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Narrative knowing and the human sciences / Donald E. Polkinghorne.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in philosophy of the social sciencesPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, �1988.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 232 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585057737
  • 9780585057736
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Narrative knowing and the human sciences.DDC classification:
  • 808/.00141 19
LOC classification:
  • P302.7 .P66 1988eb
NLM classification:
  • P 302.7 P644 1988
Other classification:
  • 17.81
  • 18.00
  • 70.02
  • 6,23
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- Narrative expression -- History and narrative -- Literature and narrative -- Psychology and narrative -- Human existence and narrative -- Practice and narrative.
Summary: This book expands the concept of the nature of science and provides a practical research alternative for those who work with people and organizations. Using literary criticism, philosophy, and history, as well as recent developments in the cognitive and social sciences, Narrative Knowing and the Human Sciences shows how to use research information organized by the narrative form--such information as clinical life histories, organizational case studies, biographic material, corporate cultural designs, and literary products. The relationship between the narrative format and classical and statistical and experimental designs is clarified and made explicit. Suggestions for doing research are given as well as criteria for judging the accuracy and quality of narrative research results.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-228) and index.

Print version record.

Introduction -- Narrative expression -- History and narrative -- Literature and narrative -- Psychology and narrative -- Human existence and narrative -- Practice and narrative.

This book expands the concept of the nature of science and provides a practical research alternative for those who work with people and organizations. Using literary criticism, philosophy, and history, as well as recent developments in the cognitive and social sciences, Narrative Knowing and the Human Sciences shows how to use research information organized by the narrative form--such information as clinical life histories, organizational case studies, biographic material, corporate cultural designs, and literary products. The relationship between the narrative format and classical and statistical and experimental designs is clarified and made explicit. Suggestions for doing research are given as well as criteria for judging the accuracy and quality of narrative research results.

English.

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