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Social Sciences have been interested in biographical studies since the 1920s. However, this way of observing and analyzing social phenomena was displaced, between the World War II and the 1980s, from the methodological scene. According to Daniel Bertaux, the oblivion in which the biographical method fell in that period is attributable to a double imperialism: the one of the structural-functionalism and the one of survey research. During the 1980s there was a new appearance of the biographical method within the social sciences that progressively derived in the consolidation of an academic field in which take part multiple disciplines (history, sociology, anthropology, literary studies, among others). The biographical studies field is characterized for the existence and, in the last years, proliferation of empirical research that relate theoretical elements that belong to different fields of knowledge. In this article, I present some reflections on the use of the biographical method within the social sciences. First of all, I make a brief historical review of the method origins, its disappearance from the methodological scene, its resurgence and, finally, its actual relevance. Then, I mention the main biographical research styles, according to the typology made by Ernesto Meccia (2019a). In third place, I highlight the differences between two terms that, within the biographical method field, are used frequently as synonyms: life history and life story. After that, I reflect on the truth status of the testimonies. In general terms, I conceive testimonies as tools for identity (re) construction and not only as factual accounts limited to an informative function. Then, I specify the way in which life stories assume a certain plot, an arrangement that is given by the biographical events or turning points. Finally, I show how life stories can express different social issues and problems that go beyond the biography itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this article, we present a chronological framework of the approaches for the treatment of drug consumption in argentina. We also analyze the links between these responses and the changes in the social perception of drug users and the legal regulations that collaborate in those constructions. to delimit the stages, we consider the approaches that were developed both from the civil society and the state as the main factor. We identified four stages. the first one (1966-1982) is marked by the emergency of a series of state and civil society institutions, forerunners in providing specific treatment for drug consumption. the second stage (1983-1988) begins with the democratic restoration in argentina and the consequent extension of civil liberties. in this context, governmental and non-governmental initiatives emerged that adopted the methodology of therapeutic community and an abstentionist perspective. the third stage (1989-2007) corresponds to the massification of drug use and the consequent proliferation of treatment centers. Finally, during the fourth stage (from 2008 to the present) some initiatives oriented towards the improvement of the social inclusion of drug users have emerged. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper we present theoretical and methodological reflections from two research projects. The main objective of both is to analyze the individuation processes in young people whose sociability spaces are in marginalized neighborhoods of the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires. The empirical data was constructed using the life story as methodological tool. The life stories were constructed from five or six individual semi structured interviews of about an hour and a half to 10 young people, 18 to 26 years old. The articulation between the analytical proposals of the sociology of individuation of Danilo Martuccelli and the methodological strategy of the life stories proves to be productive to capture simultaneously the heterogeneities and regularities found in the trials, supports and reflexivities that take part in the construction processes of young subjectivities in the current context of our society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]