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The first two sections of the chapter examines the general features of a narrative story, emphasizing its uses in both the social sciences and everyday social contexts, and discusses the basic epistemological issues involved in the production of a narrative text.
Narratives—the stories people tell—provide a rich source of information about how people make sense of their lives, about how they construct disparate facts and weave them together cognitively to make sense of reality.
8 cze 2023 · Narrative analysis is crucial in the study of public policy, as it allows to highlight several of its key concerns, including (but not limited to) the study of problem definition, agenda setting, political communication, political strategy, the role of ideas, and policy beliefs.
29 paź 2024 · In order to make narrative approaches accessible to research with an interest in international politics, we define narratives in a minimal way as communicative-discursive representations of events with temporal sequence and/or causal relations in the form of a plot, carried by characterization of roles, and drawing on socially relevant topoi ...
12 wrz 2017 · The communication scholar Walter Fisher (1984) and psychologist Jerome Bruner (1991) have argued that narrative is a key means through which people organize and make sense of reality and engage...
12 wrz 2024 · The book discusses the three classical elements of narrative—text, story, and narration—and develops the idea of multiplicity as a fourth element crucial for applying narrative analysis in social sciences.
1 cze 1998 · Narrative analysis is particularly useful in providing insight on the cognitive process and on the role of culture in shaping any human universals. We begin by defining narrative as a concept and as a methodological tool in social science.