Биографичният анализ на етническата идентичност между опита, спомена и разказа
Biographical Analysis of Ethnic Identity: Between Experience, Memory, and Narrative

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the basic theoretical-cognitive assumptions and the sociological potential of the analysis of biographical data as applied in the researches of the German sociologists Fritz Schьtze and Gabriele Rosenthal. The processual orders of biographical narrative are presented, more specifically, the institutional model of the flow of life and expectations from life; the schema of action having biographical relevance; trajectories of suffering; and the mechanisms whereby a biographical whole is built up. The author argues that, underlying the autobiographical interviews, is a linking of “the interpretation models of the social actors” and their “reconstructed life story.” In assuming that the re-actualization of the past in autobiographical narrative is connected to re-structuring (partial, situational and overall) of the individual’s self-definition and self-positioning in the world, as well as with the change of his/her identity, the author attempts to reconstruct the dynamics of ethnic self-definition of two Bulgarian Turks, and does this within the tense biographical field lying between the “experienced before”, the “remembered now”, and the narrated.

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