Biography, risk and uncertainty—is there common ground for biographical research and risk research?

Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Zinn, Jens O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biography; Methodology; Risk; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920546245     PISSN: 14385627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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