Fuzzy States and Complex Trajectories
Observation, modelisation and interpretation of life histories
États flous et trajectoires complexes
Méthodes et SavoirsÉditeur : Ined Éditions
Lieu d’édition : Paris
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 5 décembre 2022
Collection : Méthodes et Savoirs
Année d’édition : 2009
Nombre de pages : 176
Présentation
Individuals experience a variety of different events throughout their life-course – birth, marriage, change of employment, school graduation, etc. – which sometimes occur in rapid succession, and whose timing and definition may seem unclear. Now that survey questionnaires are able to record individual trajectories in greater depth, changes of status can no longer be viewed simply as separate events, but involve a transition process of variable duration. The observation, modelling and interpretation of these fuzzy thresholds between two situations constitute a dynamic field of research in the social sciences. The authors of this manual have pooled their experience of event-history data collection to address the questions of “focus”, i.e. finding the right observation distance to grasp the complexity of life histories, and of time, i.e. choosing the right timescale of detailed information collection. After analysing the links between quantitative and qualitative data, addressing the distinction between facts and perceptions, and deconstructing analysis data categories, they offer a number of conceptual and methodological solutions. This study extends beyond the scope of specific examples to develop a major empirical approach in a still largely unexplored area. This book targets a much broader audience than the community of demographers alone. It concerns everyone in the field of social sciences who, at one moment or another, is required to organize data collection in the field, either for research or practical purposes. The Groupe de réflexion sur l’approche biographique (GRAB) brings together researchers and academics from a range of institutions (INED, IRD, CNRS, etc.) working in a variety of disciplines: demography, geography, sociology, economics, etc. It is building on the experience acquired through 25 event-history surveys conducted to date in France, Africa and Latin America.
Sommaire
Philippe Antoine et Éva Lelièvre
General PresentationPhilippe Antoine et Éva Lelièvre
What is Fuzzy: the Time, the Event or the State?Éva Lelièvre, François Roubaud, Christine Tichit et al.
CHAPTER 1
Factual Data and Perceptions: Fuzziness in Observation and AnalysisPhilippe Antoine, Agnès Adjamagbo, Fofo Amétépé et al.
CHAPTER 2
Union and Separation: Love Stories Are Never SimpleAnnabel Desgrées du Loû, Michèle Ferrand, Hermann Brou et al.
CHAPTER 3
The Many Transitions Around PregnancyValérie Golaz, Catherine Bonvalet, Daniel Delaunay et al.
CHAPTER 4
“Being Housed”: A State with no StatusAnne E. Calvès, Michel Bozon, Alioune Diagne et al.
CHAPTER 5
Transition to Adulthood: Rethinking the Definition and Analysis of First-Time EventsFrançoise Dureau, Cris Beauchemin, Marie-Laure Coubès et al.
CHAPTER 6
Spatial Mobility in Evolving Situations: Cross-Analysis of the Two DynamicsLe texte seul est utilisable sous licence Licence OpenEdition Books. Les autres éléments (illustrations, fichiers annexes importés) sont « Tous droits réservés », sauf mention contraire.
