Using narrative in social research : qualitative and quantitative approaches / Jane Elliott.
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TextPublisher: London ; Thousand Oaks : SAGE, 2005Description: x, 220 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 1412900409 (hbk.); 9781412900409 (hbk.); 1412900417 (pbk.); 9781412900416 (pbk.)Subject(s): Social sciences -- Research | Narration (Rhetoric) | Discourse analysis, NarrativeDDC classification: 300.72 LOC classification: H62 | .E495 2005Online resources: Publisher description | Table of contents only | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-216) and index.
This text presents an accessible introduction to narrative methods in social research. It is also an important text about the nature, role and theoretical basis of research methodology in general.
1. Narrative and new developments in the social sciences -- 2. Listening to people's stories : the use of narrative in qualitative interviews -- 3. Interpreting people's stories : narrative approaches to the analysis of qualitative data -- 4. Collecting quantitative narratives - a contradiction in terms? -- 5. Statistical stories? : the use of narrative in quantitative analysis -- 6. Uncovering and understanding causal effects and processes -- 7. Narrative and identity : constructions of the subject in qualitative and quantitative research -- 8. The ethical and political implications of using narrative in research -- 9. The researcher as narrator : reflexivity in qualitative and quantitative research -- 10. Telling better stories? : combining qualitative and quantitative research -- App. Details of some major longitudinal quantitative datasets.
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