Telling Stories: The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History 9780801457791, 0801457793

In Telling Stories, Mary Jo Maynes, Jennifer L. Pierce, and Barbara Laslett argue that personal narratives—autobiographi

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English Pages 200 Year 2012

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Use these fascinating first-person accounts to bring real-world problems into the classroom! The Use of Personal Narrati

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This book analyzes the role of oral stories in Chinese witch-hunts. Successive chapters deal with the implications of Ch

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For the past fifty years anxiety over naturalism has driven debates in social theory. One side sees social science as an

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"Few of the countless real-life stories of workplace discrimination suffered by men and women every day are ever to

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Screening calls from her father's creditors, hiding his mail from her mother—being the child of a compulsive gamble

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Siobhán McHugh dissects what makes a good podcast and outlines how you can create one yourself. She blends practical ins

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The concepts of rationality that are used by social scientists in the formation of hypotheses, models and explanations a

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The practice of selling one's tale of woe to make a buck has long been a part of American culture. The Unvarnished

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