John Goodwin is a Professor of Sociology and Sociological Practice at the University of Leicester. As a sociologist, John has a broad range of research interests including education to work transitions, sociological research methods, and the history of sociology. He is a recognized expert on the life and sociology of Pearl Jephcott, and he also has a significant interest in the works of Norbert Elias, C. Wright Mills, and Stanley Milgram. In terms of his sociological practice, John has expertise in qualitative secondary analysis, restudies, biographical methods, and the use of unconventional data sources in sociological research.

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• VOLUME ONE: BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH: STARTING POINTS, DEBATES AND APPROACHESBiographical Method - Louis SmithThe Auto/Biographical Society - Ken PlummerAssumptions of the Method - Norman DenzinA Biographical Turn in the Social Sciences? A British-European View - Tom Wengraf, Prue Chamberlayne and Joanna Bornat On Auto/Biography in Sociology - Liz StanleyWeaving Stories - Pamela Cotterill and Gayle LetherbyPersonal Auto/Biographies in Feminist ResearchAutobiography, Intimacy and Ethnography - Deborah Reed-DanahayPractising Sociological Imagination through Writing Sociological Autobiography - Alem KebedeThe Interpretation of Documents and Material Culture - Ian HodderObserving Culture and Social Life - Gregory StanczakDocumentary Photography, Fieldwork and Social ResearchRepositioning Documents in Social Research - Lindsay PriorOral History - Joanna BornatOral and Life History - Julie McLeod and Rachel ThomsonWhat Is Narrative Research? - Molly Andrews, Corinne Squire and Maria Tamboukou The Narrative Potential of the British Birth Cohort Studies - Jane ElliottQualitative Longitudinal Research - Julie McLeod and Rachel ThomsonText, Context and Individual Meaning - Consuelo CorradiRethinking Life Stories in a Hermeneutic FrameworkAnalytic Auto-Ethnography - Leon AndersonAuto-Ethnography in Vocational Psychology - Peter McIlveen et alWearing Your Class on Your SleeveVOLUME TWO: BIOGRAPHICAL INTERVIEWS, ORAL HISTORIES AND LIFE NARRATIVESSecuring Biographical Experience - Norman DenzinCollecting Life Histories - Robert MillerNarrative Methodologies - Liz Stanley and Bogusia TempleSubjects, Silences, Re-Readings and AnalysesMadness to the Method? Using a Narrative Methodology to Analyze Large-Scale Complex Social Phenomena - Liz StanleyNarrating Life Stories in between the Fictional and the Autobiographical - Maarit Leskelä-Kärki Among the Chosen - Thomas BaroneA Collaborative Educational (Auto)biographyBodies, Narratives, Selves and Autobiography - Andrew SparkesThe Example of Lance ArmstrongGrowing up with a Lesbian Mother - Carrie PaechterA Theoretically Based Analysis of Personal ExperienceResearching Groups of Lives - Diana JonesA Collective Biographical Perspective on the Protestant Ethic DebateDeveloping Narrative Research in Supportive and Palliative Care - Amanda Bingley et alThe Focus on Illness NarrativesThe Life History Interview Method - Roberta Goldman et alApplications to Intervention DevelopmentLife Stories and Social Careers - Robin HumphreyAgeing and Social Life in an Ex-Mining TownThe Written Life History as a Prime Research Tool in Adult Education - Catharine WarrenLooking Back, Looking Forward - Susan Feldman and Linsey HowieReflections on Using a Life History Review Tool with Older PeopleEmplacing the Research Encounter - Mark RileyExploring Farm Life Histories′Hidden Ethnography′ - Shane BlackmanCrossing Emotional Borders in Qualitative Accounts of Young People′s Lives′We′re Not Ethnic, We′re Irish!