Daniel Bertaux Research Articles

Between Grandma and Granddaughter – The Process of Becoming a Black Woman in a Racist Society. Analysis of Intergenerational Transmission on the Example of bell hooks’ autobiography Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood

The aim of the essay is to discuss an intergenerational transmission of family history and its impact on the process of becoming a Black woman in a racist society. The example chosen for analysis is the autobiography of bell hooks, Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood (1996), which is a story about girlhood. (B)ell hooks is a pen name of Gloria Jean Watkins, an African-American scholar and writer whose childhood and adolescence were during the period of racial segregation and desegregation in the 1960s of the twentieth century. (B)ell hooks writes Bone Black to reflect on being a Black girl growing up in racially segregated American society in the 60s of the twentieth century. She shows the historical and political contexts of her growing up, however, it is the local community and intergenerational family ties that she places at the center of her process of becoming the woman: bell hooks. Relationships with women, particularly a relationship between grandmother and granddaughter are of great significance in this process. The essay begins with a brief summary of the biography of bell hooks and a description of Bone Black, with particular emphasis put on the author’s interand intragenerational relationships with women. Next, I will move on to discuss the intergenerational transmissions of family history and their impact on the process of becoming a woman. For this purpose, I will refer to the life story concept introduced by Daniel Bertaux (2016), and the notion of subjective resources created by Catherine Delcroix (1999, 2014), in order to discuss the importance of intergenerational transmission of life stories in the process of becoming the woman knowns as “bell hooks.”

Transiciones a la adultez de jóvenes de segunda generación de origen mexicano en el sur de California: trayectorias educativas y laborales

El objetivo de este artículo es conocer cómo influye la pertenencia a la segunda generación en los procesos de transición a la adultez de jóvenes de origen mexicano en el sur de California, tomando como ejes de análisis las trayectorias educativas y laborales. El enfoque biográfico, concretamente la perspectiva etnosociológica de Daniel Bertaux a través de los relatos de vida, ha sido la técnica empleada. Los relatos de los jóvenes coinciden en que algunos de los aspectos predominantes en sus trayectorias han sido: el tipo de centro educativo al que asistieron, las autoidentificaciones étnicas, las relaciones entre el ámbito educativo y el desarrollo de las trayectorias laborales, la influencia de los distintos capitales, la cohorte de pertenencia y el estatus legal.

Autoidentificaciones étnicas de jóvenes de segunda generación de origen mexicano en California

El objetivo de este artículo es explorar las autoidentificaciones étnicas de los jóvenes de segunda generación de origen mexicano. Para ello se toman tres elementos del contexto sociopolítico estadounidense que se encuentra en relación con sus autoidentificaciones, estas son: el propio modelo identitario estadounidense, el imaginario social sobre el mexicano y las categorías censales sobre la etnicidad hispana/latina y la raza. El enfoque biográfico, concretamente la perspectiva etnosociológica de Daniel Bertaux a través de los relatos de vida, ha sido la técnica empleada. La investigación se llevó a cabo durante 2016, en el sur de California donde se entrevistó a 51 jóvenes. Los relatos constatan que algunas de las categorías institucionales llevan a que sean parte de las autoidentificaciones de los informantes, o estos se adjudican muchas de las características fenotípicas y/o raciales que se les atribuyen a dichas categorías. Como limitación se encuentra la imposibilidad de incluir otros relatos.

Los relatos de vida como técnica para abordar la dimensión estructural del mundo social

En este artículo se reflexiona sobre losrelatos de vida para conocer condicionesestructurales, posicionesde clase social y mecanismosobjetivos de funcionamientode ámbitosespecíficos de actividadhumana. En la primeraparte se retoman aportesde Daniel Bertaux sobrelas características de losrelatos de vida y sobre latécnica de graficar trayectoriaslaborales y educativasfamiliares en árbolesgenealógicos. Luego, apartir de un ejemplo deinvestigación empírica sobretrayectorias de claseen Buenos Aires, se destacanlas posibilidades queexhibió la aplicación deestas técnicas y algunosatributos adicionales a los que habían sidoseñalados por Bertaux.

