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Sociology meets memoir : an exploration of narrative and method / Margaret K. Nelson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nelson, Margaret K., 1944- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Narrative inquiry (Research method).
- Biography as a literary form.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix,183 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "This innovative book offers a discussion of how memoirs might be useful for sociologists. By reading the guide, students and teachers alike will gain an understanding of how they might approach the current outpouring of memoirs and incorporate them into their teaching, learning, writing and research"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part I: conceptual issues
- The memoir boom and the narrative turn
- Self, story and veracity
- Part II: sociological memoirs
- Becoming and being
- The research
- Part III: sociological uses of memoirs
- Memoir as education
- Memoirs as data
- Part IV: teaching personal writing
- Autoethnography
- Writing to learn by Rebecca Tiger.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 9781479827336 (electronic book)
- 1479827339
- OCLC:
- 1463068619
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