Like all writing, biographies are interpretive. They require no less than organizing into text the chaos of human existence. In "Interpretive Biography" Denzin combines one of the oldest techniques in the social sciences and humanities with one of the newest. Bringing in elements of postmodernism an[...]

Symbolic interactionism is one of the most enduring - and certainly the most sociological - of all social psychologies. In this landmark work, Norman K. Denzin traces its tortured history from its roots in American pragmatism to its present-day encounter with poststructuralism and postmodernism.Argu[...]

What are the prospects for qualitative researchers and their methods of inquiry? The leading figure in the qualitative community, Norman Denzin, provides a 'call to arms' for researchers in this brief, provocative book. He promotes a research tradition engaged in social justice, sensitive to identit[...]