Truth or story or true story? The self in the interview situation
This study is a methodological inquiry into how individuals present themselves and picture their identity in the life-story interview situation and which are the settings which have a say in this presentation. In order to achieve my goal, I resort to life story interviews that I conducted with stude...
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| description | This study is a methodological inquiry into how individuals present themselves and picture their identity in the life-story interview situation and which are the settings which have a say in this presentation. In order to achieve my goal, I resort to life story interviews that I conducted with students coming from different parts of Romania to study in Bucharest. I pay close attention to how they order the events in their lives, what are the most common themes that appear in their discourse. I am particularly interested in scripts they employ and how the content of their narratives is a matter of co-authorship between the person telling the story and the one listening to it – interaction based on mutually understood knowledge of what the student experience means. In the light of the popularity narrative methods have in the social sciences, I address the problem of what kind of account social scientists actually obtain when conducting research based on narrative methods. I argue that this knowledge is situational and constructed in the interaction between narrator and interviewer. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8b3a0c806d88458ba025693b695ebe212022-12-22T01:32:48ZengUniversity of BucharestJournal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology2068-03172011-01-01223348Truth or story or true story? The self in the interview situationIulia GheorghiuThis study is a methodological inquiry into how individuals present themselves and picture their identity in the life-story interview situation and which are the settings which have a say in this presentation. In order to achieve my goal, I resort to life story interviews that I conducted with students coming from different parts of Romania to study in Bucharest. I pay close attention to how they order the events in their lives, what are the most common themes that appear in their discourse. I am particularly interested in scripts they employ and how the content of their narratives is a matter of co-authorship between the person telling the story and the one listening to it – interaction based on mutually understood knowledge of what the student experience means. In the light of the popularity narrative methods have in the social sciences, I address the problem of what kind of account social scientists actually obtain when conducting research based on narrative methods. I argue that this knowledge is situational and constructed in the interaction between narrator and interviewer.http://compaso.eu/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Compaso2011-22-Gheorghiu.pdfLife storynarrative researchsocial scriptsco-authorshipbiographical illusion |
| spellingShingle | Iulia Gheorghiu Truth or story or true story? The self in the interview situation Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology Life story narrative research social scripts co-authorship biographical illusion |
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| title_short | Truth or story or true story? The self in the interview situation |
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