The study of narratives has gained a new momentum in recent years. This renewed interest in an old topic - concern with narratives and narrativity goes back to Aristotle's Poetics - is related to increasing awareness of the role story-telling plays in shaping social phenomena. In the wake of this new awareness, narratives have become a widespread research method in the social sciences. Discussion about narratives, however, goes far beyond their use as a method of inquiry. Narrative as a discursive form, narratives as history, and narratives as life stories and societal stories have been approached by cultural and literary theorists, linguists, philosophers of history, psychologists and anthropologists.
This chapter addresses the use of narratives in social inquiry by discussing some elements of narrative theory and introducing the narrative interview as a specific technique of data collection, in particular in the format systematized by Schütze (1977; 1983; 1992). In what follows we introduce conceptual issues related to narratives, and present the narrative interview as a method of data elicitation, discussing in detail the procedure, indication for its use and potential problems associated with this technique. We conclude with a discussion of the thorny epistemological problem of what, in fact, narratives tell us.
The study of narratives has gained a new momentum in recent years. This renewed interest in an old topic - concern with narratives and narrativity goes back to Aristotle's Poetics - is related to increasing awareness of the role story-telling plays in shaping social phenomena. In the wake of this new awareness, narratives have become a widespread research method in the social sciences. Discussion about narratives, however, goes far beyond their use as a method of inquiry. Narrative as a discursive form, narratives as history, and narratives as life stories and societal stories have been approached by cultural and literary theorists, linguists, philosophers of history, psychologists and anthropologists.This chapter addresses the use of narratives in social inquiry by discussing some elements of narrative theory and introducing the narrative interview as a specific technique of data collection, in particular in the format systematized by Schütze (1977; 1983; 1992). In what follows we introduce conceptual issues related to narratives, and present the narrative interview as a method of data elicitation, discussing in detail the procedure, indication for its use and potential problems associated with this technique. We conclude with a discussion of the thorny epistemological problem of what, in fact, narratives tell us.
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