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Autore: | Bochner Arthur P |
Titolo: | Coming to Narrative [[electronic resource] ] : A Personal History of Paradigm Change in the Human Sciences |
Pubblicazione: | Walnut Creek, : Left Coast Press, 2014 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (351 p.) |
Disciplina: | 300.92 |
Soggetto topico: | Bochner, Arthur P |
College teachers -- United States -- Biography | |
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Interpersonal Relations | |
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies | |
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology | |
Social sciences -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States -- History | |
Social sciences - Study and teaching (Higher) - History - United States | |
College teachers - United States | |
Social Sciences | |
Social Sciences - General | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Preface: On the Road to Meaning; Chapter One. Drifting Toward an Academic Life: Narrative Legacies; Chapter Two. Graduate Student Socialization: On Becoming a Divided Self; Chapter Three. Staging a Dissertation: Entry into a Professor's Way of Life; Chapter Four. Raising Consciousness and Teaching Things that Matter; Chapter Five. Double Bind: Selling Out or Risking Ruin; Chapter Six. Paradigms Shift: Dark Side of the Moon; Chapter Seven. Taking Chances; Chapter Eight. Between Obligation and Inspiration; Chapter Nine. Seeking a Home in Academia |
Chapter Ten. Life's Forward MomentumChapter Eleven. A Twist of Fate; Chapter Twelve. Healing a Divided Self: Narrative Means to Academic Ends; Chapter Thirteen. Finishing Touches: A Sense of an Ending; Epilogue. Story-Truth; References; Index; About the Author | |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 o |
Titolo autorizzato: | Coming to Narrative |
ISBN: | 1-315-43208-0 |
1-315-43209-9 | |
1-61132-775-X | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910786682303321 |
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