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Writing sociological fiction
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The value of fiction for public sociology and within qualitative research is well established as discussed by the authors, however, questions about process remain. Drawing from three contemporary projects, a novel, a series and a series of books, the authors present a novel-based approach to the process of qualitative research.Abstract:
The value of fiction for public sociology and within qualitative research is well established. However, questions about process remain. Drawing from three contemporary projects – a novel, a series ...read more
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Knowing through feeling: the aesthetic structure of a novel and the iconic experience of reading
TL;DR: This article proposed a "literary turn" to recognize literary texts as relatively autonomous cultural entities with their own agency, and examined how social knowledge comes into existence when reading a fictional text.
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Editorial: fiction as research: writing beyond the boundary lines
TL;DR: The editorial for Volume 6, Issue 1: Fiction as Research: Writing Beyond the Boundary Lines as mentioned in this paper discusses the importance of research beyond the boundary lines in the field of fiction as research.
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Qualitative research methods I: Emotionally engaged approaches to working with vulnerable participants
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors highlight the need for distinct approaches in qualitative research when working with the pain of marginalised and vulnerable communities, and identify barriers to emotionally engaged work including the need to rethink training and support for researchers.
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Waiting for Tindaya: Modern ruins and indigenous futures in Fuerteventura
TL;DR: The mountain of Tindaya (Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain) has been in limbo since the mid-1990s when the state institutions designated it as the location for artist Eduardo Chillida's Monument to Tolerance (a huge, bare cubic cave to be dug in its interior) as mentioned in this paper .
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Qualitative Quality: Eight “Big-Tent” Criteria for Excellent Qualitative Research
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a model for quality in qualitative research that is uniquely expansive, yet flexible, in that it makes distinc- tions among qualitative research's means (methods and practices) and its ends.
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Narrative configuration in qualitative analysis
TL;DR: The authors divide narrative inquiries into two distinct groups based on Bruner's types of cognition: paradigmatic-type narrative inquiry gathers stories for its data and uses paradigmatic analytic procedures to produce taxonomies and categories out of common elements across the database.
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For Public Sociology
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors map out the division of sociological labor and discover antagonistic interdependence among four types of knowledge: professional, critical, policy, and public.
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‘Nothing Comes Without Its World’: Thinking with Care
TL;DR: The notion of thinking with care is articulated through a series of concrete moves: thinking-with, dissenting-within and thinking-for as mentioned in this paper, which is a vital requisite of collective thinking in interdependent worlds, but also one that necessitates a thick vision of caring.
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Bakhtin's Theory of the Literary Chronotope: Reflections, Applications, Perspectives
Nele Bemong,Pieter Borghart,Michel De Dobbeleer,Kristoffel Demoen,Koen De Temmerman,Bart Keunen +5 more
TL;DR: The first scholarly tome dedicated to Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the literary chronotope was published by as discussed by the authors, where the authors explored the implications of the concept for a variety of theoretical topics such as literary imagination, polysystem theory and literary adaptation; for modern views on literary history ranging from the hellenistic romance to nineteenth-century realism.