Offers a comprehensive framework for analyzing the construction and use of stories in society. This centers on the interplay of narrative work and narrative environments, viewed as reflexively related. Topics dealing with narrative work include activation, linkage, composition, performance, collaboration, and control. Those dealing with narrative environments include close relationships, local culture, status, jobs, organizations, and intertextuality. Both the texts and everyday contexts of the storying process are considered, with accompanying guidelines for analysis and illustrations from empirical material. Methodological procedures feature interviewing, ethnographic fieldwork, and conversational and textual analysis. The conclusion raises the issue of narrative adequacy, addressing the questions of what is a good story and who is a good storyteller.

Postmodern Trends in Interviewing

AndreaFontana

Postmodernism has changed our society, the way in which we conceive of it, and the way we see ourselves and relate to others. Whether we consider postmodernism a radical break from modernism or merely modernism's continuation, profound changes have occurred (see Best and Kellner 1991; Dickens and Fontana 1994). We ...

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