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Weaving autoethnography, theoretical exposition, and a close examination of social trends, distinguished scholar Arthur P. Bochner shows how the theoretical paradigms in the human sciences have developed and changed over the past four decades.
List of contents
Acknowledgments; Credits; Preface; Chapter 1 Drifting Toward an Academic Life; Chapter 2 Graduate Student Socialization; Chapter 3 Staging a Dissertation; Chapter 4 Raising Consciousness and Teaching Things That Matter; Chapter 5 Double Bind; Chapter 6 Paradigms Shift; Chapter 7 Taking Chances; Chapter 8 Between Obligation and Inspiration; Chapter 9 Disconnecting and Connecting; Chapter 10 Life’s Forward Momentum; Chapter 11 A Twist of Fate; Chapter 12 Healing a Divided Self; Chapter 13 Finishing Touches; Story-Truth;
About the author
Arthur P. Bochner is Distinguished University Professor of Communication at the University of South Florida and a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association. He is the co-author of Understanding Family Communication (Allyn and Bacon); co-editor (with Carolyn Ellis) of Composing Ethnography (AltaMira), Ethnographically Speaking (AltaMira), and the Left Coast Press book series, Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives. He has published more than 100 articles and monographs on close relationships, communication theory, narrative inquiry, autoethnography and genre-bending modes of writing in the human sciences. His current research focuses on memory, narrative, and identity. In 2007, he served as president of the National Communication Association.
Summary
Weaving autoethnography, theoretical exposition, and a close examination of social trends, distinguished scholar Arthur P. Bochner shows how the theoretical paradigms in the human sciences have developed and changed over the past four decades.
