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Narrative Productions of Meanings - Exploring the Work of Stories in Social Life (Hardcover)
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Narrative Productions of Meanings - Exploring the Work of Stories in Social Life (Hardcover)
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In Narrative Productions of Meanings: Exploring the Work of Stories
in Social Life, Donileen Loseke examines the importance of stories
in an anti-science, anti-fact era where heterogeneity, rapid
change, complexity, and moral fragmentation combine to create a
multitude of personal, social, and political problems surrounding
meaning. The book's basic argument is that, within such a world,
narrative productions of meaning are particularly important because
stories can appeal simultaneously to thinking and feeling and moral
evaluation, and because they can do this in ways that have
cultural, interactional, and personal dimensions. Narrative
Productions of Meaning develops 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
that create coherence from the chaos of personal experience,
stories that persuade mass audiences that public resources are
required to resolve intolerable conditions, and stories that
justify the contents of public policy and the organization of
social services. It concludes with issues about relationships
between stories and the processes of democratic politics. Narrative
Productions of Meaning demonstrates the ways in which stories
create meaning and how this meaning shapes both subjective
understandings and material realities. 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; it demonstrates relationships between
story structure and the work people do with stories.
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