Relações sócio-familiares e a construção da personalidade da pessoa transexual

Objetivo: Descrever o impacto das relações sociofamiliares na construção da personalidade das pessoas transexuais. Metodologia: Pesquisa descritiva, qualitativa, utilizou o método Narrativa de vida, realizada no período de 2016 a 2019, com 19 participantes transexuais e 14 familiares. Os dados foram coletados por entrevista narrativa, realizou-se a análise compreensiva de Daniel Bertaux e adotou o referencial teórico de Michel Foucault. Resultados: Evidenciou-se que a família e outras instituições sociais reproduzem e afirmam dogmas normatizadores e produzem ações de disciplina e controle sobre os corpos das pessoas transexuais durante o processo de amadurecimento, a fim de coagir a vivência das identidades de gênero. As relações intersubjetivas fortes aparecem como uma possibilidade de inversão dessa rejeição a aceitação da transexualidade. Conclusão: A aceitação sociofamiliar é um desafio para a aceitação e inclusão social das pessoas transexuais pela família e demais segmentos sociais.

Review Essay: Daniel Bertauxs "Leuchtrakete" Lebenserzählung: Von methodologischen Leerstellen und materialistischen Impulsen

In dem Review Essay wird eine Einordnung des Buches Die Lebenserzahlung von Daniel BERTAUX (2018) in die Diskurswelt der deutschsprachigen bzw. im deutschsprachigen Raum verankerten Biografieforschung vorgenommen. Dazu werden die theoretischen Begriffe des ethnosoziologischen Forschungsansatzes Daniel BERTAUXs vorgestellt. Einige zentrale Begriffsverwendungen des Autors (z.B. Objektivitat und soziale Welten) werden der Kritik unterzogen. Fur die im deutschsprachigen Raum verankerte Biografieforschung werden im Besonderen der symbolische Interaktionismus und Fritz SCHUTZE sowie die Arbeiten von Gabriele ROSENTHAL, Ursula APITZSCH und Lena INOWLOCKI beachtet. BERTAUXs Verbindung von sozialen Welten und Lebenserzahlungen wird in Rekurs auf Anja WILDHAGEN und Carsten DETKA diskutiert. Ich komme zu dem Schluss, dass wegen zentraler theoretischer Leerstellen in Die Lebenserzahlung eine Verknupfung zur theoretisch sehr differenziert arbeitenden deutschsprachigen Biografie forschung eher schwierig erscheint. Hinsichtlich konsequenter Hinwendung zu materialistischen Fragen kann Die Lebenserzahlung aber durchaus mit Gewinn gelesen werden.

Bref rappel de trois problèmes méthodologiques de l’histoire de vie en sociologie

Brief Review of Three Methodological Problems of Life Histories in Sociology: This article reviews the popularity of life histories in sociology in the early 1970s, especially in light of the work done at that time by Daniel Bertaux. Forty years later, what can be said of it? After a brief historical overview, we consider: 1. The issue of representativeness; 2. The status conferred on common sense; and 3. The rigor of the analysis developed on the basis of a life history in the framework of grounded theory. These three topics are discussed so as to show possible solutions to the methodological problems they raise. A simple example of the analysis of a life history illustrates this point.

Oral History and Revenge in Annie Proulx's "The Half-Skinned Steer"

Stories are the recordings of history and serve as reminders of personal and cultural struggle. In The Medieval Icelandic Saga and Oral Tradition, Gisli Sigurdsson writes that before the development of written language, oral history "became a kind of knowledge bank" (57) in which stories of success, as well as those of tragedy, were retold to subsequent generations. A study conducted by Daniel Bertaux and Isabelle Bertaux-Wiame concludes that "earlier generations may very well determine the shape of the trajectories of future genera­tions through what it passes on to them [. . .] for the purpose of generating foreseeable conduct" (87). While this study provides evidence that positive behaviours may be transmitted to descendents, it also implies that destructive acts may be channelled through history and generate foreseeable negative conduct. The pain of struggle, revenge, and retaliation arises from behaviours which may be perpetuated across many generations; often the original source of the feud is forgotten, yet a desire for vengeance persists.The originating concept for Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx's story "The Half-Skinned Steer" is, as the author notes, "based on an old Icelandic folktale, 'Porgeir's Bull'" (Proulx 10). Proulx's reconfiguration of the themes of revenge within this tale demonstrate how 'old' thinking can slow progress and resurrect long-forgotten grievances. In "The Half-Skinned Steer", the author relocates and remodulates the traditional folk tale to address particular issues and behaviours - work ethic, diet and vengeance - within the setting of the contemporary American West. This article will examine the ways in which Proulx reconfigures the Icelandic folktale "Porgeir's Bull" to explore intersecting themes of persistence, human arrogance, and nature's revenge on man.

