This article discusses biographical research, its epistemological assumptions, methodological practices and alternatives of analysis. The text begins with a discussion of what specifically constitutes the epistemological project of biographical research, comparing its theoretical perspective to the sociological approach. In this sense, it takes the concept of the individual as a singular, biographical being who has his or her own experience. Next, it develops the methodological aspects of biographical research, considering the biographical material itself, the typical forms of collection with biographical interviews, their conduction and their implications for fieldwork. It ends with a discussion on the analysis of biographical interviews through the following categories: "forms of discourse", "framework for action", "recurring motifs" and "biographical management", present in the material collected.
biographical research; epistemological project; biographical interview