摘要:To render a history of Fritz Schütze's cooperation with a group of sociologists working in the In-stitute of Sociology of the University of Lodz, one must start with the first contacts established with him by Marek Czy.ewski, a member of that group, who was invited to an international conference on new approaches to interpretive sociology, orga-nized by Fritz Schütze in Kassel in 1981. As a result of those contacts Fritz Schütze visited the Institute of Sociology in 1986 to give a series of lectures on his own approach to the biographical method in sociology. Those lectures, as I remember them, were focused, on the one hand, on ways of doing sociology based on a conceptual scheme of biographical processes as a theoretical perspective, and, on the other, they were combined with workshop-like demonstration of how that perspective can be applied to, and explored in, empirical research in a methodical way.