“Oral history is a research method. It is a way of conducting long, highly detailed interviews with people about their life experiences, often in multiple interview sessions. Oral history allows the person being interviewed to use their own language to talk about events in their life and the method is used by researchers in different fields like history, anthropology and sociology.” PeopleWayPersonsLongDifferentUseUsedLanguageEventsFieldsResearchMethodInterviewsLife ExperienceMultipleSociologySessionAnthropologyResearchersConductingOral History Author:Patricia Leavy
“My book, Oral History: Understanding Qualitative Research is about how researchers use this method and how to write up their oral history projects so that audiences can read them. It's important that researchers have many different tools available to study people's lives and the cultures we live in. I think oral history is a most needed and uniquely important strategy.” PeopleThinkingWritingImportantBookDifferentUseCultureUnderstandingAudienceStudyNeededProjectsResearchToolsMethodStrategyAvailableResearchersQualitativeOral History Author:Patricia Leavy
“Moreover, it is so important that people have the opportunity to share their stories and have them documented. There have been large-scale oral history projects after many events, from September 11th to Hurricane Katrina. Many oral history projects are much more confined, but equally valuable. We can learn about different working conditions, living conditions, trauma experiences and much more through oral history.” PeopleHas BeensImportantDifferentStoriesOpportunityShareConditionsEventsProjectsValuableTraumaScalesSeptemberConfinedHurricanesSeptember 11KatrinaLarge ScaleSeptember 11thHurricane KatrinaOral HistoryWorking ConditionsLiving Conditions Author:Patricia Leavy
