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Coming to Narrative : A Personal History of Paradigm Change in the Human Sciences
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bochner, Arthur P.
- Series:
- Writing Lives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bochner, Arthur P.
- College teachers--United States--Biography.
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Interpersonal Relations.
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology.
- Social sciences--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States--History.
- Social sciences--Study and teaching (Higher)--History--United States--Biography.
- Social sciences.
- College teachers--United States.
- College teachers.
- Local Subjects:
- Bochner, Arthur P.
- College teachers--United States--Biography.
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Interpersonal Relations.
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology.
- Social sciences--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (351 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Walnut Creek : Left Coast Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Reflecting on a 50 year university career, Distinguished Professor Arthur Bochner, former President of the National Communication Association, discloses a lived history, both academic and personal, that has paralleled many of the paradigm shifts in the human sciences inspired by the turn toward narrative. He shows how the human sciences-especially in his own areas of interpersonal, family, and communication theory-have evolved from sciences directed toward prediction and control to interpretive ones focused on the search for meaning through qualitative, narrative, and ethnographic modes o
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface: On the Road to Meaning; Chapter One. Drifting Toward an Academic Life: Narrative Legacies; Chapter Two. Graduate Student Socialization: On Becoming a Divided Self; Chapter Three. Staging a Dissertation: Entry into a Professor's Way of Life; Chapter Four. Raising Consciousness and Teaching Things that Matter; Chapter Five. Double Bind: Selling Out or Risking Ruin; Chapter Six. Paradigms Shift: Dark Side of the Moon; Chapter Seven. Taking Chances; Chapter Eight. Between Obligation and Inspiration; Chapter Nine. Seeking a Home in Academia
- Chapter Ten. Life's Forward MomentumChapter Eleven. A Twist of Fate; Chapter Twelve. Healing a Divided Self: Narrative Means to Academic Ends; Chapter Thirteen. Finishing Touches: A Sense of an Ending; Epilogue. Story-Truth; References; Index; About the Author
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-315-43208-0
- 1-315-43209-9
- 1-61132-775-X
- 9781315432090
- OCLC:
- 954006869
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