James A. Holstein

Varieties of Narrative Analysis

Part 1. Analyzing Stories Chapter 1. Exploring Psychological Themes through Narrative Accounts - Dan P. McAdams Chapter 2. Practicing Dialogical Narrative Analysis - Arthur W. Frank Chapter 3. Narrative Analysis as an Embodied Engagement with the Lives of Others - Andrew Sparkes and Brett Smith Chapter 4. On Quantitative Narrative Analysis - Roberto Franzosi Part 2. Analyzing Storytelling Chapter 5. Narrative Practice and Identity Navigation - Michael Bamberg Chapter 6. Exploring Narrative Interaction in Multiple Contexts - Amy Shuman Chapter 7. Speaker Roles in Personal Narratives - Michele Koven Chapter 8. Situational Context and Interaction in a Folklorists Ethnographic Approach to Storytelling - Ray Cashman Part 3. Analyzing Stories in Society Chapter 9. Analyzing the Implicit in Stories - Martha Feldman and Julka Almquist Chapter 10. Analyzing Popular Beliefs about Storytelling - Francesca Polletta Chapter 11. The Empirical Analysis of Formula Stories - Donileen Loseke Chapter 12. Analyzing the Social Life of Personal Experience Stories - Tamar Katriel

The Sage handbook of interview research : the complexity of the craft

SAGE Research MethodsThe SAGE research collection for learning J. (2012) ​The Sage Handbook of Interview Research : The Complexity of the Craft. 162-176. Beitin, Ben K. “Interview and Sampling: How Many and Whom.” The Sage Handbook of Interview Research: The Complexity of the Craft. 2nd ed. The interviews were analysed using inductive thematic analysis. The SAGE Handbook of Interview Research: The Complexity of the Craft, SAGE, Thousand.

AT THE BORDER OF NARRATIVE AND ETHNOGRAPHY

RECENT PROJECTS HAVE DRAWN US into analytic terrain that defies the emerging border between narrative and ethnography.This journal’s celebration of the turn of the century affords us the opportunity to reflect on the border as we consider ethnography’s past in relation to its future. We believe that the most promising challenge awaits qualitative researchers who are willing to work in relation to the representational tension of the border, not reinforce its separation. Narrative analysis refers loosely to the examination of the diverse stories, commentaries, and the conversations engaged in everyday life. Ethnography points broadly to the careful and usually long-term observation of a group of people to reveal the patterns of social life that are locally experienced. Ethnography presents details of living not always evident in stories and other accounts, which are notable from the “disinterested” perusal of interactional and narrative occasions. If narratives are best conveyed by those whose experiences they reflect, storytellers do not always recognize or know that what they describe is patterned and might be articulated differently at other times and places. Distinctive social patterning is highlighted by the comparative inclinations of ethnographers. In the practice of fieldwork, there is considerable overlap between narrative and ethnography. Fieldworkers traditionally have observed and recorded informants’ accounts as they have also documented indigenous social worlds. William Foote Whyte’s classic urban ethnography, Street Corner Society (1943), not only reports patterns of social interaction composed of leadership, followership, and their associated activities and sentiments in the street life of an American city, but simultaneously treats us to the narrative renditions of habitues. Recently,

Family Discourse, Organizational Embeddedness, and Local Enactment:

Treating family as an everyday, working vocabulary or discourse for assigning meaning to social relations, the analysis considers the social processes and descriptive conditions through which meaning is established, managed, and transcended. Highlighting both the descriptive utilities and the limits of organizationally embedded discourses, the article presents ethnographic material to show how family, although discursively and interactionally constituted, is a local enactment of practical reasoning substantively bounded by local culture yet offering grounds for resistance. The article suggests analytic orientations and strategies for examining family discourse and meaning in organizational context.

Phenomenology, Ethnomethodology, and Family Discourse

Conventional approaches to family studies typically begin with an understanding or definition of the family that specifies its characteristics as a particular kind of group. This seems eminently reasonable, both commonsensically and as a social scientific practice. We all believe families to inhabit everyday life as concrete entities, and to study them we must clearly designate what is being observed. But how is the student of the family to take his or her encounters with people in the “real world” whose images of family seem radically different from the academic definitions? Consider, for example, the now-familiar refrain of the athlete who explains his team’s success by noting that “We have a good family atmosphere going” (Gubrium & Holstein, 1990, p. 140). Or what do we make of urban anthropologist Carol Stack’s (1974, p. 58) report that in the community she studied, “When friends more than adequately share the exchange of goods and services, they are called kinsmen … if two women of the same age are helping one another, they call their friend ‘just a sister’”?

