Download or read book Narrative as Topic and Method in Social Research written by Donileen R. Loseke and published by Qualitative Research Methods. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative research is an increasingly popular qualitative method across the social sciences. Narrative as Topic and Method in Social Research has two purposes: firstly to show students and researchers how to do research on narrative topics, particularly on questions about narrative productions of meaning, and secondly to explain some fundamentals of research methods suitable for exploring these topics. In a final part of the book, author Donileen R. Loseke provides empirical examples of how such research is done. These chapters use small amounts of data to examine the analytic tasks of designing research questions, finding appropriate data, sampling decisions, contextualization, data categorization, and communicating study findings.