scholarly journals Developing new ways to listen: the value of narrative approaches in empirical (bio)ethics

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernadette Roest ◽  
Megan Milota ◽  
Carlo Leget
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Narrative Medicine ◽  
Empirical Ethics ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Narrative Construction ◽  
Qualitative Interviewing ◽  
Empirical Bioethics ◽  
Narrative Approaches ◽  
Scientific Paradigms ◽  
The Social

AbstractThe use of qualitative research in empirical bioethics is becoming increasingly popular, but its implementation comes with several challenges, such as difficulties in aligning moral epistemology and methods. In this paper, we describe some problems that empirical bioethics researchers may face; these problems are related to a tension between the different poles on the spectrum of scientific paradigms, namely a positivist and interpretive stance. We explore the ideas of narrative construction, ‘genres’ in medicine and dominant discourses in relation to empirical research. We also reflect on the loss of depth and context that may occur with thematic or content analyses of interviews, and discuss the need for transparency about methodologies in empirical bioethics. Drawing on insights from narrative approaches in the social sciences and the clinical-educational discipline of Narrative Medicine, we further clarify these problems and suggest a narrative approach to qualitative interviewing in empirical bioethics that enables researchers to ‘listen (and read) in new ways’. We then show how this approach was applied in the first author’s research project about euthanasia decision-making. In addition, we stress the important ethical task of scrutinizing methodologies and meta-ethical standpoints, as they inevitably impact empirical outcomes and corresponding ethical judgments. Finally, we raise the question whether a ‘diagnostic’, rather than a ‘problem-solving’, mindset could and should be foregrounded in empirical ethics, albeit without losing a commitment to ethics’ normative task, and suggest further avenues for theorizing about listening and epistemic (in)justice in relation to empirical (bio)ethics.

Narratief onderzoek

KWALON ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anneke Sools
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
Narrative Research ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Narrative Approaches ◽  
Methodical Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Social Scientific

Narrative research. An introduction of characteristics and challenges of a rapidly growing research field. Narrative research. An introduction of characteristics and challenges of a rapidly growing research field. This article provides a brief overview of different narrative approaches in social scientific inquiry. First different definitions, methodological and epistemological approaches are introduced. Then, the emergence of a narrative approach in the social sciences is situated in historical and societal contexts. Finally, some challenges and potentials of developing this rapidly growing approach are identified. In particular the use of technological developments and the advancement of the relational turn in narrative inquiry are addressed. In the discussion, arguments are presented concerning a more methodical approach and attention is drawn to the risks of losing the humanistic potential of narrative research.

scholarly journals The existential imperative in narrating experience

COMPASS ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-55
Author(s):  
Thea Luig
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Chronically Ill ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Sense Of Agency ◽  
Therapeutic Practice ◽  
Narrative Approaches ◽  
The Social ◽  
Long Time

The idea that the act of narrating one’s experience, in particular reorganizing disruptive experiences into a coherent story, is conducive to well-being has become popular in the social sciences and in therapeutic practice. Ways of remembering and narrating draw on templates of the larger societal, historical, and cultural context and thus situate the memory of one’s particular experience within a collectively shared world. However, other voices argue that the driving force of storytelling is less the need for coherence or continuity, but rather the reconstruction of a sense of agency in intersubjective relationships. This paper will explore the question of what is at stake, what is existentially imperative, in the human practice of narrating experience. Using a phenomenological framework that pays attention to the intersubjective space of perception and experience, I will apply narrative approaches drawing on medical anthropolog y, linguistics, and psychology to my conversations with Mary, a long-time caregiver for chronically ill family members.

scholarly journals Telling the Collective Story: Symbolic Interactionism in Narrative Research

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 32-45
Author(s):  
Deborah K. Van den Hoonaard
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Symbolic Interactionism ◽  
Narrative Research ◽  
Marginalized Populations ◽  
Symbolic Interactionist ◽  
Narrative Approaches ◽  
The Social ◽  
Interactionist Approach

Recent years have seen tremendous growth of interest in narrative approaches to research in both the social sciences and the humanities. Much of this research focuses on the stories of individuals and how they tell them. This article addresses the contribution of a symbolic interactionist approach to develop the “collective story” (Richardson 1990) through the use of sensitizing concepts. It focuses on research on the experience of widows, widowers, and Iranian Bahá’í refugees to Canada to demonstrate how one can use sensitizing concepts to craft a collective story of members of marginalized populations that sit at the bottom of the “hierarchy of credibility” (Becker 1967).

scholarly journals T.T. Cloete as literary critic, theoretician and historian (Part 1): Columns, anthologies and literary criticism

Literator ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hendrik Van Coller
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
The Social ◽  
Personal Approach ◽  
Narrative Methodology ◽  
Creative Writer ◽  
Literary System

This article deals with the narrative approach in scholarship. Narrative research had seldom been seen as explanatory, but rather descriptive and in general had an emancipatory aim in the sense that absent or marginalised ‘stories’ were foregrounded. According to Hyvärinen (2006:2011) there had been not one but four ‘narrative turns’ since 1960: in narratology, historiography, methodology and in the social sciences. This article falls in the ambit of a narrative methodology by its personal approach, use of a case study and by its focus on a neglected aspect of the oeuvre of T.T. Cloete. Siegfried Schmidt, in Hjort (1992:225–249), discerned four ‘roles’ within the Literary System, that of literary production, dissemination, reception and literary processing. According to this definition T.T. Cloete, the well-known author and critic, played all of these roles. In the first part of the article the focus was mainly on Cloete as the writer of columns, anthologist, creative writer and literary critic.

