Alicja ROKUSZEWSKA-PAWEŁEK: The narrative interview as a source of information

The article introduces one of the best developed and most influential concept of narrative interview, which has provided theoretical inspiration and methodological foundation for biographical research in many fields of social sciences. The author presents basic assumptions and theoretical principles of this unique technique of data-collecting, the procedures of analyzing the data, and the main directions of empirical research in this field. She also points a narrative interview as a source of different kinds of informations concerning courses of life and formation of social identity, participation in historical events, macrosocial processes and social movements, social words and social milieu.