Interpreting Experience: The Narrative Study of Lives (The Narrative Study of Lives, 3, Band 3) - Softcover

Josselson, Ruthellen

 
9780803971073: Interpreting Experience: The Narrative Study of Lives (The Narrative Study of Lives, 3, Band 3)
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ISBN 10: 0803971079 ISBN 13: 9780803971073
Verlag: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1995

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The focus of this book is on the role of narrative analysis in the social sciences and in increasing our understanding of human lives and experiences. Contributors address such questions as: Should in-depth interviews become occasions in which to ask for life stories so as to enhance a study of social phenomena? Can a richer approach to psychological understanding be reached by studying how experience, conscious and unconscious, is organized, interpreted and reshaped throughout the life cycle? How can biographical work be used to shed light on the social construction of individual lives?

In addition, the book covers the use of narrative analysis in career biography, in examining turning points in people's lives, in the effe

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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 address these and other issues in the latest 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.

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Verlag
SAGE Publications, Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0803971079
ISBN 13 
9780803971073
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
280
Herausgeber
Lieblich Amia
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