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" Investigating subjectivity : "
Carolyn Ellis, Michael G. Flaherty, editors.
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BL
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979089
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b733459
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Investigating subjectivity : : research on lived experience /\ Carolyn Ellis, Michael G. Flaherty, editors.
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Newbury Park :: Sage Publications,, ©1992.
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Sage focus editions ;; 139
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vii, 259 pages ;; 23 cm
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0803944969
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: 0803944977
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: 9780803944978
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"This volume grew out of the 1990 Stone Symposium, the 'Sociology of Subjectivity', sponsored by the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction"--Page 1.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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| Contents
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An agenda for the interpretation of lived experience / Carolyn Ellis, Michael G. Flaherty -- Interpreting texts. The many faces of emotionality : reading persona / Norma K. Denzin -- Archival research in intertextual analysis : four representations of the life of Dr. Lillian Moller Gilbreth / Laurel Graham -- Women's subjectivity and feminist stories / Bronwyn Davies -- Creating texts. Telling and performing personal stories : the constraints of choice in abortion / Carolyn Ellis and Arthur P. Bochner -- The reflexive self through narrative : a night in the life of an erotic dancer/researcher / Carol Rambo Ronai -- The consequences of poetic representation : writing the other, rewriting the self / Laurel Richardson -- Experiencing subjectivity. The erotics and hermeneutics of temporality / Michael G. Flaherty -- Wild life : authenticity and the human experience of "natural" places / Gary Alan Fine -- The trail through experience : finding self in the recollection of travel / Mark Neumann -- Transformations of the self. Extraordinary events and mundane ailments : the contextual dialectics of the embodied self / Virginia L. Olesen -- The self, its voices, and their discord / John H. Gagnon.
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Much has been missed by social researchers in their attempt to understand the human experience as a series of rational, cognitive choices. What comes under the rubric of "lived experience" fits no researcher's model other than, in the words of one of the volume's contributors, "one damned thing after another." Human subjectivity in lived experience, both that of the subject and of the researcher, is the topic of Investigating Subjectivity, an important corrective to the cool, disdainful stance of most previous social research. The dozen contributors examine various aspects of subject--the emotions, the gendered nature of experiences, the body-mind relationship, perceptions of time, place and setting, understanding of the self--and how these elements provide a fuller understanding of the human condition, incorporating subjectivity into research requires a new set of methods--systematic introspection, self-ethnography, staged readings, poetry, stories--many of which are demonstrated in the book. It also requires a focus on mundane (minor ailments, media images, hobbies) and extraordinary (exotic trips, earthquakes, abortion experience), elements, which make up the bulk of lived experience, and how people react to these life events. Investigating Subjectivity stands out from any other books in the field because the emphasis is on research rather than theory or conceptualization. This outstanding volume is quality reading for academicians and undergraduate and graduate students in sociology, cultural studies, qualitative methods. and communication, especially those interested in emotions, narration, textual analysis, and symbolic interaction.
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Social psychology-- Methodology.
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Subjectivity.
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Psychologie sociale-- Méthodologie.
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Subjectivité
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Empirische Sozialforschung
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Forschungsmethode
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Social psychology-- Methodology.
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Sozialpsychologie
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Subjectivity.
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Subjektivität
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Forschungsmethode.
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Sozialpsychologie.
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Subjektivität.
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Onderzoeksmethoden.
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Sociale psychologie.
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Subjectiviteit.
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| Dewey Classification
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301/.072
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HM251.S8369 1992
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70.02bcl
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CP 9500rvk
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Ellis, Carolyn,1950-
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Flaherty, Michael G.
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