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What are the most effective methods for doing life course research? The field's founders and leaders answer this question, giving readers tips on: the art and method of the appropriate research design; the collection of life-history data; and the search for meaningful patterns to be found in the results.
Collecting Life History Data: Experiences from the German Life History Study
Collecting Life History Data: Experiences from the German Life History Study
The life course is an important topic of research in the social sciences. Autobiographical material and numerous qualitative studies provide a wealth of data not only for psychologists and sociologists but also for historians and scholars in other disciplines. The German Life History Study (GLHS) described here differs from such qualitative studies in several important aspects. Most important, it deals primarily with numerical or quantitative information such as the timing of events and characteristics of activities as opposed to narratives about lives. Events are not treated in isolation but rather are treated as elements in continuous sequences; for example, a given job is merely one element in a sequence of jobs making up ...
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