Narratives in interview — The case of accounts

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna De Fina
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Alternative Framework ◽  
Reciprocal Influence ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Interactional Context ◽  
Central Tool

Narratives told in interview have become a central tool of data collection and analysis in a variety of disciplines within the social sciences. However, many researchers, particularly those who embrace a conversational analytic or ethnomethodological approach (see among others Schegloff, 1997; Goodwin, 1997), regard them as artificial and oppose them to naturally occurring stories, which they see as much richer and interesting sources of data and analysis. In this paper, I argue that the criticism against interview narratives has been justified by the lack of attention that many narrative analysts have shown towards the interview as a truly interactional context. However, I also point to some shortcomings that derive from this opposition between naturally occurring and interview narratives and to an alternative framework in which the stress is not on the kind of narrative data used for the analysis, but rather on the kind of narrative analysis that should be adopted. I argue that our methodologies of analysis cannot fail to take into account the way narratives shape and are shaped by the different contexts in which they are embedded and propose the study of narrative genres as a way of looking at the reciprocal influence of narratives and story-telling contexts. I illustrate this point looking at accounts as a genre.

Ethics in Social Research

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Informed Consent ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Research Ethics ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Medical Interventions ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Social Researcher ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
The Social ◽  
Collection Phase

It is right that social researchers consider the ethical implications of their work, but discussion of research ethics has been distorted by the primacy of the ‘informed consent’ model for policing medical interventions. It is remarkably rare for the data collection phase of social research to be in any sense harmful, and in most cases seeking consent from, say, members of a church congregation would disrupt the naturally occurring phenomena we wish to study. More relevant is the way we report our research. It is in the disparity between how people would like to see themselves described and explained and how the social researcher describes and explains them that we find the greatest potential for ill-feeling, and even here it is slight.

Practicing Narrative Inquiry II

2020 ◽  
pp. 283-328
Author(s):  
Arthur P. Bochner ◽  
Andrew F. Herrmann
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Moral Agency ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Pragmatic Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
Crisis Of Representation ◽  
Small Story ◽  
The Life Course

Narrative inquiry provides an opportunity to humanize the human sciences, placing people, meaning, and personal identity at the center of research, inviting the development of reflexive, relational, dialogic, and interpretive methodologies, and drawing attention to the need to focus not only on the actual but also on the possible and the good. In this chapter, we focus on the intellectual, existential, empirical, and pragmatic development of the turn toward narrative. We trace the rise of narrative inquiry as it evolved in the aftermath of the crisis of representation in the social sciences. The chapter synthesizes the changing methodological orientations of qualitative researchers associated with narrative inquiry as well as their ethical commitments. In the second half of the chapter, our focus shifts to the divergent standpoints of small-story and big-story researchers; the differences between narrative analysis and narratives under analysis; and narrative practices that seek to help people form better relationships, overcome oppressive canonical identities, amplify or reclaim moral agency, and cope better with contingencies and difficulties experienced over the life course. We anticipate that narrative inquiry will continue to situate itself within an intermediate zone between art and science, healing and research, self and others, subjectivity and objectivity, and theories and stories.

Narrative Research in Education

Education ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Jean Clandinin ◽  
Vera Caine ◽  
Margot Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Narrative Research ◽  
Written Text ◽  
The Social ◽  
Narrative Methodology ◽  
Research In Education

While the study of narratology has a long history, narrative research became a methodology for the study of phenomena in the social sciences in the 1980s. Since that time there has been what some have called a narrative revolution, which is reflected in the rapid uptake in the use of narrative methodology across disciplines. There are diverse definitions of narrative research with different ontological and epistemological commitments, which range from semiotic studies and discourse analysis of spoken and written text to analysis of textual structures of speech and performances of texts as in narrative analysis to the relational studies of narrative inquiry where a focus on lived and told experience is central.

scholarly journals Analisis faktor – faktor yanng mempengaruhi minat kunjungan ulang wisatawan ke Kebun Binatang Taman Rimba Provinsi Jambi

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-28
Author(s):  
Mesi Fitriani ◽  
Syaparuddin Syaparuddin ◽  
Jaya Kusuma Edy
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Tourist Attraction ◽  
The Social ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Return Visits ◽  
Positive Effect

The purpose of this study was conducted to determine (1) the development of tourists to the Taman Rimba zoo in Jambi Province (2) to analyze the factors that influence tourist attraction, facilities, accessibility, and service quality on the interest in visiting tourists' return visits. Methods of data collection through observation and distribution of questionnaires to respondents. The data source used is primary data obtained directly from the distribution of questionnaires as many as 157 with 5 question items each. The software used in this research examiner is Statistical Package for The Social Sciences (SPSS). The results of the analysis of this study indicate that simultaneously or together the attractiveness and facilities have a significant or positive effect on the interest in visiting tourists' return visits. Meanwhile, accessibility and service quality has a negative effect on the interest in returning tourists. Partially the average attractiveness, facilities, accessibility, and service quality have a positive or significant effect on the interest in revisiting tourists. Keywords: Tourist attraction, Facilities, Accessibility, Service quality, Interest of return tourists.

scholarly journals Methods for the Study of Management Ideas

2019 ◽  
pp. 85-103
Author(s):  
David Strang ◽  
Christian Wittrock
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Event History ◽  
Archival Data ◽  
Rich Variety ◽  
Large N ◽  
The Social ◽  
Communicative Processes

