methods
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: oral history

history
type: Concept
narrower: oral history

life history research
type: Concept
narrower: oral history

oral history
type: Concept
broader: life history research
broader: history
definition: Oral history—research into the past that records the memories of witnesses to the past in order to draw on direct and personal experience of events and conditions—occupies an area of overlap between history, sociology, cultural studies, and psychology. Arguments in support of oral history turn on the challenge that it presents to official and dominant accounts of the past that are based in documentary sources. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods; Oral History]