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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (307 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781685854157
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 21. The Glowing of Such Fire -- References -- The Contributors -- Index -- About the Book
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.
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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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 21. The Glowing of Such Fire -- References -- The Contributors -- Index -- About the Book

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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