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Historical Sociology – Biographical Research – Multigenerational Research
Historical Sociology – Biographical Research – Multigenerational Research
Abstract Submissions Closed
Saturday, 27 February 2021: 14:15-15:45
Location:
RC56 Historical Sociology (host committee)
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
In this session we will look at the parallels and diverse links between biographical research and historical sociology. It will provide a forum for discussing the advantages, chances and limitations of combining biographical research, including its continuous trend towards multigenerational studies, with historical sociology, for example with figurational sociology. While there may be limitations with regard to capturing extremely extended long-term processes, multigenerational research offers benefits for the reconstruction of so-called micro or meso processes, or so-called bottom-up processes of social change. In other words, multigenerational biographical research looks at the intertwining of changes at various levels (and/or timescales) of observation, and tries to reconstruct "subjective" experiences in the past, especially the experiences and perspectives of outsiders, in the sense proposed by Elias, which are not part of the hegemonic discourses.
For this session we invite papers that aim at analysing long-term social processes and making a thorough reconstruction of socio-historical and cultural contexts as a part of their method of analysis.
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