′ - Jennifer Clary-LemonOral Histories and the Discursive Construction of Immigrant IdentityNeighborhood Planning - June Manning ThomasUses of Oral HistoryReminiscing Television - Jukka Kortti and Tuuli Anna MähönenMedia Ethnography, Oral History and Finnish Third Generation Media HistoryConsent in Oral History Interviews - Geertje Boschma, Olive Yonge and Lorraine Mychajlunow Unique ChallengesWho Do We Think We Are? Self and Reflexivity in Social Work Practice - Avril Butler, Deirdre Ford and Claire Tregaskis Statistical Stories? The Use of Narrative in Quantitative Analysis - Jane ElliotVOLUME THREE: OTHER FORMS OF LIFE WRITING: LETTERS, DIARIES AND AUTO/BIOGRAPHYShadows Lying across Her Pages - Liz StanleyEpistolary Aspects of Reading ′The Eventful I′ in Olive Schreiner′s LettersSociological Imaginings and Imagining Sociology - David MorganBodies, Auto/Biographies and Other MysteriesLetters to a Young Baller - Megan ChawanskyExploring Epistolary CriticismIntroduction 2. ′Anxiously Yours′: The Epistolary Self and the Culture of Concern - Nicky HallettThe Epistolary Self and the Culture of ConcernDo Their Words Really Matter? Thematic Analysis of U.S. and Latin American CEO Letters - Roger Conaway and William WardropeConstructing Personal Identities in Holiday Letters - Stephen Banks, Esther Louie and Martha EinersonFive Holiday Letters - Stephen BanksA FictionDear Shit-Shovellers - Sharon Lockyer and Michael PickeringHumour, Censure and the Discourse of ComplaintGuidelines for Quality in Autobiographical Forms of Self-Study Research - Robert Bullough Jr. and Stefinee PinnegarWole Soyinka and Autobiography as Political Unconscious - Ato QuaysonResearching Diaries - Andy AlaszweskiGetting Started - Andy AlaszweskiFinding Diarists and DiariesPublic and Private Meanings in Diaries - Linda BellResearching Family and Child CareThe Personal Is Political - Lauri Hyers, Janet Swim and Robyn MallettUsing Daily Diaries to Examine Everyday Prejudice-Related ExperiencesRecalling the Letter - John DuffyThe Uses of Oral Testimony in Historical Studies of LiteracyMeaning of Work in Dalit Autobiographies - Shashi Bhushan UpadhyayTwo Hours or More away from Most Things - James Haywood Rolling, Jr. and Lace Marie BrogdenRe-Writing Identities from No Fixed AddressVOLUME FOUR: OTHER DOCUMENTS OF LIFE: PHOTOGRAPHS, CYBER DOCUMENTS AND EPHEMERAFamilies, Secrets and Memories - Carol SmartAccessories to a Life Story - Ken PlummerFrom Written Diaries to Video DiariesThe Virtual Objects of Ethnography - Christine HineKin-to-Be - Christine Hegel-CantarellaBetrothal, Legal Documents and Reconfiguring Relational Obligations in Egypt′Freshly Generated for You, and Barack Obama′ - Jill Walker RettbergHow Social Media Represent Your LifeHistory, Living Biography and Self-Narrative - Shay SayreMoving Stories - Nicola Ross et alUsing Mobile Methods to Explore the Everyday Lives of Young People in Public Care′Entering the Blogosphere′ - Nicholas HookwaySome Strategies for Using Blogs in Social ResearchFieldnotes in Public - Nina Wakeford and Kris CohenUsing Blogs for ResearchVisual Storytelling - Sarah Drew, Rony Duncan and Susan SawyerA Beneficial but Challenging Method for Health Research with Young PeopleBeyond the Standard Interview - Anna BagnoliThe Use of Graphic Elicitation and Arts-Based MethodsPrison Tattoos as a Reflection of the Criminal Lifestyle - Alicia Rozycki et alSomething to Show for It - Christine WallThe Place of Mementoes in Women′s Oral Histories of Work′Goods, Chattels and Sundry Items′ - Swati ChattopadhyayConstructing 19th-Century Anglo-Indian Domestic LifeSelf-Enhancement or Self-Coherence? Why People Shift Visual Perspective in Mental Images of the Personal Past and Future - Lisa Libby and Richard EibachInner-City Children in Sharper Focus - Gregory StanczakSociology of Childhood and Photo Elicitation InterviewsVideo in Ethnographic Research - Sarah Pink

John Goodwin is a Professor of Sociology and Sociological Practice at the University of Leicester. As a sociologist, John has a broad range of research interests including education to work transitions, sociological research methods, and the history of sociology. He is a recognized expert on the life and sociology of Pearl Jephcott, and he also has a significant interest in the works of Norbert Elias, C. Wright Mills, and Stanley Milgram. In terms of his sociological practice, John has expertise in qualitative secondary analysis, restudies, biographical methods, and the use of unconventional data sources in sociological research.

