VOLUME ONE: TIME AND BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH PART ONE: 'THE PLACE OF HISTORY' Uses of History - C Wright Mills 'Peasants and Workers' - John Madge Life Record of an Immigrant - Wladek Wiszniewski Biographieanalyse eines Mullerlebens - Fritz Schutze Biographical Research and Historical Watersheds - Robert Miller, Robin Humphrey and Elena Zdravomyslova 'Trajectories of Coping Strategies in Eastern Germany' - Olaf Struck PART TWO: 'GENERATIONS AND LIFE COURSES' The Problem of Generations - Karl Mannheim Mannheim's Sociology of Generations - J Pilcher An Undervalued Legacy Generation as a Sociological Problem - D I Kertzer The Cohort as a Concept in the Study of Social Change - N B Ryder 'The Time of Generations' - Michael Corsten Overview and Highlights of a Sociological Perspective - Matilda White Riley 'The Historical Context' - Robert Miller Everyday Time and Life Time: On the Problems of Healing Contradictory Experiences of Time - Peter Alheit 'The World We Forgot: A Historical Review of the Life Course' - Martin Kohli Social Organisation and Subjective Construction of the Life Course - Martin Kohli VOLUME TWO: THE CONSTRUCTION OF BIOGRAPHICAL MEANING SECTION ONE: 'NARRATIVE AND BIOGRAPHY' 'Narrative Configuration in Qualitative Analysis' - Donald E Polkinghorne 'Strategic Uses of Narrative in the Presentation of Self and Illness: A Research Note - Catherine Kohler Riessman 'Marking Absences: Holocaust Testimony and History' - Naomi Rosh White 'To Rebuild Life: A Narrative Analysis of Three Generations of an Israeli Holocaust Survivor's Family' - Dan Bar-On and Noga Gilad 'Veiling and Denying the Past: The Dialogue of Families of Holocaust Survivors and Families of Nazi Perpetrators' - Gabriele Rosenthal 'Transcendent Stories and Counternarratives in Holocaust Survivor Life Histories: Searching for Meaning in Video-Testimony Archives' - Sarah K Carney 'Texts in a Changing Context: Reconstructing Lives in East Germany' - Molly Andrews SECTION TWO:'THE PAST IN THE FUTURE: QUESTIONS OF BIOGRAPHICAL IDENTITY' The Problem with Identity: Biography as Solution to Some (Post)-Modernist Dilemmas - Wolfram Fischer-Rosenthal 'Toward a Social Phenomenology of Aging: Studying the Self Process in Biographical Work' - Jerold M Starr 'Undaunted Courage: Life History and the Postmodern Challenge' - William G Tierney On Auto/Biography in Sociology - Liz Stanley 'Kognitive Figuren des Autobiographishen Stegreifezahlens' - Fritz Sch tze 'L'Ideologie: Un Mode de Connaissance' - Gilles Houle 'Die Haltung zur Eigenen Biographie' - Gerhard Riemann VOLUME THREE: CONTEXTS SECTION ONE: 'THE "GERMAN SCHOOL"' 'Biographical Analyis: A "German" School?' - Ursula Apitzsch and Lena Inowlocki 'Biographical Research' - Rosenthal, Gabriele 'Structures of Meaning and Objective Hermeneutics' - Ulrich Oevermann with Tilman Allert, Elizabeth Konau and J rgen Krambeck 'Accompaniments of Chronic Illness' - Juliet Corbin and Anselm Strauss Changes in Body, Self, Biography and Biographical Time '"Trajectory" As a Basic Theoretical Concept for Suffering and Disorderly Social Processes' - Gerhard Riemann and Fritz Sch tze SECTION TWO: 'THE SIGNIFICANCE AND ROLE OF THE FAMILY' 'History and the Family: The Discovery of Complexity' - Glen H Elder Jr 'The History of the Family and the Complexity of Social Change' - Tamara K Hareven 'Family Time and Historical Time' - Tamara K Hareven 'Family Myth, Models and Denials in the Shaping of Individual Life Paths' - Paul Thompson 'Biography, Family History and the Analysis of Social Change' - Brian Elliott Artisanal Bakery in France - Daniel Bertaux and Isabelle Bertaux-Wiame How it Lives and why it Survives Social Genealogies Commented On and Compared - Daniel Bertaux An Instrument for Observing Social Mobility in "The Longue Duree" 'The Trans-Pacific Family: A Case Study of Sam Chang's Family History' - Haiming Liu 'Memory of Slavery in Black Families of Sao Paulo, Brazil - Maria de Lourdes Monaco Janotti and Zita de Paula Rosa VOLUME FOUR: DISPUTES AND CONCERNS IN BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH PART SEVEN: 'METHODOLOGICAL DEBATES AND ISSUES' 'Biography: Acccount, Text, Method' - Martin Kohli Interpretive Guidelines - Norman K Denzin 'Positioning and Autobiography: Telling your Life' - Luk van Langenhove and Rom Harr[ac]e 'The Story of Life: Hermeneutic Perspectives on the Relationship between Narrative and Life History' - Guy A M Widdershoven 'Biographical and Empiricistic Illusions: A Reply to Recent Criticism' - Thierry Kochuyt A Response to Thierry Kochuyt's 'Biographical and Empiricist Illusions: A Reply to Recent Criticism' - Daniel Bertaux Daniel Bertaux's Complaints or Against False Dichotomies in Biographical Research - Wolfram Fischer-Rosenthal and Gabrielle Rosenthal Could Objective Realities Tell Us a Story? Reply to Bertaux - Thierry Kochuyt 'Context, Authenticity, Referentiality, Reflexivity: Back to Basics in Autobiography' - J P Roos 'Le Methodologique: Implication et Explicitation dans L'Enquete de Terrain' - Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan 'Maintaining a Sense of Individual Autonomy under Conditions of Constraint: A Study of East German Managers' - Ulrike Nagel 'A Propos des Biographies - Francoise Battagliola et al Regards croses sur Questionnaires et Entretiens' SECTION TWO: 'ETHICS' 'Doing Life Histories' - Annabel Faraday and Ken Plummer 'The Moral and Human Face of Life Stories - Ken Plummer Reflexivity, Power and Ethics' 'Ethical Issues in Ageing and Biography' - Gary M Kenyon On Writing Other People's LIves: Self-Analytic Reflections of a Narrative Writer - Ruthellen Josselon 'The Healing Effects of Storytelling - Gabriele Rosenthal On the Conditions of Curative Storytelling in the Context of Research and Counselling' 'Ethical Aspects of Biographical Interviewing and Analysis' - Kaja Kazmierska 'Field Ethics for the Life History' - Carl B Klockars