Pain and boredom are the two greatest enemies of human happiness. In this regard, it should be noted that the more we manage to avoid one of them, the closer we get to the other, and vice versa; so our life basically represents a more or less rapid oscillation movement between the two. " Arthur Schopenhauer
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Social history is established in the nineteenth century, as an essential axis to understand the different socio-cultural phenomena of a neighborhood, a country, and a nation. Until then, oral history is established as a set of research techniques and methods, which come from different disciplines, which allows us to identify historical events over time. In this sense, oral history and its practitioners experience a disciplinary confluence from specific styles and professional backgrounds. All of this is seen as a combination of academic trades and practices, disciplinary traditions, and autonomous endeavors. That is, oral history is an unfinished and constantly under construction method, where its activity program is a function not only of the disciplines that constitute it, but mainly of the problems it investigates and the subjects with whom it interacts. , and finally from the sources it produces. In addition, it is an approach that emphasizes the look, the listening, the qualitative register, etc..
From that perspective, life history is a term that refers more to the field of action of anthropology, psychology, and sociology. As a research technique it has been relevant in these fields almost from its origins. Then, the biographical approach would be a more recent coinage term that corresponds to the field of qualitative sociology, which has developed in the last 25 and 30 years.
Thus, the use and analysis of oral testimonies are essential for these research methods. It would therefore be said that thematic oral history refers to projects that have as their central purpose the knowledge of a problem or research topic, which is constituted as an object of knowledge. Likewise, autobiography would be the term used to refer to the type of document that occurs in the interaction between the researcher and the narrator / informant. It should be noted that life stories are narrative units that organize the content of a personal narrative, an autobiography or an interview.
In this sense, it is important to take into account the concepts presented below:
It is a term that is mostly associated with the field of history, and specifically with social history and its derivations, such as local and popular history. At present, oral history is a sub-discipline associated with historiographic practice that focuses on immediate or contemporary events and phenomena.
It is a term that refers more to the field of action of anthropology and psychology, but also to that of sociology. As a research technique it has been relevant in these fields, almost from its origins. The biographical approach would be a more recent coinage term that corresponds to the field of qualitative sociology, developed in the last 25-30 years.
It would be the term used to refer to the type of document that occurs in the interaction between the researcher and the narrator / informant. Thus, every life story has an autobiography as its center of analysis, although it is not reduced to that, as will be seen later..
They are the narrative units that organize the content of a personal narrative, an autobiography, or an interview
Let us conclude then, that thematic oral history is constituted more by a wide and heterogeneous set of life stories. While the life story of a person is the set of his life stories, which make up his own autobiography. That is, life history are permanent events that are permeated from childhood that constitute the actions of men.
Galindo, J. (1998). Research techniques in society, culture and communication. Gedisa
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