This volume reveals the potential of biographical research in the production of social theory, in the development of methodological innovation, in giving voice and protagonism to people, and in the understanding of the social unfolding of their lives.

Foreword 1. Forever young: creative responses to challenging issues in biographical research Part 1: The Production of Social Theory Through and Beyond the Biography’s Singularity 2. Sociological biography and socialisation process: a dispositionalist-contextualist conception 3. Tapping and assessing the concept of educational regret: methodological techniques for opening up biographical reflection 4. Subjects analysing subjects in the biographical approach: a generational study of Chilean musicians Part 2: Methodological Rivalries, Affairs and Openness 5. Using reflexive lifelines in biographical interviews to aid the collection, visualisation and analysis of resilience 6. Self-administered event history calendars: a possibility for surveys? 7. There is more than one way – a study of mixed analytical methods in biographical narrative research Part 3: Giving the Floor, Sharing Voices, Creating Harmonies 8. Creative biographical responses to epistemological and methodological challenges in generating a deaf life story telling instrument 9. Migrants’ lives matter: biographical research, recognition and social participation 10. Facilitating the voice of disabled women: the biographic narrative interpretive method (BNIM) in action Part 4: The Social Unfolding of Individual Lives 11. Searching for pearls: ‘Doing’ biographical research on Pearl Jephcott 12. A moment of biographical analysis under the microscope: reading Felipe’s autobiographical narrative