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The Usefulness of Indepth Life History Interviews for Exploring the Role of Social Structure and Human Agency in Youth Transitions

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This paper discusses the usefulness of indepth life history interviews in illustrating the role of social structure and human agency in youth transitions. Drawing on sociological theory and youth transition research, the paper highlights how the role of structure and agency has been perceived by youth researchers. Whilst this literature acknowledges the interplay between structure and agency in transitional processes, the appropriateness of particular research methods for explicating structure and agency needs to be further elucidated. Using data from a study of youth transitions in rural areas of Scotland, a range of transitional experiences from two indepth life history interviews is presented here. This exploratory exercise suggests that life history interviews enable researchers to explore how far social structures provide opportunities and constraints for human agents at the same time as showing how individuals, with their own beliefs and desires, take actions despite the social structures that underlie the immediacy of their experiences.

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  • Gill Hubbard, 2000. "The Usefulness of Indepth Life History Interviews for Exploring the Role of Social Structure and Human Agency in Youth Transitions," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 4(4), pages 102-113, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:4:y:2000:i:4:p:102-113
    DOI: 10.5153/sro.390
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    1. Michaela Rogers & Anya Ahmed, 2017. "Interrogating Trans and Sexual Identities through the Conceptual Lens of Translocational Positionality," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 22(1), pages 81-94, February.

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