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• VOLUME ONE: BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH: STARTING POINTS, DEBATES AND APPROACHESBiographical Method - Louis SmithThe Auto/Biographical Society - Ken PlummerAssumptions of the Method - Norman DenzinA Biographical Turn in the Social Sciences? A British-European View - Tom Wengraf, Prue Chamberlayne and Joanna Bornat On Auto/Biography in Sociology - Liz StanleyWeaving Stories - Pamela Cotterill and Gayle LetherbyPersonal Auto/Biographies in Feminist ResearchAutobiography, Intimacy and Ethnography - Deborah Reed-DanahayPractising Sociological Imagination through Writing Sociological Autobiography - Alem KebedeThe Interpretation of Documents and Material Culture - Ian HodderObserving Culture and Social Life - Gregory StanczakDocumentary Photography, Fieldwork and Social ResearchRepositioning Documents in Social Research - Lindsay PriorOral History - Joanna BornatOral and Life History - Julie McLeod and Rachel ThomsonWhat Is Narrative Research? - Molly Andrews, Corinne Squire and Maria Tamboukou The Narrative Potential of the British Birth Cohort Studies - Jane ElliottQualitative Longitudinal Research - Julie McLeod and Rachel ThomsonText, Context and Individual Meaning - Consuelo CorradiRethinking Life Stories in a Hermeneutic FrameworkAnalytic Auto-Ethnography - Leon AndersonAuto-Ethnography in Vocational Psychology - Peter McIlveen et alWearing Your Class on Your SleeveVOLUME TWO: BIOGRAPHICAL INTERVIEWS, ORAL HISTORIES AND LIFE NARRATIVESSecuring Biographical Experience - Norman DenzinCollecting Life Histories - Robert MillerNarrative Methodologies - Liz Stanley and Bogusia TempleSubjects, Silences, Re-Readings and AnalysesMadness to the Method? Using a Narrative Methodology to Analyze Large-Scale Complex Social Phenomena - Liz StanleyNarrating Life Stories in between the Fictional and the Autobiographical - Maarit Leskelä-Kärki Among the Chosen - Thomas BaroneA Collaborative Educational (Auto)biographyBodies, Narratives, Selves and Autobiography - Andrew SparkesThe Example of Lance ArmstrongGrowing up with a Lesbian Mother - Carrie PaechterA Theoretically Based Analysis of Personal ExperienceResearching Groups of Lives - Diana JonesA Collective Biographical Perspective on the Protestant Ethic DebateDeveloping Narrative Research in Supportive and Palliative Care - Amanda Bingley et alThe Focus on Illness NarrativesThe Life History Interview Method - Roberta Goldman et alApplications to Intervention DevelopmentLife Stories and Social Careers - Robin HumphreyAgeing and Social Life in an Ex-Mining TownThe Written Life History as a Prime Research Tool in Adult Education - Catharine WarrenLooking Back, Looking Forward - Susan Feldman and Linsey HowieReflections on Using a Life History Review Tool with Older PeopleEmplacing the Research Encounter - Mark RileyExploring Farm Life Histories′Hidden Ethnography′ - Shane BlackmanCrossing Emotional Borders in Qualitative Accounts of Young People′s Lives′We′re Not Ethnic, We′re Irish!′ - Jennifer Clary-LemonOral Histories and the Discursive Construction of Immigrant IdentityNeighborhood Planning - June Manning ThomasUses of Oral HistoryReminiscing Television - Jukka Kortti and Tuuli Anna MähönenMedia Ethnography, Oral History and Finnish Third Generation Media HistoryConsent in Oral History Interviews - Geertje Boschma, Olive Yonge and Lorraine Mychajlunow Unique ChallengesWho Do We Think We Are? Self and Reflexivity in Social Work Practice - Avril Butler, Deirdre Ford and Claire Tregaskis Statistical Stories? The Use of Narrative in Quantitative Analysis - Jane ElliotVOLUME THREE: OTHER FORMS OF LIFE WRITING: LETTERS, DIARIES AND AUTO/BIOGRAPHYShadows Lying across Her Pages - Liz StanleyEpistolary Aspects of Reading ′The