We all have a story inside of us waiting to be told!

Your loved ones and future generations will at some time wish they knew more about your life and the things youve learned.

What is the difference between a biography and an autobiography?

Biography

Autobiograph y

An account of someone's life written by someone else.

An account of a person's life written by that person.

ASSISTED AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ROM HARR

This method was designed by Rom Harre with the psychiatrist De Waele.

WHAT IS AN ASSISTED AUTOBIOGRAPHY?

It is model of analysis and production of life stories, developed by Rom Harr, the model is useful because of its pragmatism and its systematic methods.Harr defines it as one of three paths to knowledge society. The technique of assisted autobiography accentuates the analyst's participation in the construction of subjects account, in this case the researcher does not reconstruct the story by himself, but does so in collaboration with the subject.

ETHOGENY
Rom Harr: explains how I account for my behavior in particular situations. Ethogeny: the study of how I understand my actions with a predictable sequence of acts, called episodes (an event with a beginning & end that all people would agree on).

It helps determine what the episode means and how people understand the acts involved in it.

Assisted autobiography purpose

This method allows us to identify key situations in each persons life to gain access to their projects and personal theories. Harrs approach provides the means for understanding why a person moves from situation to situation.

Assisted Autobiography Operating Assumptions

Moral carreer

The ideographic Approach

Biography and Diary

Idiographic Approach Negotiating process

The author

- The Autobiography - The temporal segmentation

-The Distribution - The consensus

- The negotiation - The renovation of the team

-The thematic segmentation -The distribution -The consent narration

-The breaking and the contrast -The negotiation story

Advantages and Disadvantages

ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES

-Old problem of authenticity document, which refers to the difficulty of verifying the information obtained. You are never sure that the documents are authentic or somehow they are forged. You can solve that problem with the stories crossed or third interviews. -It also has to do with the exact day of the life history and biographical method that occurs when the researcher overestimates the possibilities of the method. When the investigator believes that one or more accounts have all the information needed to reach valid conclusions about a particular social problem. -Other practical difficulties are the time factor, combined with the strong dependence on a few cases in obtaining the main information. The difficulty of finding a person willing to work extra time than the one required, in addition to hit the

-The retrospective and longitudinal character of the information collected allows a thorough knowledge of the chronology and the contexts in which occurs the story told. -The need to do several interviews to the case or cases under study allows a higher quality of data. -The strength of the assisted autobiography in the field of study of society is that it puts the emphasis on the goals of social experience, versus objectivism of the experiment, survey and systematic observation.

Harr proposes a serie of assumptions or procedural guidelines which lead the process of social investigation.The basic precepts can be summarized in the following manner.

Moral Career The ideographic Approach Biography and Diary

MORAL CAREER
Every individual developes a moral career, consequently is the protagonist of a single social story which include: Attitudes and beliefs that other people have of the protagonist The attitudes and beliefs of himself that he has formed from interpretation of other peoples beliefs.

Moral Career :Goffman

Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates

To refer to any social trajectory made for a person in the course of his life.

 Public space

Limited region

Limited range of critical events

Social Institutions which provide the critical events.

Standard moral career Aventure Free construction of institutions Systematic structure

Not in large groups

One by one

Both of them narrate vital events of a persons life cycle.

Diary Contemporary In fieri

Biography Revive events

A posteriori

The new element of Assisted Autobiography is the emphasized participation of the researcher or scientific, in the assisted autobiography the story is constructed and the story life is reconstructed by the author and the

The scientif makes contributions that can only be accepted by the author.

To increase in the participant the knwoledge of his own life story.

Negotiation

This is the kind of person I am.

METHODS AND TECHNIQUES

In this context we can understand the usefulness of resources to the Assited Autobiography , this one has stages and techniques.

A protagonist Person who takes responsability trough a contract to cooperate with the project. Team of experts Team of professionals in the social context where the protagonist has developed his professional career. This team includes at least two experts in social analysis (psychiatrists, psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, social workers, educators)

Team leader Responsible for the last analysis

B) THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY

c) The temporal segmentation

d) The Distribution

) The consensus

f) The negotiation

g) The renewal team

h) The thematic segmentation

i) The distribution

 Temporal perspective. Social Ecology. Socioeconomics conditions of life.

Family and groups. Cultural norms of values, norms, roles and expectative. Institutional situation.

Auto-description and interpretation. Interest, occupational, activities and free time . Purpose , aspirations and conflicts.

j) The consent narration