How does context shape biography? How do language and relationships affect the development of people?s work lives? An international group of scholars from diverse disciplines addresses these and other issues in this volume of The Narrative Study of Lives. They explore what it means to take narrative seriously and how an empathic stance in narrative research opens out on the dialogic self. The contributors also consider questions of how participants make meaning out of their experience in the framework of available interpretive horizons. In addition, there are sections that use narrative approaches to develop a deeper understanding of loneliness and the "coming out" process in homosexuality. This volume examines the many ways in which people interpret their experience and explores conceptual avenues to make use of these understandings in the analysis of human life. Those interested in qualitative methods, evaluation, and education research will find Interpreting Experience to be an invaluable contribution.

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Yes, you can access Interpreting Experience by Ruthellen Josselson,Amia Lieblich, Ruthellen H. Josselson, Amia Lieblich in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Social Science Research & Methodology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Publisher

SAGE Publications, Inc

Year

1995

Print ISBN

9780803971073, 9780803971066

eBook ISBN

9781452246970

Edition

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Social Science Research & Methodology

Index

Social Sciences

Cover
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Taking Narrative Seriously: Consequences for Method and Theory in Interview Studies
Chapter 2 - Imagining the Real: Empathy, Narrative, and the Dialogic Self
Chapter 3 - Biographical Work and New Ethnography
Chapter 4 - Life History and Academic Work: The Career of Professor G
Chapter 5 - Developmental Patterns of Mathematically Gifted Individuals as Viewed through Their Narratives
Chapter 6 - The Quest for Connectedness: Loneliness as Process in the Narratives of Lonely University Students
Chapter 7 - It's the Telling That Makes the Difference
Chapter 8 - Life Histories as Social Texts of Personal Experiences in Sociolinguistic Studies: A Look at the Lives of Domestic Workers in Swaziland
Chapter 9 - Extending Boundaries: Narratives on Exchange
Index
About the Contributors

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