Eventful I′ in Olive Schreiner′s LettersSociological Imaginings and Imagining Sociology - David MorganBodies, Auto/Biographies and Other MysteriesLetters to a Young Baller - Megan ChawanskyExploring Epistolary CriticismIntroduction 2. ′Anxiously Yours′: The Epistolary Self and the Culture of Concern - Nicky HallettThe Epistolary Self and the Culture of ConcernDo Their Words Really Matter? Thematic Analysis of U.S. and Latin American CEO Letters - Roger Conaway and William WardropeConstructing Personal Identities in Holiday Letters - Stephen Banks, Esther Louie and Martha EinersonFive Holiday Letters - Stephen BanksA FictionDear Shit-Shovellers - Sharon Lockyer and Michael PickeringHumour, Censure and the Discourse of ComplaintGuidelines for Quality in Autobiographical Forms of Self-Study Research - Robert Bullough Jr. and Stefinee PinnegarWole Soyinka and Autobiography as Political Unconscious - Ato QuaysonResearching Diaries - Andy AlaszweskiGetting Started - Andy AlaszweskiFinding Diarists and DiariesPublic and Private Meanings in Diaries - Linda BellResearching Family and Child CareThe Personal Is Political - Lauri Hyers, Janet Swim and Robyn MallettUsing Daily Diaries to Examine Everyday Prejudice-Related ExperiencesRecalling the Letter - John DuffyThe Uses of Oral Testimony in Historical Studies of LiteracyMeaning of Work in Dalit Autobiographies - Shashi Bhushan UpadhyayTwo Hours or More away from Most Things - James Haywood Rolling, Jr. and Lace Marie BrogdenRe-Writing Identities from No Fixed AddressVOLUME FOUR: OTHER DOCUMENTS OF LIFE: PHOTOGRAPHS, CYBER DOCUMENTS AND EPHEMERAFamilies, Secrets and Memories - Carol SmartAccessories to a Life Story - Ken PlummerFrom Written Diaries to Video DiariesThe Virtual Objects of Ethnography - Christine HineKin-to-Be - Christine Hegel-CantarellaBetrothal, Legal Documents and Reconfiguring Relational Obligations in Egypt′Freshly Generated for You, and Barack Obama′ - Jill Walker RettbergHow Social Media Represent Your LifeHistory, Living Biography and Self-Narrative - Shay SayreMoving Stories - Nicola Ross et alUsing Mobile Methods to Explore the Everyday Lives of Young People in Public Care′Entering the Blogosphere′ - Nicholas HookwaySome Strategies for Using Blogs in Social ResearchFieldnotes in Public - Nina Wakeford and Kris CohenUsing Blogs for ResearchVisual Storytelling - Sarah Drew, Rony Duncan and Susan SawyerA Beneficial but Challenging Method for Health Research with Young PeopleBeyond the Standard Interview - Anna BagnoliThe Use of Graphic Elicitation and Arts-Based MethodsPrison Tattoos as a Reflection of the Criminal Lifestyle - Alicia Rozycki et alSomething to Show for It - Christine WallThe Place of Mementoes in Women′s Oral Histories of Work′Goods, Chattels and Sundry Items′ - Swati ChattopadhyayConstructing 19th-Century Anglo-Indian Domestic LifeSelf-Enhancement or Self-Coherence? Why People Shift Visual Perspective in Mental Images of the Personal Past and Future - Lisa Libby and Richard EibachInner-City Children in Sharper Focus - Gregory StanczakSociology of Childhood and Photo Elicitation InterviewsVideo in Ethnographic Research - Sarah Pink

John Goodwin is a Professor of Sociology and Sociological Practice at the University of Leicester. As a sociologist, John has a broad range of research interests including education to work transitions, sociological research methods, and the history of sociology. He is a recognized expert on the life and sociology of Pearl Jephcott, and he also has a significant interest in the works of Norbert Elias, C. Wright Mills, and Stanley Milgram. In terms of his sociological practice, John has expertise in qualitative secondary analysis, restudies, biographical methods, and the use of unconventional data sources in sociological research.

