December 2011
Beginner
556 pages
17h 18m
English
Qualitative research generally uses narratives, verbal acts that include someone telling another person that an event occurred (Smith, 1981), for descriptive purposes to categorize and form taxonomies (classifications of themes based on similarities) to understand differences and similarities among and between stories. Narrative inquiry
refers to any study that uses or analyzes narrative materials. The data can be collected as a story (a life story provided in an interview or a literary work) or in a different manner (field notes of an anthropologist who writes up his or her observations as a narrative or in personal letters). It can be the object of the research or a means for the study of ...
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