Doing Narrative Research

Author: Molly Andrews
Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN: 9781412911979
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
Examining narrative methods in the context of its multi-disciplinary social science origins, this text looks at its theoretical underpinnings, while retaining an emphasis on the process of doing narrative research. The authors provide a comprehensive guide to narrative methods, taking the reader from initial decisions about forms of narrative analysis, through more complex issues of reflexivity, interpretation and the research context. The contributions included here clearly demonstrate the value of narrative methods for contemporary social research and practice. This book will be invaluable for all social science postgraduate students and researchers looking to use narrative methods in their own research.

Narrative Research

Author: Amia Lieblich
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761910435
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 204

Book Description
A concise volume aimed at researchers and academics in sociology, anthropology, psychology and interpersonal communication.

What is Narrative Research?

Author: Corinne Squire
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1849669708
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 169

Book Description
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Narrative research has become a catchword in the social sciences today, promising new fields of inquiry and creative solutions to persistent problems. This book brings together ideas about narrative from a variety of contexts across the social sciences and synthesizes understandings of the field. Rather than focusing on theory, it examines how narrative research is conducted and applied. It operates as a practical introductory guide, basic enough for first-time researchers, but also as a window onto the more complex questions and difficulties that all researchers in this area face. The authors guide readers through current debates about how to obtain and analyse narrative data, about the nature of narrative, the place of the researcher, the limits of researcher interpretations, and the significance of narrative work in applied and in broader political contexts.

Essentials of Narrative Analysis

Author: Ruthellen Josselson
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
ISBN: 9781433835674
Category : Narrative inquiry (Research method)
Languages : en
Pages : 102

Book Description
"The brief, practical texts in the Essentials of Qualitative Methods series introduce social science and psychology researchers to key approaches to capturing phenomena not easily measured quantitatively, offering exciting, nimble opportunities to gather in-depth qualitative data. In this book, Ruthellen Josselson and Phillip L. Hammack introduce readers to Narrative Analysis, a qualitative method that investigates how people make meaning of their lives and experiences in both social and cultural contexts. This method offers researchers a window into how individuals' stories are shaped by the categories they inhabit, such as gender, race, class, and sexual identity, and it preserves the voice of the individual through a close textual analysis of their storytelling. About the Essentials of Qualitative Methods book series: Even for experienced researchers, selecting and correctly applying the right method can be challenging. In this groundbreaking series, leading experts in qualitative methods provide clear, crisp, and comprehensive descriptions of their approach, including its methodological integrity, and its benefits and limitations. Each book includes numerous examples to enable readers to quickly and thoroughly grasp how to leverage these valuable methods"--

Narrative Analysis

Author: Catherine Kohler Riessman
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 1452208646
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 89

Book Description
Students, academics and professionals in qualitative research methods, interpersonal communication, sociolinguistics, sociology and anthropology

Feminist Narrative Research

Author: Jo Woodiwiss
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 113748568X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233

Book Description
This book explores the rich, diverse opportunities and challenges afforded by research that analyses the stories told by, for and about women. Bringing together feminist scholarship and narrative approaches, it draws on empirical material, social theory and methodological insights to provide examples of feminist narrative studies that make explicit the links between theory and practice. Examining the story as told and using examples of narratives told about childhood sexual abuse, domestic/relationship abuse, motherhood, and seeking asylum, it raises wider issues regarding the role of storytelling for understanding and making sense of women’s lives. This thought-provoking work will appeal to students and scholars of women’s studies, feminist and narrative researchers, social policy and practice, sociology, and research methods.

Five Ways of Doing Qualitative Analysis

Author: Kathy Charmaz
Publisher: Guilford Press
ISBN: 1609181425
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450

Book Description
This unique text provides a broad introduction to qualitative analysis together with concrete demonstrations and comparisons of five major approaches. Leading scholars apply their respective analytic lenses to a narrative account and interview featuring "Teresa," a young opera singer who experienced a career-changing illness. The resulting analyses vividly exemplify what each approach looks like in action. The researchers then probe the similarities and differences among their approaches; their distinctive purposes and strengths; the role, style, and subjectivity of the individual researcher; and the scientific and ethical complexities of conducting qualitative research. Also included are the research participant's responses to each analysis of her experience. A narrative account from another research participant, "Gail," can be used by readers to practice the kinds of analysis explored in the book.

Narrative as Topic and Method in Social Research

Author: Donileen R. Loseke
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 1071851683
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
Narrative research is an increasingly popular qualitative method across the social sciences. This book has two purposes: firstly to show students and researchers how to do research on narrative topics, particularly on questions about narrative productions of meaning, and secondly to explain some fundamentals of research methods suitable for exploring these topics. A final part of the book provides empirical examples of how such research is done. These chapters use small amounts of data to examine the analytic tasks of designing research questions, finding appropriate data, sampling decisions, contextualization, data categorization, and communicating study findings.

Understanding Narrative Inquiry

Author: Jeong-Hee Kim
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 1483324699
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 551

Book Description
Understanding Narrative Inquiry: The Crafting and Analysis of Stories as Research is a comprehensive, thought-provoking introduction to narrative inquiry in the social and human sciences that guides readers through the entire narrative inquiry process—from locating narrative inquiry in the interdisciplinary context, through the philosophical and theoretical underpinnings, to narrative research design, data collection (excavating stories), data analysis and interpretation, and theorizing narrative meaning. Six extracts from exemplary studies, together with questions for discussion, are provided to show how to put theory into practice. Rich in stories from author Jeong-Hee Kim’s own research endeavors and incorporating chapter-opening vignettes that illustrate a graduate student's research dilemma, the book not only accompanies readers through the complex process of narrative inquiry with ample examples, but also helps raise their consciousness about what it means to be a qualitative researcher and a narrative inquirer in particular.

Narratives in Social Science Research

Author: Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761941958
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 172

Book Description
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.