Select Guide Rating

• VOLUME ONE: BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH: STARTING POINTS, DEBATES AND APPROACHESBiographical Method - Louis SmithThe Auto/Biographical Society - Ken PlummerAssumptions of the Method - Norman DenzinA Biographical Turn in the Social Sciences? A British-European View - Tom Wengraf, Prue Chamberlayne and Joanna Bornat On Auto/Biography in Sociology - Liz StanleyWeaving Stories - Pamela Cotterill and Gayle LetherbyPersonal Auto/Biographies in Feminist ResearchAutobiography, Intimacy and Ethnography - Deborah Reed-DanahayPractising Sociological Imagination through Writing Sociological Autobiography - Alem KebedeThe Interpretation of Documents and Material Culture - Ian HodderObserving Culture and Social Life - Gregory StanczakDocumentary Photography, Fieldwork and Social ResearchRepositioning Documents in Social Research - Lindsay PriorOral History - Joanna BornatOral and Life History - Julie McLeod and Rachel ThomsonWhat Is Narrative Research? - Molly Andrews, Corinne Squire and Maria Tamboukou The Narrative Potential of the British Birth Cohort Studies - Jane ElliottQualitative Longitudinal Research - Julie McLeod and Rachel ThomsonText, Context and Individual Meaning - Consuelo CorradiRethinking Life Stories in a Hermeneutic FrameworkAnalytic Auto-Ethnography - Leon AndersonAuto-Ethnography in Vocational Psychology - Peter McIlveen et alWearing Your Class on Your SleeveVOLUME TWO: BIOGRAPHICAL INTERVIEWS, ORAL HISTORIES AND LIFE NARRATIVESSecuring Biographical Experience - Norman DenzinCollecting Life Histories - Robert MillerNarrative Methodologies - Liz Stanley and Bogusia TempleSubjects, Silences, Re-Readings and AnalysesMadness to the Method? Using a Narrative Methodology to Analyze Large-Scale Complex Social Phenomena - Liz StanleyNarrating Life Stories in between the Fictional and the Autobiographical - Maarit Leskelä-Kärki Among the Chosen - Thomas BaroneA Collaborative Educational (Auto)biographyBodies, Narratives, Selves and Autobiography - Andrew SparkesThe Example of Lance ArmstrongGrowing up with a Lesbian Mother - Carrie PaechterA Theoretically Based Analysis of Personal ExperienceResearching Groups of Lives - Diana JonesA Collective Biographical Perspective on the Protestant Ethic DebateDeveloping Narrative Research in Supportive and Palliative Care - Amanda Bingley et alThe Focus on Illness NarrativesThe Life History Interview Method - Roberta Goldman et alApplications to Intervention DevelopmentLife Stories and Social Careers - Robin HumphreyAgeing and Social Life in an Ex-Mining TownThe Written Life History as a Prime Research Tool in Adult Education - Catharine WarrenLooking Back, Looking Forward - Susan Feldman and Linsey HowieReflections on Using a Life History Review Tool with Older PeopleEmplacing the Research Encounter - Mark RileyExploring Farm Life Histories′Hidden Ethnography′ - Shane BlackmanCrossing Emotional Borders in Qualitative Accounts of Young People′s Lives′We′re Not Ethnic, We′re Irish!