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Narrative Productions of Meanings
Exploring the Work of Stories in Social Life
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2019
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In Narrative Productions of Meanings: Exploring the Work of Stories in Social Life, Donileen R. Loseke examines the importance of stories in an anti-science, anti-fact era where a multitude of personal, social, and political problems surround meaning. This book’s basic argument is that, within such a world, narrative productions of meaning are particularly important because stories can appeal simultaneously to thinking,feeling, and moral evaluation, and because they can do this in ways that have cultural, interactional, and personal dimensions. This bookdevelops a framework for social science examinations of narrative; it outlines relationships between stories, storytelling, and culture; and it explores the characteristics of several types of stories including self stories, stories that persuade mass audiences that public resources are required to resolve intolerable conditions, and stories that justify the contents of public policy. It concludes with relationships between stories and democratic politics. In multiple ways, this analysis crosses common divides: It draws from literature spanning multiple disciplines; it treats thinking, feeling, and moral evaluation as inseparable; it bridges cultural and social psychological perspectives; and it demonstrates relationships between story structure and the work people do with stories.
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Edition
1/2019
Copyright Year
2019
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-7777-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-7778-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
119
Product Type
Monograph
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1 Narrative and Productions of Meaning No access Pages 1 - 14
2 Narrative and Culture No access Pages 15 - 30
3 Narrative and Identity No access Pages 31 - 48
4 Narrative and Social Problems No access Pages 49 - 64
5 Narrative and Social Policy No access Pages 65 - 82
6 Reflections on Narrative Productions of Meaning in a “Post-Fact” World No access Pages 83 - 96
