Table of Contents

Part I: Varieties of Narrative

- The Sociology of Storytelling - Francesca Polletta, Pang Ching Bobby Chen, Beth Gharrity Gardner, and Alice Motes

- The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality - Hayden White

- The Collective Story: Postmodernism and the Writing of Sociology - Laurel Richardson

- The Use of Personal Narratives in Social Science and History - Mary Jo Maynes, Jennifer L. Pierce, and Barbara Laslett

- Explanatory Narrative Research - Donald Polkinghorne

- From Causes to Events: Notes on Narrative Positivism - Andrew Abbott

- The Trouble with Stories - Charles Tilly

- Life as Narrative - Jerome Bruner

- Reclaiming an Orphan Genre: The First-Person Narrative of Illness - Arthur W. Frank

- Narrative Freedom - Robert Zussman

- Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motive - C. Wright Mills

Part II: Narrative in Action

- The Normalization of Deviance, 1981-1984 - Dianne Vaughan

- Harvard: The Quota Controversy and the Quest for Restriction - Jerome Karabel

- Prologue to On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City - Alice Goffman

- A Little Room for Myself - Teresa Gowan

Part III: Narrative and Institutional Contexts

- Scientia Sexualis - Michel Foucault

- Grand National Narratives and the Project of Truth Commissions: A Comparative Analysis - Molly Andrews

- Narrating Social Structure: Stories of Resistance to Legal Authority - Patricia Ewick and Susan Silbey

- "It Was Like a Fever . . ." Narrative and Identity in Social Protest - Francesca Polletta

- Lifechangers and Lifesavers - Leslie Irvine