The Uses of Narrative
Title | The Uses of Narrative PDF eBook |
Author | Shelley Sclater |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 202 |
Release | 2017-07-28 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1351301985 |
Social scientists increasingly invoke "narrative" in their theory and research. This book explores the wide range of work in sociology, psychology and cultural studies in which narrative approaches have been used to study meaning, subjectivity, politics, and power in concrete contexts.The Uses of Narrative presents a range of case studies, including: Princess Diana's Panorama interview, media coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, memoirs of the wives of scientists who made the first atomic bomb, popular images of gay marriage, and the effect of the "Velvet Revolution" on writing autobiography.The book brings together contributions from European, Australian, and North American researchers, indicating the diversity and potential of narrative approaches. The editors adopt a distinctive and unique psychosocial approach to narrative, and set the individual chapters in the context of three broad themes: culture, life histories, and discourse. The Uses of Narrative complicates, challenges and stimulates--it will be of vital interest to sociologists, psychologists, social theorists, students of cultural studies, and others who are interested in the relationships between meaning, self and society.
Cultural Contexts of Health
Title | Cultural Contexts of Health PDF eBook |
Author | Centers of Disease Control |
Publisher | Health Evidence Network Synthe |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016-10-24 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 9789289051682 |
Storytelling is an essential tool for reporting and illuminating the cultural contexts of health: the practices and behavior that groups of people share and that are defined by customs, language, and geography. This report reviews the literature on narrative research, offers some quality criteria for appraising it, and gives three detailed case examples: diet and nutrition, well-being, and mental health in refugees and asylum seekers. Storytelling and story interpretation belong to the humanistic disciplines and are not a pure science, although established techniques of social science can be applied to ensure rigor in sampling and data analysis. The case studies illustrate how narrative research can convey the individual experience of illness and well-being, thereby complementing and sometimes challenging epidemiological and public health evidence.
Narrative in Culture
Title | Narrative in Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Cristopher Nash |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 340 |
Release | 2005-09-23 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1134960786 |
Discourse can no longer be contained within the frameworks of literature and linguistics. It has broken through the barriers between subjects and dominates the way we relate to each other and to the world. Even where we least expect it, `storytelling' is going on, and the implications of this are vast. This is the view universally shared by the writers contributing to this book. Specialists in economics, law, the history and semiotics of science, psychology, politics, philosophy, and literary theory and criticism, they are a uniquely cross-disciplinary group.
Counternarratives
Title | Counternarratives PDF eBook |
Author | John Keene |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2016-05-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 081122435X |
Now in paperback, a bewitching collection of stories and novellas that are “suspenseful, thought-provoking, mystical, and haunting” (Publishers Weekly) Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives draws upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, and interrogation transcripts to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present. “An Outtake” chronicles an escaped slave’s take on liberty and the American Revolution; “The Strange History of Our Lady of the Sorrows” presents a bizarre series of events that unfold in Haiti and a nineteenth-century Kentucky convent; “The Aeronauts” soars between bustling Philadelphia, still-rustic Washington, and the theater of the U. S. Civil War; “Rivers” portrays a free Jim meeting up decades later with his former raftmate Huckleberry Finn; and in “Acrobatique,” the subject of a famous Edgar Degas painting talks back.
Narratives in Social Science Research
Title | Narratives in Social Science Research PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges |
Publisher | SAGE |
Total Pages | 172 |
Release | 2004-03-27 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780761941958 |
Provides: an historical overview of the development of the narrative approach; a guide to how narrative methods can be applied in fieldwork; how to incorporate a narrative approach within a field project; guidelines for interpreting collected or produced narratives; and useful guides for further reading.
What is Narrative Therapy?
Title | What is Narrative Therapy? PDF eBook |
Author | Alice Morgan |
Publisher | Gecko 2000 |
Total Pages | 152 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
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This best-selling book is an easy-to-read introduction to the ideas and practices of narrative therapy. It uses accessible language, has a concise structure and includes a wide range of practical examples. What Is Narrative Practice? covers a broad spectrum of narrative practices including externalisation, re-membering, therapeutic letter writing, rituals, leagues, reflecting teams and much more. If you are a therapist, health worker or community worker who is interesting in applying narrative ideas in your own work context, this book was written with you in mind.
Narrative Sociology
Title | Narrative Sociology PDF eBook |
Author | Leslie J. Irvine |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780826522450 |
A definitive reader on the narrative approach and introduction to the field