Interpreting Experience

The focus of this book is on the role of narrative analysis in the social sciences and in increasing our understanding of human lives and experiences. Contributors address such questions as: Should in-depth interviews become occasions in which to ask for life stories so as to enhance a study of social phenomena? Can a richer approach to psychological understanding be reached by studying how experience conscious and unconscious is organized interpreted and reshaped throughout the life cycle? How can biographical work be used to shed light on the social construction of individual lives?</p><p></p><p>In addition the book covers the use of narrative analysis in career biography in examining turning points in people's lives in the effe