Description

Identity and Story: Creating Self in Narrative is the fourth book in our edited series, The Narrative Study of Lives, published by the American Psychological Association. The series showcases the best and most innovative research and scholarship using narrative methods and theories in the empirical study of human lives. For the purposes of the book series, we conceive of "narrative" in a broad sense, encompassing approaches and traditions that focus on personal experience as expressed or communicated in language. Included in our purview, then, are case studies, life histories, autobiography, psychobiography, ethnography, discourse analysis, and other related approaches and traditions that tend to emphasize qualitative over quantitative analysis, hermeneutics over positivistic frames, idiographic overnomothetic points of view, and inductive over hypothetico-deductive strategies
of inquiry.