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Interpreting Experience
The Narrative Study of Lives
Edited by:
- Ruthellen Josselson - Towson State University, USA
- Amia Lieblich - Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Volume:
3
Other Titles in:
Qualitative Research (General)
Qualitative Research (General)
May 1995 | 280 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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 effects of language on women at work, and in discovering common themes between people in similar careers and with shared experiences.
Ruthellen Josselson and Amia Lieblich
Introduction
Susan E Chase
Taking Narrative Seriously
Ruthellen Josselson
Imagining the Real
Jaber F Gubrium and James A Holstein
Biographical Work and New Ethnography
Steven Weiland
Life History and Academic Work
Ada Zohar
Developmental Patterns of Mathematically Gifted Individuals as Viewed through Their Narratives
Hadas Wiseman
The Quest for Connectedness
Adital Tirosh-Ben-Ari
It's the Telling that Makes the Difference
Sarah Mkhonza
Life Histories as Social Texts of Personal Experience in Sociolinguistic Studies
Ardra L Cole and J Gary Knowles
Extending Boundaries