Ways of Aging

Contributors. Introduction. Beyond Stereotypes (Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein) Part I: Persistence. 1. Narratives of Forgiveness in Old Age (Helen K. Black) 2. Elderhood in Contemporary Lakota Society (Joan Weibel-Oralndo) 3. Claiming Identity in a Nursing Home (Debora A. Paterniti) Part II: Adaptation. 4. Three Childless Mens Pathways into Old Age (Tanya Koropeckyi-Cox) 5. Constructing Community from Troubles (Christopher A. Faircloth) 6. Family Lives of Aging Black Americans (Colleen L. Johnson and Barbara M. Barer) Part III: Change. 7. Aging and Change in a Religious Community (Sarah Matthews) 8. Identity Careers of Older Gay Men and Lesbians (Dana Rosenfeld) 9. Expectations and Experiences of Widowhood (Deborah Kestin van den Hoonaard) Epilogue. 10. Positive Aging (Mary Gergen and Kenneth J. Gergen) Index.

Producing Gender Effects on Involuntary Mental Hospitalization

This study examines how considerations of a candidate patients gender influence involuntary mental hospitalization decisions. Based upon fieldwork done in mental health and legal settings, I describe the dynamics of the commitment decision-making process. I argue that effects of gender do not derive from a candidate patients gender per se. Rather, genders meaning and influence is established rhetorically during commitment proceedings. I conceptualize gender and its meaning as products of specific situations and occasions, and not as a fixed qualities of individuals. My analysis demonstrates how gender effects are produced through the descriptive activity of commitment proceedings.

Qualitative Inquiry and the Deprivatization of Experience

Contemporary social life is increasingly deprivatized, that is, conducted under the auspices of formal and informal groups, organizations, bureaucracies, and institutions. In these circumstances, personal (often private) experiential objects such as family, self, and the life course are subjected to extensive public discussion, debate, and definition. This article raises the question, Do contemporary social theory and society reflect one another with regard to the public-private distinction? By way of response, the authors argue that theory has not adequately come to grips with the relatton between deprivati zation and the interpretation of experience. The article suggests an analytic approach that more adequately locates and accounts for the relation of public to private life theoretically and empirically, and it presents related methodological guidelines for qualitative inquiry.

Theoretical Validity and Empirical Utility of a Constructionist Analytics

Wing-Chung Ho offers an extensive critique of what he calls our “radical constructionist approach to family experience,” questioning the theoretical validity and empirical utility of the research program. This article responds to the charges in the broader context of the programs constructionist analytics, discussing familys experiential location, organizational embeddedness, and the importance of ethnographic sensibility. A brief extract of situated talk and interaction is presented to illustrate the discursive complexity and institutional bearings of family as a category of experience. The conclusion takes up the issue of whether the program is radical in conceptualization and empirical realization.

Social problems in everyday life : studies of social problems work

Part 1 Culture and social problems work: safe home, dangerous street - remapping social reality in the early modern era, Leslie J. Miller rethinking victimization, James A. Holstein and Gale Miller the burden of facts - rhetoric in the debate over Asian-American student admissions, Dana Y. Takagi. Part 2 Social problems work in the mass media: secondary claims making - claims about threats to children on the network news, Joel Best speak of the devil - talk shows and the social construction of Satanism, Kathleen S. Lowney. Part 3 Social problems work in human service organizations: creating clients - social problems work in a shelter for battered women, Donileen R. Loseke homeless in River City - client work in human service encounters, J. William Spencer. Part 4 Social problems work in social control settings: neutralizing resistance - probation work as rhetoric, William D. Darrough constructing serious violence and its victims, processing a domestic violence restraining order, Robert M. Emerson. Part 5 Social problems during public life: gender, social problems work and everyday philanthropy among strangers, Carol Brooks Gardner what Waco stood for - jokes as popular constructions of social problems, Kathleen S. Lowney and Joel Best.