Interviews as Activated Storytelling

Contexts and Subjectivities
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-63921-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Research Methods

Challenging the sanitized view of interview participants in standardized survey interviews, Interviews as Activated Storytelling contends that interviews are meaning-making occasions that produce useful but context-sensitive knowledge. Through a series of case studies, this book illustrates that research participants are not simply there for the asking and answering, but rather respond in relation to the conditions of particular social worlds, such that interview interaction and interpretation must be conditioned by and take into account the social worlds referenced in the process. The contributing authors explore how prior conceptions of interview participants as well as the interview process constructively inform and shape—or ‘activate’—the narrative process from beginning to end across diverse social worlds. Together with Crafting Ethnographic Fieldwork: Sites, Selves, and Social Worlds (2023), the two volumes offer experienced insights into the full range of analytic and procedural issues involved in qualitative discovery and documentation. The book therefore will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in research methods and social theory.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marvasti, Amir B.

Gubrium, Jaber F.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  Part I: Contexts  1. Interviews as Activated Storytelling Occasions  2. Immigrant Belonging: Meaning-Making in Three Interview Modalities  3. Life as A River: A Metaphor to Activate Marriage Migrants’ Life Stories  4. Navigating Small-Town Complexities: Unraveling Attitudes Through Ethnographic Research  5. Creating Meaning Together: Researcher as Participant, Collaborator, and Interpreter  6. Contextual Dynamics in Interviewing in Institutional and “Free” Settings  7. Activism as an Interpretive Context for Interviewing  Part II: Subjectivities  8. Activating Subjectivities in Research Interviews  9. Researching, Interviewing, and Co-Writing the Experiences of a World War II Pilot  10. Activating Prospective Hindsight Through Rehearsal Studios  11. The Active Respondent  12. Minding Whens, Whats, and Hows in Social Movement Oral History Interviews  13. Multi-Active Research Interviews  14. (Re)activated by Objects: Interviewing with and Beyond Unimodal Dialogue  Afterword

Über Autor(innen)

Amir B. Marvasti is Professor of Sociology at Penn State Altoona, USA. Amir’s research focuses on identity management in everyday encounters and institutional settings. Using a symbolic interactionist framework, he approaches culture, discourse, and social institutions as interrelated and ongoing practices that collectively shape the self in a social context. His empirical research in this area examines how people (e.g. the homeless) present themselves to others, particularly when required to explain their backgrounds and intentions; and how their self-presentations are related to whether they are helped or accepted by others. Extending his interest in identity management to the subfield of the sociology of emotions, his current research looks at how people narrate their emotions in ways that reinforce gender stereotypes.

Jaber F. Gubrium is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at University of Missouri, USA. The working premise of his research program is that no system of social rules is robust enough to understand its everyday application. Areas of study informed by this are aging and the life course, health and illness, human service organizations, constructions of family, institutional selves, and narrative analysis. Applying a critical constructionism, the goal is to make visible the assemblages of meaning that rationalization erases. Centered on the comparative ethnography of human service settings, he continues to explore and document novelty and pattern in troubles/problems reflexivity within the framework of what Erving Goffman called the “interaction order” and in tandem with a concertedly local brand of Michel Foucault’s concept of “discursive practice.” Jay is also founding and former editor of the Journal of Aging Studies.