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oapen-20.500.12657-590892022-10-26T03:37:26Z Narrating the Everyday Wojciechowska, Magdalena Rau, Asta Coetzee, Jan K. Emotions Belonging Enslavement Liberation Transformation Female Beauty Hair Discourses Creative Process Social Networking Interactions Relationships Online Gamers Lived Experiences Overcoming the Divide Group Identity Groupness Sangoma Healthcare Center Physical Disability Mother-Daughter Communication Intimate Relationships Stranger Experiencing Boundaries Insurgent Citizenship Sustained Resistance Local Taxi Association bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology 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. 2022-10-25T10:32:05Z 2022-10-25T10:32:05Z 2019 book ONIX_20221025_9781928424192_39 9781928424192 9781928424185 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/59089 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International 9781928424192.pdf https://ujonlinepress.uj.ac.za/index.php/ujp/catalog/book/76 UJ Press SunBonani Scholar 10.18820/9781928424192 10.18820/9781928424192 b166ea55-2ec8-4e5c-98ed-c27d3909a50b 9781928424192 9781928424185 SunBonani Scholar 468 Bloemfontein open access
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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.
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