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Coming to Narrative
Bochner, Arthur P.. Ed(S): McCabe, Maryann
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Description for Coming to Narrative
Paperback. Weaving autoethnography, theoretical exposition, and a close examination of social trends, distinguished scholar Arthur P. Bochner shows how the theoretical paradigms in the human sciences have developed and changed over the past four decades. Editor(s): McCabe, Maryann. Series: Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: GTC; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 566.
Reflecting on a 50 year university career, Distinguished Professor Arthur Bochner, former President of the National Communication Association, discloses a lived history, both academic and personal, that has paralleled many of the paradigm shifts in the human sciences inspired by the turn toward narrative. He shows how the human sciences—especially in his own areas of interpersonal, family, and communication theory—have evolved from sciences directed toward prediction and control to interpretive ones focused on the search for meaning through qualitative, narrative, and ethnographic modes of inquiry. He outlines the theoretical contributions of such luminaries as Bateson, Laing, Goffman, Henry, Gergen, and ... Read more
Reflecting on a 50 year university career, Distinguished Professor Arthur Bochner, former President of the National Communication Association, discloses a lived history, both academic and personal, that has paralleled many of the paradigm shifts in the human sciences inspired by the turn toward narrative. He shows how the human sciences—especially in his own areas of interpersonal, family, and communication theory—have evolved from sciences directed toward prediction and control to interpretive ones focused on the search for meaning through qualitative, narrative, and ethnographic modes of inquiry. He outlines the theoretical contributions of such luminaries as Bateson, Laing, Goffman, Henry, Gergen, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Left Coast Press Inc United States
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
Series
Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives
Number of Pages
350
Place of Publication
Walnut Creek, United States
ISBN
9781598740387
SKU
V9781598740387
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About Bochner, Arthur P.. Ed(S): McCabe, Maryann
Arthur P. Bochner is Distinguished University Professor of Communication at the University of South Florida and a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association. He is the co-author of Understanding Family Communication (Allyn and Bacon); co-editor (with Carolyn Ellis) of Composing Ethnography (AltaMira), Ethnographically Speaking (AltaMira), and the Left Coast Press book series, Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives. He has published ... Read more
Reviews for Coming to Narrative
"The book is a knock-out, a powerful, at times shattering painful narrative. Carefully crafted, its words are chiseled in my brain, It maps a journey many before have taken, but few have had the courage to tell. The best part of reading it is not wanting to stop. There is no in-between here, you're either in all the way, or ... Read more