The social science of biographical life‐writing: some methodological and ethical issues
The social science of biographical life‐writing: some methodological and ethical issues
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生物传记写作的社会科学：一些方法论和伦理问题
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2010
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A. Oakley
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传记的事业存在于事实与虚构、（社会）科学与艺术、客观叙事与个人生活故事的交叉点上。虽然社会科学家写作、使用传记，并且是传记的主题，但在方法论文献中，关于传记作为一种生活写作形式的性质的讨论相对较少。本文讨论了在研究和撰写杰出社会科学家芭芭拉·伍顿（Barbara Wootton，1897-1988）的传记过程中遇到的一些方法、伦理和反身性问题。它考虑了同意和责任的问题，来自不同来源的数据的“三角测量”（例如采访，档案，自传体账户;信件，出版的作品和引用，以及关于它），传记作者和传记作者之间的关系，私人和公共之间联系的合法性，以及在传记叙事制作中的“偏见”和解释问题。
The enterprise of biography inhabits a liminal world at the intersections of fact and fiction, (social) science and art, objective narrative and personal life story. While social scientists write, use and are the subjects of, biographies, there is relatively little discussion in the methodological literature as to the nature of biography as a form of life‐writing. This paper discusses some of the issues of method and of ethics and reflexivity encountered during the research and writing of a biography of the prominent social scientist Barbara Wootton (1897–1988). It considers questions of consent and responsibility, the ‘triangulation’ of data derived from different sources (e.g. interviews, archives, autobiographical accounts; letters, published work and references to, and about, it), the relationship between biographer and biographee, the legitimacy of links between the private and the public, and issues of ‘bias’ and interpretation in the production of biographical narrative.