ISBN:
9780415242332
,
0203471008
,
0415242339
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (217 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Lines of Narrative : Psychosocial Perspectives
DDC:
302/.01
Keywords:
Social psychology Methodology
;
Sociology Biographical methods
;
Social psychology ; Methodology
;
Sociology ; Biographical methods
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
A focus on the inter-relationship between experience, self and society brilliantly advances our understanding of the 'narrative turn' in the social sciences. This text will be of vital interest to both sociologists and psychologists
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Foreword by; Introduction; Narrative and culture; Introduction; Narrative, civil society and public culture; Resurrective practice and narrative; Wedding bells and baby carriages: heterosexuals imagine gay families, gay families imagine themselves; Narratives as bad faith; Narrative and life history; Introduction; When the story's over: narrative foreclosure and the possibility of self-renewal; A cautious ethnography of socialism: autobiographical narrative in the Czech Republic
Description / Table of Contents:
'Papa's bomb': the local and the global in women's Manhattan Project personal narrativesBetrayals, trauma and self-redemption? The meanings of 'the closing of the mines' in two ex-miners' narratives; Narrative and discourse; Introduction; Narrative, discourse and the unconscious: the case of Tommy; Fictional(ising) identity? Ontological assumptions and methodological productions of ('anorexic') subjectivities; 'Let them rot': four boys talk about punishment; Narrative and the discursive (re)construction of events; Conclusion; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
