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Geschichten und Strukturen: methodologische Überlegungen zur Narrativität

Stories and structures: methodological reflections on narrativity
[journal article]

Alheit, Peter

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 histor... view more

'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)... view less


'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 eve... view more

'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)|... view less

Keywords
modernization; social milieu; reality; Habermas, J.; social reality; discourse; narrative; explanation; everyday life; worker; novel; understanding; Bourdieu, P.; methodology; narration; qualitative method; life situation; social change; social history; biography; construction

Classification
Science of Literature, Linguistics
Research Design

Method
theory application; qualitative empirical; empirical

Document language
German

Publication Year
2007

Page/Pages
p. 75-96

Journal
Zeitschrift für Qualitative Forschung, 8 (2007) 1

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0


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