DOING BIOGRAPHY
• Snapshots• Vitae and Curriculum• Research in wartime• Pre-professional fragments• Pedagogic challenges
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Curriculum
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Vitae
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Research in wartime
• Absenteeism in the Manchester and Salford docks: (1941-2)
• De-casualisation• Income• Travel• Welfare
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Pre-professional fragments
• Relic?• Mass Observers in small worlds
• Amateur Investigators
• “---beyond the logical-intellectual picture---to ---the actual research processes.” (Whyte)
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Pre-professional fragments
• Relevant?• Uneven supply within/between
societies
• Professional bias- social/administrative
• Hidden pragmatics
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Pedagogic challenges
• Staying in?
• “The research literature---now sufficiently ample---for teaching purposes without the necessity for students to go into the field to see for themselves.”
• (Dept of Soc Admin, Man Univ, 11/12/79)
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Pedagogic challenges
• Getting out?
• “Even whilst relying upon academic institutions for the norms of production and publication, her landscapes of discovery were often beyond their walls, both geographically and spiritually.”
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