Storytelling sociology : narrative as social inquiry / edited by Ronald J. Berger and Richard Quinney.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berger, Ronald J.

Quinney, Richard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology--Methodology.

Sociology.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

ix, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005.

Contents:

The narrative turn in social inquiry / Ronald J. Berger & Richard Quinney

Searching for Yellowstone / Norman K. Denzin

Twin towers / Nelia Olivencia

Remembering George Washington on the Rio Grande / A. Javier Trevino

My ain folk : Scottish oral history and the sociological imagination / Jean Hector Faley

Everyone else : becoming Jewish / Tony Platt

Walking with Lao Tzu at Auschwitz / DeWitt Clinton

Becoming Quasimodo : the shaping of a life / William E. Powell

No body is exempt : beauty compulsion and resistance in Japan / Laura Miller

Mama's always on stage : the absurdity of the pregnant academic / Darcie Vandegrift

Sexual boundaries : trespasses into chaos / Marga Ryersbach

The razor's edge : narcotics and the embodiment of trauma / Diane Schaefer

Hoop dreams on wheels / Ronald J. Berger

How I started my life in crime / Sheila Balkan

Born illegal / Stephen C. Richards

Telling tales : journey of an itinerant storyteller / Robin A. Mello

Silence of the lambs : the architecture of the abattoir / Carla Corroto

Working class heroes : Rinaldo Cappellini and the anthracite mineworkers / Robert P. Wolensky

A road less traveled / John Horton

It means something : the ghosts of war / William B. Brown

The glowing of such fire / Richard Quinney.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-294) and index.

ISBN:

1588262952

1588262715

OCLC:

54907015