Analyzing social narratives / Shaul R. Shenhav.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shenhav, Shaul R., author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Routledge series on interpretive methods

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Narrative inquiry (Research method).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 103 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2015.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Interpreting human stories, whether those told by individuals, groups, organizations, nations, or even civilizations, opens a wide scope of research options for understanding how people construct, shape, and reshape their perceptions, identities, and beliefs. Such narrative research is a rapidly growing field in the social sciences, as well as in the societally oriented humanities, such as cultural studies. This methodologically framed book offers conceptual directions for the study of social narrative, guiding readers through the means of narrative research and raising important ethical and value-related dilemmas. Shenhav details three classic elements of narrative-text, story, and narration-familiar concepts to those in literary studies. To the classic trilogy of terms, this book also adds multiplicity, a crucial element for applying narrative analysis to the social sciences as it rests on the understanding that social narratives seek reproduction and self-multiplicity in order to become "social" and influential. The aim of this book is to create an easy, clear, and welcoming introduction to narratology as a mode of analysis, especially designed for students of the social sciences to provide the basics of a narratological approach, and to help make research and writing in this tradition more systematic. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: being a story-listener

Story, text, narration and multiplicity in social narratives

Story: stories and characters in social narratives

Text: the texts of social narratives

Narration: the power of narrators

Multiplicity: the proliferation of social narrative

Normative perspectives in the study of social narratives

Analyzing social narratives.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780203109083

0203109082

Publisher Number:

99975737718

Access Restriction:

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