Narrative SociologyLeslie J. Irvine, Jennifer L. Pierce, Robert Zussman Narrative Sociology defines classics, identifies exemplars of narrative analysis, and delineates a field in the making.
Part I: Varieties of Narrative - The Sociology of Storytelling - Francesca Polletta, Pang Ching Bobby Chen, Beth Gharrity Gardner, and Alice Motes - The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality - Hayden White - The Collective Story: Postmodernism and the Writing of Sociology - Laurel Richardson - The Use of Personal Narratives in Social Science and History - Mary Jo Maynes, Jennifer L. Pierce, and Barbara Laslett - Explanatory Narrative Research - Donald Polkinghorne - From Causes to Events: Notes on Narrative Positivism - Andrew Abbott - The Trouble with Stories - Charles Tilly - Life as Narrative - Jerome Bruner - Reclaiming an Orphan Genre: The First-Person Narrative of Illness - Arthur W. Frank - Narrative Freedom - Robert Zussman - Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motive - C. Wright Mills Part II: Narrative in Action - The Normalization of Deviance, 1981-1984 - Dianne Vaughan - Harvard: The Quota Controversy and the Quest for Restriction - Jerome Karabel - Prologue to On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City - Alice Goffman - A Little Room for Myself - Teresa Gowan Part III: Narrative and Institutional Contexts - Scientia Sexualis - Michel Foucault - Grand National Narratives and the Project of Truth Commissions: A Comparative Analysis - Molly Andrews - Narrating Social Structure: Stories of Resistance to Legal Authority - Patricia Ewick and Susan Silbey - "It Was Like a Fever . . .": Narrative and Identity in Social Protest - Francesca Polletta - Lifechangers and Lifesavers - Leslie Irvine |