The life trajectories modality of oral history

• Main Authors: Rita de Cássia Gonçalves, Teresa Kleba Lisboa
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2007-05-01
• Series: Revista Katálysis
• Subjects: pesquisa qualitativa; pressupostos epistemológicos; história oral; trajetórias de vida; qualitative research; epistemological presumptions; oral history; life trajectories
• Online Access: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/katalysis/article/view/1145

This article seeks to explore the potential of qualitative research. It presents the life trajectory modality of the oral history method, to discuss the possibility of its utilization in scientific research in the Social Work profession. The epistemological foundations of oral history are discussed to establish its scientific character. The life trajectories modality is presented as a historic and social construction that utilizes different interview techniques to give voice to previously invisible subjects, indicating the principal phases of the methodological procedures used in this approach. The conclusions highlight the importance of the construction of this model and its projection as a research proposal that implies a process of understanding and analyzing the social universes that are contextualized and interconnected, considering the realities of the life trajectories of the subjects studied.