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Generational research: between historical and sociological imaginations
This paper reflects on Julia Brannen’s contribution to the development of theory and methods for intergenerational research. The discussion is contextualised within a contemporary ‘turn to time’ within sociology, involving tensions and synergies between sociological and historical imagination. These questions are informed by a juxtaposition of Brannen’s four-generation study of family change and social historian Angela Davis’s exploration women and the family in England between 1945 and 2000. These two studies give rise to complementary findings, yet have distinctive orientations towards the status and treatment of sources, the role of geography in research design and limits of generalisation
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International Journal of Social Research MethodologyISSN
1364-5579Publisher
Taylor & FrancisExternal DOI
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2Volume
17Page range
147-156Department affiliated with
- Social Work and Social Care Publications
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2014-06-30First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
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