Intergenerational Biographical Structuring

• Main Authors: Wolfram Fischer, Martina Goblirsch
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: FQS 2008-01-01
• Series: Forum: Qualitative Social Research
• Subjects: biographical structuring; biographical research; biographic-narrative interview; intergenerational case reconstruction; youth welfare; narrative biographical diagnosis
• Online Access: http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/315

Presupposing the thesis of interactive biographical structuring, two narrative-biographical interviews of a mother and her son are analyzed by looking at the process of biographical co-construction. The inter-generational case reconstruction reveals how the process of biographical co-structuring results in a long-lasting highly problematic life situation of the son. At the time of the interview he permanently lives in a youth welfare institution, after expulsion from school at age ten as well as being committed to a psychiatric clinic for children and youth. Perspectives for social work and therapeutic intervention will be drawn from this analysis. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0801493