Personal Vulnerability and Interpretive Authority in Narrative Research

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All research based on in-depth interviews raises ethical and process issues, but narrative research demands that we pay special attention to participants’ vulnerability and analysts’ interpretive authority. Sociologists who use methods of narrative analysis to interpret in-depth interviews focus on how individuals’ stories embody general cultural processes or phenomena. We often select a small group of stories from a larger collection to serve as examples of the processes we want to study, and in our writing, we present those examples fully to demonstrate the relationship between specific stories and the cultural context. Thus research participants easily recognize themselves in our texts and readers who know them may recognize them, too, ...

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