How does context shape biography? How do language and relationships affect the development of people′s work lives? An international group of scholars from diverse disciplines addresses these and other issues in this volume of The Narrative Study of Lives. They explore what it means to take narrative seriously and how an empathic stance in narrative research opens out on the dialogic self. The contributors also consider questions of how participants make meaning out of their experience in the framework of available interpretive horizons. In addition, there are sections that use narrative approaches to develop a deeper understanding of loneliness and the "coming out" process in homosexuality. This volume examines the many ways in which people interpret their experience and explores conceptual avenues to make use of these understandings in the analysis of human life. Those interested in qualitative methods, evaluation, and education research will find Interpreting Experience to be an invaluable contribution.
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Introduction - Ruthellen Josselson and Amia Lieblich Taking Narrative Seriously - Susan E Chase Consequences for Methods and Theory in Interview Studies Imagining the Real - Ruthellen Josselson Empathy, Narrative and the Architectonics of the Self Biographical Work and New Ethnography - Jaber F Gubrium and James A Holstein Life History and Academic Work - Steven Weiland The Career of Professor G Developmental Patterns of Mathematically Gifted Individuals as Viewed through Their Narratives - Ada Zohar The Quest for Connectedness - Hadas Wiseman Loneliness as Process in Narratives of Lonely University Students It′s the Telling that Makes the Difference - Adital Tirosh-Ben-Ari Life Histories as Social Texts of Personal Experience in Sociolinguistic Studies - Sarah Mkhonza A Look at the Lives of Domestic Workers in Swaziland Extending Boundaries - Ardra L Cole and J Gary Knowles Narrative on Exchange
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ISBN
9780803971066
Publisert
1995-05-03
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Vendor
SAGE Publications Inc
Vekt
550 gr
Høyde
215 mm
Bredde
139 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Antall sider
280