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Geschichten und Strukturen : methodologische Überlegungen zur Narrativität
Stories and structures: methodological reflections on narrativity
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Alheit, Peter
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| Abstract | 'Gewiss sind 'Geschichten', die sich die Menschen erzählen, aktive Konstruktionen der Wirklichkeit. Aber sie sind so wenig beliebig wie die gesellschaftlichen Strukturen, in die sie verwoben sind. Pointierter sogar: Sie machen Strukturen transparenter. Sie eröffnen den methodischen Zugang zur historischen Alltagspraxis der Menschen. Der folgende Beitrag will am Beispiel einer klassischen Methodenkontroverse des 20. Jahrhunderts, der Erklären-Verstehen-Debatte, zeigen, welche Reichweite Erzählungen als 'Laienkonzepte der 'Welt'' (Habermas) für die Rekonstruktion von sozialer Wirklichkeit haben.' (Autorenreferat) 'Of course, stories told by people are active constructions of reality. However, they are not arbitrary, nor are the social structures which they are embedded in. More specifically, they make structures more transparent. They offer a methodological approach to the historical practice of people's everyday life. On the basis of a classical methodological controversy of the 20th century, the debate on explanation vs. understanding, the following contribution aims to show the importance that narrations, as 'lay concepts of 'the world' (Habermas), have for the reconstruction of social reality.' (author's abstract)| |
| Keywords | everyday life; social reality; social change; discourse; methodology; Habermas, J.; explanation; social history; worker; biography; construction; qualitative method; reality; novel; understanding; narrative; Bourdieu, P.; narration; life situation; social milieu; modernization |
| Classification | Research Design; Science of Literature, Linguistics |
| Method | empirical; qualitative empirical; theory application |
| Document language | German |
| Publication Year | 2007 |
| Page/Pages | p. 75-96 |
| Journal | Zeitschrift für Qualitative Forschung, 8 (2007) 1 |
| Status | Published Version; reviewed |
| Licence | Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications |
| Document Type | journal article |
