Narrative Knowing and the Human Sciences, livre ebook

This book expands the concept of the nature of science and provides a practical research alternative for those who work with people and organizations.

Using literary criticism, philosophy, and history, as well as recent developments in the cognitive and social sciences, Narrative Knowing and the Human Sciences shows how to use research information organized by the narrative form-such information as clinical life histories, organizational case studies, biographic material, corporate cultural designs, and literary products. The relationship between the narrative format and classical and statistical and experimental designs is clarified and made explicit. Suggestions for doing research are given as well as criteria for judging the accuracy and quality of narrative research results.

Preface
I. Introduction
The realms of human existence
The study of narrative meaning
The plan of the book
II. Narrative Expression
The term "narrative"
The pervasiveness of narratives
Suppositions about human experience
The narrative scheme
Narrative and language
Narrative as discourse
Narrative expression
III. History and Narrative
History and formal science
Analytic philosophy and history
Narrative and French historiography
History as explanatory discourse
History as narrative discourse
Historical narratives
Ricoeur on narrative and history
IV. Literature and Narrative
Prestructural American criticism
Structuralism and narrative
Written narratives and point of view
Reception theory
V. Psychology and Narrative
The history of narrative study in psychology
Self-Narrative
Narrative competence
Life-span development
Freudian psychoanalysis and narrative
Organizational Consultation
VI. Human Existence and Narrative
Narrative and temporality
Action and narrative
Narrative and the self
VII. Practice and Narrative
Human experience as narrative
Research with narrative
Psychotherapy
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index