Beschreibung:
Franco Ferrarotti is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Doctoral Program at the University of Rome. He is the editor of La Critica Sociologica.
Franco Ferrarotti hopes to lead sociologists away from overly reductionistic, technical measurement of their subjects_an approach that has increasingly been problematized by the natural sciences_toward a rediscovery of (auto)biographical materials and the value of the individual.
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 A Sociological Methodology as the Technique of Listening Chapter 3 The Quality of the Everyday and the Practice of Life Chapter 4 Biography as Interaction Chapter 5 The Social Nature of the Individual 6 The Symmetrical Limits of Naturalistic Objectivism and Psychologism Chapter 7 The Specificity of the Biographic Method: From Naturalistic Social Research to "Joint" Research