Narrative analysis has become increasingly popular in qualitative researches. While no part of the process is easy, researchers often struggle to make sense of data. A. Holstein and Jaber F. Gubrium suggest that a constructionist narrative approach deals with what people construct and how the social construction process unfolds. For example, Family usage can be described as organizationally embedded, that is, grounded in, and shaped by, the social organization of the descriptive domains in which family is articulated. They indicate that usage of the term ‘organizational’ here refers to any socially structured circumstance. Furthermore, they examine family discourse by using a unique term such as ‘the family written large’. What are they trying to analyze with these terms? The article proposes that the application of Maurice Halbwachs' concept of collective memory promotes a theoretical understanding of a constructionist narrative approach.

ナラティブ分析

集合的記憶

Narrative Analysis

Collective memory

Qualitative research

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