Biografické aktérství a konstrukce Já v životopisných vyprávěních

Abstract

The study of life course currently represents one of the prominent sociological topics. This paper focuses on the concept of biography as a narrated life-story as a specific perspective for the study of the life course. Biographical narratives are conceptualized as a way how people construct the meanings of their lives and identity through the reconstruction of their past. Through the narrative of one owns life the idea of self emerges. The first part of the paper discuss the concept of narrative biography as a way how to conceptualized the self in postmodern society (FISCHER-ROSENTHAL 1997) and how to study the individual life course. The next part of the paper focuses on the analysis of twenty biographical interviews. The key mechanism of the construction of narratives and their role in the process of the constitution the meaningful and coherent self are identified. The final part of the paper focuses on the role of agency in the process of construction of the meanings of one owns life and identity.