Download or read book The Narrative Study of Lives written by Ruthellen Josselson and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1993-03-31 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we derive concepts from stories and then use these concepts to understand people? What would have to be added to transform story material from the journalistic or literary to the academic and theoretically enriching? Addressing these and other issues such as the interface between life as lived and the social times, distinguished contributors explore this emerging new field in this unique volume. Beginning with the philosophical framework that underlies the study of narrative, the book covers such questions as: what makes people want to preserve the stories of their past? What methods can be used to deconstruct a narrative text? Can what we learn from people's narratives of their past be used to account for their curr