What is Narrative Research?

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Synopsis

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.

Book details

Series:
The 'What is?' Research Methods Series
Author:
Corinne Squire, Molly Andrews, Mark Davis, Cigdem Esin, Barbara Harrison, Lars-Christer Hyden, Margareta Hyden
ISBN:
9781849669702
Related ISBNs:
9781780938530
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2020-02-27
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2015
Copyright by:
Corinne Squire, Molly Andrews, Mark Davis, Cigdem Esin, Barbara Harrison, Lars-Christer Hyden, Margareta Hyden 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Nonfiction, Social Studies, Sociology