This chapter surveys methodologies employed in the study of management ideas. It emphasizes the field’s rich variety of data collection, measurement, and inferential strategies. To map this landscape, the authors group studies by the number of cases they examine, from large N event history analyses based on archival data to ethnographies of a single organization. They give particular attention to bibliometrics and discourse analysis because these methods grapple with the interpretive and communicative processes that are central to management ideas and because techniques for capturing and analysing text are currently being revolutionized across the social sciences.

scholarly journals Metode Mimicry-Memorization (Mim-Mem Method) dalam Meningkatkan Penguasaan Mufrodat Peserta Didik di Madrasah

PALAPA ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-110
Author(s):  
Syarifah Aini ◽  
Mualim Wijaya
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Test Method ◽  
Speaking Test ◽  
The Social ◽  
Method Student ◽  
Non Parametric

This research presented “influence method of mimicrymemorization(Mim-Mem Method) toward Mastery of vacabulary in Madrasah Aliyah Darul Lughah Wal Karomah”. The purpose of this method is to make easily undesrtanding and Master of Vocabulary to student into arabic language lesson. The first step is the teacher pronounce the words then repeated by students. This research was experimental. Whereas the data collection used speaking test method with comparative analyst technique (Non-Parametric) Mann-Whitney U-test (Uji U). To prove this research is significant or not, researchers use SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences). As for the result Mimicry-Memorization method (Mim-Mem Method) has affected to Vocabulary mastery in Madrasah Aliyah darul Lughah Wal Karomah. By using that method, student will be more active and more effective in learning arabic language lesson.

scholarly journals Performance indicators and standards for Polish research libraries

2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (87) ◽  
pp. 17-28
Author(s):  
Lidia Derfer-Wolf ◽  
Ewa Dobrzynska-Lankosz ◽  
Wanda Dziadkiewicz ◽  
Miroslaw Gorny ◽  
Elzbieta Gorska ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Library Evaluation

The article discusses proposed standards for Polish research libraries evaluation. At the beginning, the authors present the situation of research libraries in Poland. They write about the effects of the social-political transformation in the 90s, present selected statistical data, and describe the progress in computerisation. The following part of the article relates to the currently applied in Poland standards of library evaluation. Discussed are e.g. the presently applied tools for data collection and analysis. The last part includes proposed methods for the preparation of standards and assessments for Polish research libraries.

Sound Ethnography

Anthropology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly Powell ◽  
Walter Gershon
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Mixed Media ◽  
Medical Studies ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
Media Arts ◽  
Art Installation ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Performance

Often referred to as sonic ethnography, sound ethnography is the methodological, theoretical, epistemological, and ontological study of the sonic and its relationship to society, culture, and ecology. Sounds have, in fact, always been part of ethnographies, as sensations, understandings, artistic nonartistic expressions, recordings, and film/video and multimedia as technologies developed alongside ethnography and other methodologies. However, despite many ethnographic forms that attend to constructions of sound, such as ethnomusicology, sonic ethnography is a relatively new and still emerging methodology. The study of sound is multidisciplinary, informed by anthropology; sociology; ethnomusicology; acoustics; history; philosophy; sociology; medical studies; architecture; cultural geography; natural and physical sciences; performance and media studies; cultural studies; visual, performing, and mixed-media arts; and education research. Due to such interdisciplinarity, sound ethnography varies widely in terms of methods, theories, and practices. Sound ethnographies also differ in the purposes and conceptualizations of sound and study. They need not focus on organized sounds such as talk and music. They might also focus on emergent or sonic phenomena such as echoes and reverberations; ambient, found, or naturally occurring sounds in builtscapes or landscapes; music; sonic technologies; or even silence. Regardless of focus, sound ethnographers tend to examine the sonic in relation to social and/or environmental structures and patterns—not just how sound reflects such phenomena but, importantly, how it produces them. While ethnography has principally been a literary genre in the humanities and a qualitative research genre in the social sciences, a sound ethnography might be both conducted and presented in multiple ways, including writing, recording, composition, film, mixed media, art installation, and performance.

Practicing Narrative Inquiry

2014 ◽  
pp. 194-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur P. Bochner ◽  
Nicholas A. Riggs
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Moral Agency ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Pragmatic Development ◽  
Ethical Orientations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Crisis Of Representation ◽  
Small Story

This chapter focuses on the intellectual, philosophical, empirical, and pragmatic development of the turn toward narrative, tracing the rise of narrative inquiry as it evolved in the aftermath of the crisis of representation in the social sciences. Narrative inquiry seeks to humanize the human sciences, placing people, meaning and personal identity at the center, inviting the development of reflexive, relational, and interpretive methodologies and drawing attention not only on the actual but also to the possible and the good. The chapter synthesizes the changing methodological and ethical orientations of qualitative researchers associated with narrative inquiry; explores the divergent standpoints of small- story and big- story researchers, draws attention to the differences between narrative analysis and narratives-under-analysis; and reveals narrative practices that seek to help people form better relationships, overcome oppressive canonical identities, amplify or reclaim moral agency, and cope better with contingencies and difficulties experienced over the course of life.

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