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Interpretive Autoethnography

Interpretive Autoethnography

Paperback

Series: Qualitative Research Methods, Book 17

General Sociology

ISBN10: 1452299811
ISBN13: 9781452299815
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: Nov 1 2013
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
Like all writing, biographies are interpretive. In Interpretive Autoethnography, Norman Denzin combines one of the oldest techniques in the social sciences with one of the newest. Bringing in elements of postmodernism and interpretive social science, he reexamines the biographical and autobiographical genres as methods for qualitative researchers. Grounded in theory and rigorous analysis, this accessible book points up the inherent weaknesses in traditional biographical forms and outlines a new way in which biographies should be conceptualized and shaped. The book provides a guide to the assumptions of the biographical method, to its key terms, and to the strategies for gathering and interpreting such materials. Denzin introduces the key concept of epiphany, or turning points in person's lives. A final chapter returns to autoethnography's primary purpose: to make sense of our fragmented lives.

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General Sociology