03072nam 2200685z- 450 991061947820332120231214133236.01-928424-19-8(CKB)4100000009513071(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/93315(EXLCZ)99410000000951307120202210d2019 |y 0engurmn|---annantxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierNarrating the everyday windows on life in central South Africa /editors: Jan K. Coetzee, Asta Rau, Magdalena WojciechowskaBloemfonteinUJ Press20191 electronic resource (468 p.)1-928424-18-X The chapters in this book reflect on the practice of using narratives to understand individual and social reality. They all reveal dimensions of the same concrete reality: contemporary society of Central South Africa. Except for two, all the chapters originated from research in the program The Narrative Study of Lives, situated in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Each chapter opens a window on an aspect of everyday life in Central South Africa. Each window displays the capacity of the narrative as a methodological tool in qualitative research to open up better understandings of everyday experience. The chapters also reflect on the epistemological journey towards unwrapping and breaking open of meaning. Narratives are one of many tools available to sociologists in their quest to understand and interpret meaning. But, when it comes to deep understanding, narratives are particularly effective in opening up more intricate levels of meaning associated with emotions, feelings, and subjective experiences.Narrating the Everyday SociologybicsscSouth AfricaSocial conditionsEmotionsBelongingEnslavementLiberationTransformationFemale BeautyHair DiscoursesCreative ProcessSocial NetworkingInteractionsRelationshipsOnline GamersLived ExperiencesOvercoming the DivideGroup IdentityGroupnessSangomaHealthcare CenterPhysical DisabilityMother-Daughter CommunicationIntimate RelationshipsStrangerExperiencing BoundariesInsurgent CitizenshipSustained ResistanceLocal Taxi AssociationSociology306.0968Coetzee Jan KarelRau AstaWojciechowska Magdalena1983-BOOK9910619478203321Narrating the Everyday3029370UNINA