′ - Jennifer Clary-LemonOral Histories and the Discursive Construction of Immigrant IdentityNeighborhood Planning - June Manning ThomasUses of Oral HistoryReminiscing Television - Jukka Kortti and Tuuli Anna MähönenMedia Ethnography, Oral History and Finnish Third Generation Media HistoryConsent in Oral History Interviews - Geertje Boschma, Olive Yonge and Lorraine Mychajlunow Unique ChallengesWho Do We Think We Are? Self and Reflexivity in Social Work Practice - Avril Butler, Deirdre Ford and Claire Tregaskis Statistical Stories? The Use of Narrative in Quantitative Analysis - Jane ElliotVOLUME THREE: OTHER FORMS OF LIFE WRITING: LETTERS, DIARIES AND AUTO/BIOGRAPHYShadows Lying across Her Pages - Liz StanleyEpistolary Aspects of Reading ′The Eventful I′ in Olive Schreiner′s LettersSociological Imaginings and Imagining Sociology - David MorganBodies, Auto/Biographies and Other MysteriesLetters to a Young Baller - Megan ChawanskyExploring Epistolary CriticismIntroduction 2. ′Anxiously Yours′: The Epistolary Self and the Culture of Concern - Nicky HallettThe Epistolary Self and the Culture of ConcernDo Their Words Really Matter? Thematic Analysis of U.S. and Latin American CEO Letters - Roger Conaway and William WardropeConstructing Personal Identities in Holiday Letters - Stephen Banks, Esther Louie and Martha EinersonFive Holiday Letters - Stephen BanksA FictionDear Shit-Shovellers - Sharon Lockyer and Michael PickeringHumour, Censure and the Discourse of ComplaintGuidelines for Quality in Autobiographical Forms of Self-Study Research - Robert Bullough Jr. and Stefinee PinnegarWole Soyinka and Autobiography as Political Unconscious - Ato QuaysonResearching Diaries - Andy AlaszweskiGetting Started - Andy AlaszweskiFinding Diarists and DiariesPublic and Private Meanings in Diaries - Linda BellResearching Family and Child CareThe Personal Is Political - Lauri Hyers, Janet Swim and Robyn MallettUsing Daily Diaries to Examine Everyday Prejudice-Related ExperiencesRecalling the Letter - John DuffyThe Uses of Oral Testimony in Historical Studies of LiteracyMeaning of Work in Dalit Autobiographies - Shashi Bhushan UpadhyayTwo Hours or More away from Most Things - James Haywood Rolling, Jr. and Lace Marie BrogdenRe-Writing Identities from No Fixed AddressVOLUME FOUR: OTHER DOCUMENTS OF LIFE: PHOTOGRAPHS, CYBER DOCUMENTS AND EPHEMERAFamilies, Secrets and Memories - Carol SmartAccessories to a Life Story - Ken PlummerFrom Written Diaries to Video DiariesThe Virtual Objects of Ethnography - Christine HineKin-to-Be - Christine Hegel-CantarellaBetrothal, Legal Documents and Reconfiguring Relational Obligations in Egypt′Freshly Generated for You, and Barack Obama′ - Jill Walker RettbergHow Social Media Represent Your LifeHistory, Living Biography and Self-Narrative - Shay SayreMoving Stories - Nicola Ross et alUsing Mobile Methods to Explore the Everyday Lives of Young People in Public Care′Entering the Blogosphere′ - Nicholas HookwaySome Strategies for Using Blogs in Social ResearchFieldnotes in Public - Nina Wakeford and Kris CohenUsing Blogs for ResearchVisual Storytelling - Sarah Drew, Rony Duncan and Susan SawyerA Beneficial but Challenging Method for Health Research with Young PeopleBeyond the Standard Interview - Anna BagnoliThe Use of Graphic Elicitation and Arts-Based MethodsPrison Tattoos as a Reflection of the Criminal Lifestyle - Alicia Rozycki et alSomething to Show for It - Christine WallThe Place of Mementoes in Women′s Oral Histories of Work′Goods, Chattels and Sundry Items′ - Swati ChattopadhyayConstructing 19th-Century Anglo-Indian Domestic LifeSelf-Enhancement or Self-Coherence? Why People Shift Visual Perspective in Mental Images of the Personal Past and Future - Lisa Libby and Richard EibachInner-City Children in Sharper Focus - Gregory StanczakSociology of Childhood and Photo Elicitation InterviewsVideo in Ethnographic Research - Sarah Pink