This exciting new book is about the narrative turn in sociology, an approach that views lived experience as constructed, at least in part, by the stories that p
Stories are everywhere around us, from the ads on TV or music video clips to the more sophisticated stories told by books or movies. Everything comes wrapped in
Updated second edition: “A bold and imaginative book which moves our thinking about narratives of illness in new directions.” —Sociology of Heath and Illn
Provides: an historical overview of the development of the narrative approach; a guide to how narrative methods can be applied in fieldwork; how to incorporate
Despite the amount of storytelling in social movements, little attention has been paid to narrative as a form of movement discourse or as a mode of social inter