pirandello's play Six Characters in Search of Their Author in the Czech Lands in 1920s, especially spectator and critical responses to its productions. Thanks to its innovative approach to theatre conventions, specific poetics based on blurring the border between reality and fiction, questioning the generally accepted values and the very existence of objective truth, the comedy aroused mixed reactions among Czech spectators and critiques. Based on a thorough analysis of theatre reviews, critiques, and notes to its productions, the reactions of Czech professional and spectatorial community are explored, assessing the probable reasons of Pirandello's simultaneous success and failure with Czech audience, and delineating his place in the contexts of Czech culture.
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Příspěvek analyzuje recepci divadelní hry Luigiho Pirandella Šest postav hledá autora v českých zemích dvacátých let a její divácký a kritický ohlas. Vzhledem k inovativnímu přístupu k divadelním konvencím a specifické poetice, založené na problematizování hranic mezi realitou a fikcí, relativizaci zavedených hodnot a zpochybňování existence objektivní pravdy, vyvolala Pirandellova komedie u českých diváků i mezi kritiky rozporuplné reakce. Na základě excerpce českých recenzí, kritik a anotací divadelních představení tohoto dramatického díla je uskutečněna analýza reakcí české divadelní komunity, určují se pravděpodobné příčiny dramatikova úspěchu, či neúspěchu u českého publika a vymezuje se Pirandellova pozice v kontextu české kultury.
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A History of Boundaries: An Oral History Archive in South Tyrol

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Urru P.
Wrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej
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2022
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vol. 12
164-177
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Analiza kilku wywiadów wideo zebranych przez lokalnego historyka Giorgio Delle Donne pokazuje, w jaki sposób pochodzenie rodzinne i czynniki zewnętrzne, takie jak polityka i media, wpłynęły na sposób, w jaki ludność włoskojęzyczna, która przybyła do Południowego Tyrolu w latach 20. i 40. XX w., przeżywała zadomawianie się na nowym terenie. Archiwum Historii Mówionej przechowywane we Włoskiej Bibliotece Prowincjonalnej im. Claudii Augusty przedstawia problemy między grupami niemiecko- i włoskojęzycznymi na pograniczu.
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The analysis of some video interviews collected by the local historian Giorgio Delle Donne demonstrates how family background and external factors such as politics and the media have influenced the way the Italian-speaking population, which arrived in South Tyrol between the 1920s and 1940s, experienced its settling in a new area. The Oral History Archive stored in the Claudia Augusta Italian Provincial Library portrays the issues between the German and Italian-speaking groups in this borderland.
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