Storytelling Sociology : Narrative as Social Inquiry / ed. by Richard Quinney, Ronald J. Berger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Balkan, Sheila, Contributor.

Berger, Ronald J., Contributor.

Berger, Ronald J., Editor.

Brown, William B., Contributor.

Clinton, D. (DeWitt), Contributor.

Corroto, Carla, Contributor.

Denzin, Norman K., Contributor.

Hector Faley, Jean V. L., Contributor.

Horton, John, Contributor.

Mello, Robin A., Contributor.

Miller, Laura, Contributor.

Olivencia, Nelia, Contributor.

Platt, Tony, Contributor.

Powell, William E., Contributor.

Quinney, Richard, Editor.

Quinney, Richard, Contributor.

Richards, Stephen C., Contributor.

Ryersbach, Marga, Contributor.

Schaefer, Diane, Contributor.

Treviño, A. Javier, Contributor.

Vandegrift, Darcie, Contributor.

Wolensky, Robert P., Contributor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A compelling exposition of the narrative turn in sociology—an approach that views lived experience as constructed, at least in part, by the stories that people tell about it.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1. The Narrative Turn in Social Inquiry

Part 1. Family and Place

Introduction

2. Searching for Yellowstone

3. Twin Towers

4. Remembering George Washington on the Rio Grande

5. My Ain Folk: Scottish Oral History and the Sociological Imagination

6. Everyone Else: Becoming Jewish

7. Walking with Lao Tzu at Auschwitz

Part 2. The Body

8. Becoming Quasimodo: The Shaping of a Life

9. No Body Is Exempt: Beauty Compulsion and Resistance in Japan

10. Mama’s Always on Stage: The Absurdity of the Pregnant Academic

11. Sexual Boundaries: Trespasses into Chaos

12. The Razor’s Edge: Narcotics and the Embodiment of Trauma

13. Hoop Dreams on Wheels

Part 3. Education and Work

14. How I Started My Life in Crime

15. Born Illegal

16. Telling Tales: Journey of an Itinerant Storyteller

17. Silence of the Lambs: The Architecture of the Abattoir

18. Working-Class Heroes: Rinaldo Cappellini and the Anthracite Mineworkers

19. A Road Less Traveled

20. It Means Something: The Ghosts of War

Part 4. The Passing of Time

21. The Glowing of Such Fire

References

The Contributors

Index

About the Book

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)

ISBN:

1-68585-415-X

OCLC:

1334344462