METHODS OF RESEARCH
NARRATIVE RESEARCH
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Focus on the experiences of individuals
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Concerned with the chronology of an individual’s experiences
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One that relates to an empirical instance or substantive topic area
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Focus on the construction of life stories based on data collected through active interviews
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Detailed explanation-1: -Narrative research places the data in chronological order. This is one main characteristic that makes narrative research different from other forms of research. The sequencing of events helps in creating a picture for the reader to appreciate the experience of the individual.
Detailed explanation-2: -Even though narrative research shares features of other qualitative research approaches such as the social focus in ethnography and the focus on experience in phenomenology, it is the simultaneous exploration of all the three elements: temporality, sociality, and place that shape and make narrative research/inquiry.
Detailed explanation-3: -It is also important to bear in mind in this context that narrative inquiry in the social sciences is a form of empirical narrative in which empirical data and theory are key elements in the work.
Detailed explanation-4: -While narrative analysis as a genre of interpretation includes several different frameworks, there are four typical narrative forms of analyses that may be used in concert with one another in a given study: structural, functional, thematic, and dialogic/performance.