Cover Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword (David Silverman) -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The 'Narrative Turn' in Social Studies -- A brief history -- Enacted narrative as a basic form of social life -- Narrative as a mode of knowing -- Narration as a mode of communication -- Is there room for narrative in a postmodern society? -- About this book -- Exercise -- Further reading -- 2 How Stories Are Made -- Narratives into stories -- The ways of emplotment -- Watching while stories are made Exercises -- Further reading -- 3 Collecting Stories -- Oral history -- Collecting stories -- Telling stories -- Stories in and about organizations -- Ways of story collecting -- Exercises -- Further reading -- 4 Narratives in an Interview Situation -- What is an interview? -- An interview as an interaction and as a narrative production site -- Difficulties connected to eliciting narratives in an interview situation -- Avoiding accounts -- Interview transcript as a narrative -- Exercise -- Further reading -- 5 Reading Narratives -- Hernadi's triad -- The difficulty of explication -- Varieties of explanation -- Exploration -- Reading Egon Bittner -- Exercise -- Further reading -- 6 Structural Analyses -- The morphology of a fairytale -- Morphology of evolution theories -- Actant model -- Scripts and schemas -- Other kinds of structural analysis -- Exercise -- Further reading -- 7 Close Readings: Poststructuralism, Interruption, Deconstruction -- Poststructuralism in action -- Interruption -- Deconstruction -- Changing worlds -- Exercise -- Further reading -- 8 Reading Social Science -- Dramatist analysis of drinking driver research -- The anthropologist as author -- Storytelling in economics -- Leadership as seduction: deconstructing social science theory -- Narratives from one's own backyard -- Exercise -- Further reading -- 9 Writing Social Science.

Mimesis, or how to represent the world -- Plot, or how to theorize -- Exercise -- Further reading -- 10 Narrativizing Social Sciences -- The dangerous stories from the field -- The worrisome stories of the field -- The hopeful narratives -- Further reading -- Glossary -- References -- Author index -- Subject index.