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Reading Narratives

Narrative Research, School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies, University of East London, 4–6 University Way, London E16 2RD, UKc.squire{at}uel.ac.uk

Narratives are an increasingly popular focus of social research. Perhaps this is because ‘stories’ seem to promise human universality and accessibility, while analysis of them requires a rewardingly comprehensive attention to individual, social and cultural dimensions of language and meaning. In this paper, I examine some persuasive modes of understanding the social world as narrative, and the significance of such approaches for modes of social research and practice, including some operating within group analysis.

Key Words: story • narrative • language • identity • culture

Group Analysis, Vol. 38, No. 1, 91-107 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0533316405049373


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