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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

What is the difference between a biography and an autobiography?

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Biography

Autobiograp hy

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An account of someone's life written by someone

An account of a person's life

ASSISTED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

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ASSISTED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Rom Harr

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

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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. 2 /1
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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.
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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.

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Assisted Autobiography Operating Assumptions

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Advantages and Disadvantages

Advantages and Disadvantages

-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 2 emphasis on the goals of /1 5 /2 social experience, versus 6 objectivism of the

-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.

Operating Assumptions 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.

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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 2 he has formed from /1 5 interpretation of other /2 6

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Idiographic Approach

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Biography and Diary

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

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A posteriori

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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 2 /1 the author and 25 6/ the

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Methods and techniques In this context we can understand the usefulness of resources to the Assited Autobiography , this one has stages and techniques. The Team The Assisted Autobiography is basically a team work. First the team must be set up. The team can be more or less sophisticated but, in any case, it must include these three basic elements:
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A protagonist Person who takes responsability trough a contract to cooperate with the project.
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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)
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Team leader Responsible for the last analysis

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b) The Autobiography
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c) The temporal segmentation

The director of the study divides the narration in a series of phase or chronological moments of the biography. Each of these temporal cuts is equivalent a different phase of the lifes protagonist.

d) The Distribution

Each team member receives a cut or temporal phase of autography of the protagonist and undertake in solitary the task of rebuilding the rest of the biography, using for this, to their knowledge, both of the common sense, as their professional specialty.
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) The consensus
When all elements of the team have reconstructed the biography starts to work on a Single biography consensus among all team members who have made available to the rest their own individual stories. The consensus story is presented to the protagonist.

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f) The negotiation

The consent narration is presented to the protagonist (who is unknown to the experts until this point) so that, both-protagonist and experts negotiate one common autobiography narration.
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g) The renewal team

It begins a second phase with the selection of a new team of experts in which only the protagonist and the director will be the same. The characteristics of the experts are the same as in the first phase

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h) The thematic segmentation

The negotiated narration during the first phase is segmented again, but this time thematically in cuts like the job, education, relationships.

i) The distribution
This story, thematically fragmented, it is handed back to the team of experts so that they attempt a reconstruction of the same individual subject.
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j) The consent narration

The team meets to develop a consensus text in which they condense the items contained in the n initial story without stadisticsatr or quantitative lp analysis, indicating the gaps deand absences that o will be investigated. (the l reasons for such tu bt omissions). su e

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reconstruct, justify and explain the history according to the protagonist point of view. Therefore, the protagonist correct the mistakes they made 2 by breaking what has been done /1 to /25get the real meaning of 6 actions.

The final story

Finally, the director of the research together with his team and the different experts make the conclusion of the different consensus and stories to interpret and give meaning to every episode in the protagonist history.

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