Living through the Soviet System by Daniel Bertaux , Paul Thompson , Anna Rotkirch (review)

reviews 743 Bertaux, Daniel, Thompson, Paul and Rotkirch, Anna (eds). LivingThrough the SovietSystem. Memory and Narrative Series. Transaction, New Brunswick, NJ and London, 2005. x + 277 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $29.95 (paperback). Beginning in the heady days of perestroika and continuing throughmost of the 1990s, Russia was awash with a flood of first-person narratives. These came in a variety of forms, including journalistic interviews, life histories, written autobiographies and memoirs. The content of these materials ranged from storiesof repression and victimhood to accounts of everyday life.Perhaps most interestingly, the authors or subjects of the life histories were often ordinary people ? (present and former) peasants, workers, pensioners and professionals, as well as the generally more well-represented intellectuals. The end of the Soviet Union generated an amazing new category of sources. Most scholars, Russian and foreign alike, have yet to take advantage of these new sources. LivingThrough the SovietSystemis therefore an especially valuable work. This book isan anthology of articles by an international collective of authors, many of whom have participated in generating the new sources. In the firsthalf of the 1990s, Daniel Bertaux, of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales inParis, and a team ofRussian scholars, collected fiftytransgenera tional case histories of families living inMoscow. Paul Thompson and his associates at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at theUniver sity of London gathered forty-seven life-story interviews inMoscow and St Petersburg in the early 1990s. Anna Rotkirch of theUniversity of Helsinki was instrumental in conducting some sixty-eight interviews on sexuality with Russian teachers and psychologists. The interview work of the book's three editors, in combination with a series of other large interview projects surveyed in the book's epilogue and in combination with a massive amount of pub lished, first-person narratives, provides the basis for a huge new source of documentation on modern Russian history. The authors represented in this anthology showcase some of these new sources. If there is a general thesis argued here, it is that which is presented by Bertaux. He suggests the existence of a 'transgenerational moral economy' based on egalitarian values reinforced by the Communist system but originat ing in theOrthodox Church and the village commune. Although this is not necessarily a new argument (nor does Bertaux make that claim), what is fascinating about thisvariation of the thesis is theway inwhich the Stalinist system worked both to reinforce and recreate this particular ethos, especially among urban working-class barracks communities. Victoria Semenova dem onstrates this thesis as well in her discussion of the communal apartment and what she describes as 'equality in poverty'. In an exceptional essay, Ekaterina Foteeva makes use of interviews to examine the experiences of members of the former privileged classes who remained inRussia after theRevolution of 1917. She shows that representa tivesof these groups were not simply 'victims',but insteadmade use of various adaptation strategies to cope with the new system and to achieve what she labels 'social status restoration'. Irina Korovushkina Paert also uses oral 744 SEER, 86, 4, OCTOBER 2008 history to explore the adaptive strategies of marginalized groups, in this case Old Believers in theUrals. Paert's essay is an extremelywell-researched and well-argued analysis of the coping mechanisms of Old Believers. She documents the survival of theOld Belief through combinations of resistance and adaptation. She argues that accommodation to the Soviet system did not necessarily mean compliance. Instead, Old Believers coped with the new government inmuch the same way as they had with the old government, viewing state repression as inevitable and often comparing theworst of the Soviet repression with the early days ofmartyrdom of theOld Belief. Essays by Anna Rotkirch, Victoria Semenova and Paul Thompson, and Marianne Liljestrom discuss women's experience in the Soviet Union, empha sizing agency and subjecthood in a departure from the traditional stress on victimhood and passivity. Nanci Adler presents a series of interviews with returnees from the Gulag, analysing the difficulties of return and the tendency of Soviet society toward a kind of double repression (political repres sion followed by a more Freudian type of repression of the very fact of the experience). Naomi Roslyn Galtz offers a...

Living through the Soviet System. Ed. Daniel Bertaux, Paul Thompson, and Anna Roddrch. Memory and Narrative Series. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2005. x, 277 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Tables. $29.95, paper.

