Analyzing Biographical Data – Different Approaches of Doing Biographical Research

processes presented in the frames of autobiographical narrative. The transcript has also an instructive character due to dividing it into paragraphs that are most of the time narrative segments. It helps to do structural description and present the sequential links of segments, for example, to students during workshops or seminars. Following Riemann's idea, two years ago, I proposed a similar data session, this time, devoted to the analysis of an interview conducted with a woman called Natalia, who spent some of her adolescence time in a children's residential care home. The material was discussed in the session entitled Biography and Emotion -different approaches in dealing with the life story of Natalia during the conference "Emotion, Ethics & Performative Praxis" organized in Lodz in 2012. 3 This special issue of Qualitative Sociology Review contains the results of this session. In my introductory remarks, I would like to stress the role that working sessions, workshops, seminars -when common work on material evolves -play due to their methodological, epistemological, and also formative (mainly for a researcher involved in a given project) power released by joint process of interpretation. This frame of reference introducing the first part of this volume also corresponds with the volume's second part devoted to the 70 th jubilee of Professor Fritz Schtze -the founder of autobiographical narrative interview and one of the scholars promoting collective style of work on (auto)biographical data.