eprintid: 10066783 rev_number: 29 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/06/67/83 datestamp: 2019-12-17 16:13:24 lastmod: 2020-02-12 22:13:49 status_changed: 2019-12-17 16:18:59 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Thonfeld, C title: Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Research-Elicited Data for Longitudinal Analysis. The Case of Oral History Data on World War II Forced Labourers ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: A01 divisions: B03 divisions: C03 divisions: F21 divisions: K56 keywords: Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, History, History Of Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary, Social Sciences - Other Topics, Longitudinal Analysis, Oral History, qualitative interviews, Archiving, secondary analysis, Data Access, Cultural Memory note: This document is made available under a CC BY Licence (Attribution). For more Information see: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 abstract: Since a number of disciplines have developed methodological and interpretive approaches towards Oral History, the dialogue between History and Sociology about the possible use of life story interviews for longitudinal analysis has been under pressure from a variety of influences in a rapidly evolving discursive field. While psychology and brain research have thrown the scientific substance of narrative interviews as such into doubt, media and museums assign strictly defined roles to interview materials to serve their representative needs. At the same time, paradigm shifts and terminological trends within social and cultural sciences further narrow the room for manoeuvre for Oral History as far as opening up of a perspective on individual handling of past events within a biography is concerned. Drawing on experiences of an interview project with World War II forced labourers, the article explores what contribution Oral History can still make to a qualitative dimension of longitudinal analysis. date: 2009 date_type: published publisher: GESIS LEIBNIZ INST SOCIAL SCIENCES official_url: https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.34.2009.3.60-70 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1620528 doi: 10.12759/hsr.34.2009.3.60-70 lyricists_name: Thonfeld, Christoph lyricists_id: CTHON56 actors_name: Jayawardana, Anusha actors_id: AJAYA51 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung volume: 34 number: 3 pagerange: 60-70 pages: 11 issn: 0172-6404 citation: Thonfeld, C; (2009) Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Research-Elicited Data for Longitudinal Analysis. The Case of Oral History Data on World War II Forced Labourers. Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung , 34 (3) pp. 60-70. 10.12759/hsr.34.2009.3.60-70 <https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.34.2009.3.60-70>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10066783/1/Thonfeld_ssoar-hsr-2009-no_3__no_129-thonfeld-collecting_and_interpreting_qualitative_research-elicited.pdf