The Uses of Narrative

Social scientists increasingly invoke "narrative" in their theory and research

Shelley Sclater

I: Narrative and culture; Introduction; 1: Narrative, civil society and public culture; 2: Resurrective practice and narrative; 3: Wedding bells and baby carriages; 4: Narratives as bad faith; II: Narrative and life history; Introduction; 5: When the story's over; 6: A cautious ethnography of socialism; 7: 'Papa's bomb'; 8: Betrayals, trauma and self-redemption?; III: Narrative and discourse; Introduction; 9: Narrative, discourse and the unconscious; 10: Fictional(isitig) identity?; 11: 'Let them rot'; 12: Narrative and the discursive (re)construction of events