Abstract
How should we write our research? ... the question reflects a central postmodernist realization: all knowledge is socially constructed. Writing is not a "true" representation of an objective "reality"; instead, language creates a particular view of reality.... All social scientific writing depends upon narrative structure and narrative devices, although that structure and those devices are frequently masked by a "scientific" frame, which is, itself, a metanarrative (c.f Leotard, 1979).... Can we construct a sociology in which narrated lives replace the narrative of unseen, atemporal, abstract "social forces"?
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Reclaiming the local in language policy and practice |
| Publisher | Lawrence Erlbaum Associates |
| Pages | 197 |
| Number of pages | 225 |
| ISBN (Print) | 0805845933 |
| Publication status | Published - 2005 |
| Externally published | Yes |