- Thursday,
May 20, 2004
- 9:00 am -
12:00 noon + 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- FULL
DAY WORKSHOP
- NARRATIVE
ANALYSIS: How to work with narrative data - with
Michael Bamberg, PhD, Professor of
Psychology, Clark University
- The aim of this
workshop is to learn how to work with narrative data. The focus will be on
narratives in interaction, and their use in ‘Identity Work’. This workshop
targets researchers in the social sciences who are interested in the analysis
of particular social (and personal) phenomena; who are using stories and
story-telling as tools to analyze these phenomena; and who approach social
phenomena as experiential and cultural phenomena through the lens of personal
experience and identity-formation (development). The focus is on the analysis
of narratives as ‘ordering devices’ for the world that is depicted within the
story (characters in the ‘there + then’); the world of the interaction
(characters in the ‘here + now’); and the formation of a sense of self (and
identity). This one-day workshop will give a broad theoretical introduction,
with three examples on issues of ‘adolescence’ and ‘gender’ and a second unit
in which there will be time to discuss projects of the participants.
- For more
specific information on how to prepare for the workshop, go to