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Investigating Subjectivity
Research on Lived Experience
Edited by:
- Carolyn Ellis - University of South Florida, USA
- Michael Flaherty - Eckerd College, USA
April 1992 | 272 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Much has been missed by social researchers in their attempt to understand the human experience as a series of rational, cognitive choices. Human subjectivity in lived experience, both that of the subject and that of the researcher, is the topic of this volume, an important corrective to the detached stance of most previous social research.
The contributors examine various aspects of the subject - the emotions, the gendered nature of experience, the body-mind relationship, perceptions of time, place and setting, understanding of the self - and explore how these elements provide a fuller understanding of the human condition.
Carolyn Ellis and Michael G Flaherty
An Agenda for the Interpretation of Lived Experience
PART ONE: INTERPRETING TEXTS
Norman K Denzin
The Many Faces of Emotionality
Persona
Laurel Graham
Archival Research in Intertextual Analysis
Bronwyn Davies
Women's Subjectivity and Feminist Stories
PART TWO: CREATING TEXTS
Carolyn Ellis and Arthur Bochner
Telling and Performing Personal Stories
Carol Rambo Ronai
The Reflexive Self through Narrative
Laurel Richardson
The Consequences of Poetic Representation
PART THREE: EXPERIENCING SUBJECTIVITY
Michael G Flaherty
The Erotics of Hermeneutics of Temporality
Gary Alan Fine
Wild Life
Mark Neuman
The Trail Through Experience
RT FOUR
Virginia Olesen
Extraordinary Events and Mundane Ailments
John Gagnon
The Self, Its Voices, and Their Discord