From fieldwork to the theory and back again The biographical (re)construction of an unconventional family by way of multi-variant data

My paper is research-oriented. In other words, I will concentrate on an object of research and introduce you to a certain methodological process. This object of research is an unconventional family. The unconventional factor in the following case embodies the special variant of a homosexual family. The method I have applied to study this particular form of family is known as “family research based on case reconstruction”. This means that interpretations and generalizations are not based on the frequency at which certain social phenomena occur but working on the individual case, theses or grounded theories are generated by way of case comparison. As to the structure of this paper, let me explain as follows: