The Meaning of Reliability and Validity
Biography and life story research has been criticized for being too subjective as a form of research science. It has been characterized as too unwieldy and without a set of established and agreed-on methodological procedures. The defenders claim that biography and life story methods are of value because they are the best way to study the whole person, which was the fundamental goal of personality psychology during the 1930s at its founding. Sarbin (1986) also defends these methods by arguing that narrative is the root metaphor for the entire field of psychology.
There are some ways in which biography and life story researchers think about issues of the trustworthiness and usefulness of their research design, ...
Get Qualitative Research: An Introduction to Methods and Designs now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
