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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