The term life history has been given many meanings in several scientific fields. It can refer to a variety of methods and techniques that are used for conducting qualitative interviews, especially in the fields of sociology and anthropology. Qualitative research is a field of inquiry that crosscuts disciplines and subject matters. An interview is a conversation between two or more people (the interviewer and the interviewee where Questions are asked by the interviewer to obtain information from Sociology (from Latin: socius "companion" and the suffix -ology "the study of" from Greek λόγος lógos "knowledge" Anthropology (/ˌænθɹəˈpɒlədʒi/ from Greek grc ἄνθρωπος anthrōpos, "human" -λογία -logia) is the study of

Contents 1 Biology 2 Medicine 3 Psychology 4 Ethnography 4.1 Background 4.2 Technique 5 Bibliography 6 References

Biology

In biology the life history of an organism is sometimes used to refer to the reproductive cycle of animals and plants. Foundations of modern biology There are five unifying principles Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. ^[1] However, many biologists strongly prefer the tem "life cycle" for such events and reserve the term life history strictly for the study of "life history evolution," the coevolution of the traits of age-specific survivorship probability, age at first reproduction, clutch/litter size, and reproductive frequency.

Some use the term "alternation of generations" when referring to algae, however as there are in many cases, especially the Rhodophyta, three stages the term "alternation" is not appropriate. The Alternation of phases (or generations) describes the life cycle of Plants Fungi and Protists A multicellular Diploid phase alternates Algae ( sing. alga are a large and diverse group of simple typically Autotrophic organisms ranging from Unicellular to Multicellular forms The red algae (Rhodophyta ˌroʊdəˈfaɪtə roʊˈdɒfɨtə from Greek: ῥόδον (rhodon = rose + φυτόν (phyton = plant thus red plant are

Medicine

In medicine, a life history may refer to a general health assessment or standard medical history. Medicine is the art and science of healing It encompasses a range of Health care practices evolved to maintain and restore Human Health by the In seeking to identify certain health patterns, the interviewer may conduct a thorough interview. Health is a state of complete physical mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity This form of interview can be utilized to find various kinds of sources for effects on the body and general health. The human body is the entire physical and mental structure of a Human Organism.

Psychology

Main article: Life history theory

Life history theory is an analytic method of sociobiology for understanding reproductive behaviors in animals and people. Life history theory is an analytical framework widely used in animal and human Biology, Psychology, and Evolutionary Anthropology which postulates Life history theory is an analytical framework widely used in animal and human Biology, Psychology, and Evolutionary Anthropology which postulates Sociobiology is a neo-Darwinian and Socialism Synthesis of Scientific disciplines that attempts to explain Social behavior

Ethnography

In sociological and anthropological research, a life history refers to the overall picture of the informant's or interviewee's life. The purpose of the interview is to be able to describe what it is like to be this particular person, that is, the one being interviewed.

Background

The method was first used when interviewing indigenous peoples of the Americas. For indigenous peoples in the United States other than Hawaii and Alaska see also Native Americans in the United States. The subjects were native American leaders. One interviewed them, and the subjects were asked to describe their lives as such, what it was like to be that particular person. The term person is used in Common sense to mean an individual Human being. The purpose of the interview was to capture a living picture of a disappearing (as such) people/way of life. The term lifestyle was originally coined by Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler in 1929

Later the method was used to interview criminals and prostitutes in Chicago. In the sociological field, crime is the breach of a rule or Law for which some governing authority or force may ultimately prescribe a Punishment Prostitution is the act of performing Sexual activity in exchange for Money. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. The subjects were asked to tell about their lives. The interviewers also looked at social- and police-records, and the society in general in which the subject lived. Social work is a discipline involving the application of Social theory and research methods to study and improve the lives of people groups and societies Police are agents or agencies usually of the executive, empowered to enforce the law and to effect public and social order through the legitimatized use of force A society is a Population of Humans characterized by patterns of relationships between individuals that share a distinctive Culture and Institutions The result was a report in which one could read about (i) Chicago at that particular time; (ii) how the subject viewed his own life (i. e. `how it was like to be this particular person') and (iii) how society looked upon the subject what the consequence of this was for that particular person -- i. e. `social work'/-help, incarceration etc. Incarceration is the detention of a person in Jail or Prison.

Technique

In both cases, the one doing the interview should be careful not to ask "yes or no"-questions, but to get the subject to tell "the story of his or her life", in his or her own words. It is common practice to begin the interview with the subject's early childhood and to proceed chronologically to the present. Definition A chronology may be either relative &mdashthat is locating related events relative to each other&mdashor ''absolute'' &mdashlocating

Bibliography

• Molles, Manuel C. , Jr. (1999). Ecology: Concepts and Applications, International Edition, Dubuque: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. , 510pp. DOI:QH541.M65. A digital object identifier ( DOI) is a permanent identifier given to an Electronic document. ISBN 0-07-042716-X.  

• Smith, Robert Leo; Thomas M. Smith (2002). Elements of Ecology, Fourth Edition, Singapore: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc. , 567pp. ISBN 981-4119-31-8.  

References

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