Living through the Soviet System. Ed. Daniel Bertaux, Paul Thompson, and Anna Roddrch. Memory and Narrative Series. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2005. x, 277 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Tables. $29.95, paper. - Volume 66 Issue 1

On Living through Soviet Russia ed. by Daniel Bertaux, Paul Thompson, Anna Rotkirch (review)

On Living through Soviet Russia ed. by Daniel Bertaux, Paul Thompson, Anna Rotkirch (review)

Pathways to Social Class: A Qualitative Approach to Social Mobility. By Daniel Bertaux and Paul Thompson, with contributions by Rudolf Andorka, Iabelle Bertaux-Wiame, Giovanni Contini, Brian Elliott, Mike Savage, and David Vincent. Clarendon Press, 1997. 334 pp. Cloth, $78.00

Pathways to Social Class: A Qualitative Approach to Social Mobility. By Daniel Bertaux and Paul Thompson, with contributions by Rudolf Andorka, Iabelle Bertaux-Wiame, Giovanni Contini, Brian Elliott, Mike Savage, and David Vincent. Clarendon Press, 1997. 334 pp. Cloth, $78.00

Between Generations: Family Models, Myths and Memories, The International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories, Volume II. Edited by Daniel Bertaux and Paul Thompson. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993). 240 pp. Hardbound, $45.00.

Between Generations: Family Models, Myths and Memories, The International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories, Volume II. Edited by Daniel Bertaux and Paul Thompson. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993). 240 pp. Hardbound, $45.00.

The life history: Hub of history, psychology, and sociology. William McKinley Runyan. Life histories and psychobiography: Explorations in theory and method. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. xiii + 288 pp. $19.95 (cloth). Daniel Bertaux, ed. Biography and society: The life history approach in the social sciences. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1981. 309 pp. $25.00 (cloth)

Journal of the History of the Behavioral SciencesVolume 20, Issue 2 p. 187-191 Book Review The life history: Hub of history, psychology, and sociology. William McKinley Runyan. Life histories and psychobiography: Explorations in theory and method. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. xiii + 288 pp. $19.95 (cloth). Daniel Bertaux, ed. Biography and society: The life history approach in the social sciences. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1981. 309 pp. $25.00 (cloth) T. L. Brink, T. L. BrinkSearch for more papers by this author T. L. Brink, T. L. BrinkSearch for more papers by this author First published: April 1984 https://doi.org/10.1002/1520-6696(198404)20:2<187::AID-JHBS2300200210>3.0.CO;2-OAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume20, Issue2April 1984Pages 187-191 RelatedInformation

Reply to Daniel Bertaux's Assessment

Previous articleNext article No AccessCommentary and DebateReply to Daniel Bertaux's AssessmentMaurice Garnier, and Lawrence E. HazelriggMaurice Garnier Search for more articles by this author , and Lawrence E. Hazelrigg Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by American Journal of Sociology Volume 82, Number 2Sep., 1976 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/226318 Views: 1Total views on this site Citations: 2Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1976 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:ROBERT M. HAUSER The Structure of Social Relationships: Cross-Classifications of Mobility, Kinship, and Friendship, (Jan 1982): 205–267.https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-333060-4.50016-4David Schweitzer Social mobility, status attainment, and class formation: Theoretical, ideological, and methodological problems in international comparative research, Sociological Spectrum 1, no.33 (Jul 2010): 209–246.https://doi.org/10.1080/02732173.1981.9981634

Suzuki Shoko: relato da trajetória de vida de uma mulher ceramista entre o Brasil e o Japão

This article intends to présent the life-story of Suzuki Shoko, a Japanese ceramic artist living in Brazil，following the precepts of the récits de vie as defined by Daniel Bertaux (2000). Based on Renato Ortiz’s concept of identity as a symbolic construction made in relation to a referent (2000)， it is important to know the historical，social and cultural context of these céramistes trajectory. The role of the Japanese woman in the beginning of the Showa Era (1929-1945)，the experience of the Second World War，the émigration of Japanese artists to the “New World” and the appropriation of the Japanese “tradition” in Brazil are elements that will permeate these ceramist’s discourse, whose story is marked by the transcultural experience and by the constant negotiation of her identity in the relation with the “other”.