1st Edition
The Uses of Narrative Explorations in Sociology, Psychology and Cultural Studies
By Shelley Sclater
Copyright 2000
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
I: Narrative and culture; Introduction; 1: Narrative, civil society and public culture; 2: Resurrective practice and narrative; 3: Wedding bells and baby carriages; 4: Narratives as bad faith; II: Narrative and life history; Introduction; 5: When the story’s over; 6: A cautious ethnography of socialism; 7: ‘Papa’s bomb’; 8: Betrayals, trauma and self-redemption?; III: Narrative and discourse; Introduction; 9: Narrative, discourse and the unconscious; 10: Fictional(isitig) identity?; 11: ‘Let them rot’; 12: Narrative and the discursive (re)construction of events
Biography
Shelley Sclater