THE POETRY AND ITS LITERARY RESOURCES AS QUALITATIVE METHODOLOGY

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (Especial) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Luis F González-Gutiérrez
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Research Trends ◽  
Narrative Construction ◽  
Poetic Inquiry ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Voice

This article describes the main contributions of poetic inquiry as a critical qualitative methodology for the social sciences and health sciences. Are first explored the present research trends associated with the use of poetry as a narrative construction form; in a second, the use of specific exercises is analyzed to identify the potential of narrative aesthetics in the construction of alternative subjectivities as a way of recognizing the voice of the research participants. Finally, there is an academic and reflective discussion about the need to use this methodology in the different universities and study centers in Latin America. It can be concluded that poetic research is a critical way of approaching community problems based on the voice of its participants. It is also a methodology that unites researchers and their participants in a generative dialogue, which enhances qualitative research.

scholarly journals Narrative Refiguration of Social Events: Paul Ricoeur's Contribution to Rethinking the Social

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Borisenkova
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Narrative Theory ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Event Analysis ◽  
Social Events ◽  
The Social ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Sciences Sociales

The analysis of events has been a central issue for social sciences for a long time. The problem of an event's definition and distinction is still at stake in sociological debates. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the contribution of Paul Ricoeur's narrative theory to social events studies. First, this is done through the explication of the concept in the framework of narrative approach. Secondly, the paper highlights the narrative's capacity of 'refiguring' the social by re-describing social events, subordinating their succession to the logic of story-telling and transforming temporal characteristics as well. Apart from some insights, interpretative explanations and illustrations the paper provides critical arguments concerning the limitations of Paul Ricoeur's narrative approach with respect to sociological event-analysis.     L'analyse des événements a toujours été une question centrale pour l'histoire et les sciences sociales. Le problème de la définition et de la distinction des événements est encore en jeu dans les débats sociologiques contemporains. L'objectif de cet article est de s'attarder sur la contribution de la théorie de Paul Ricœur aux études des événements sociaux.  Après avoir montré les limites d'une conception impersonnelle de l'événement, l'auteur se penche sur la solution narrative proposée par Ricœur, à savoir la capacité du récit à “refigurer” du Social par la re-description des événements sociaux. Il s'agit de soumettre la logique de la succession temporelle à la logique de la narration. Tout en rendant justice à la valeur heuristique de telles analyses (à travers une série d'explicitations et d'illustrations), l'article pointe les limites de l'approche narrative de Paul Ricœur au regard des analyses sociologique des événements.  

scholarly journals Narrating the Digital Turn: data deluge, technomethodology, and other likely tales

2022 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-65
Author(s):  
John Given
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
First Century ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Marshall Mcluhan ◽  
Narrative Approaches ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Narrative Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Collection Methods

In this paper it is argued that digital technologies will have a transformative effect in the social sciences in general and in the fast developing field of narrative studies in particular. It is argued that the integrative and interdisciplinary nature of narrative approaches are further enhanced by the development of digital technologies and that the collection of digital data will also drive theoretical and methodological developments in narrative studies. Biographical Sociology will also need to take account of lives lived in, and transformed by, the digital domain. How these technologies may influence data collection methods, how they might influence thinking about what constitutes data, and what effects this might have on the remodeling of theoretical approaches are all pressing questions for the development of a Twenty First Century narratology. As Marshall McLuhan once put it “First we shape our tools and then our tools shape us”.

scholarly journals Ricoeur’s hermeneutic arc and the “narrative turn” in the ethics of care

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Teresa Russo
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Therapeutic Relationship ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
The Social

Abstract“Patient-centred care” is the recent response to the malaise produced in the field of health care from the point of view both of a technical mentality and the paternalistic model. The interest in the story-telling approach shown by both the humanities and the social sciences has favoured a “narrative turn” in medicine too, where the new ethics of therapeutic relationship consider the hermeneutic method a means by which to integrate evidence and subjectivity, scientific data and patient experience. The aim of this paper is to show how Ricoeur’s theory of “threefold mimesis” makes a conceptual contribution to the use of narrative interviews in nursing and also be successfully transferred into and applied in the field of healthcare in general. First, the paper examines how this narrative approach might open up new possibilities for the acquisition of in-depth knowledge of patients’ life experiences, a condition indispensable for the improvement of the quality of care. Secondly, it highlights how this Ricoeurian method seems capable of provide an opportunity for healthcare professionals to review their own understanding of the caregiver-patient therapeutic relationship, beginning with their confrontation with the patient’s world as revealed by the narrative they provide.

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