Stories: Big or small-Why do we care?

By M. Bamberg. 2006

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Speech and Hearing, Visual Arts and Performing Arts

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Processes of Identity Development: Where I Am and How I Got There (2012, background): “Researchers have referred to these stories as “small stories,” thus distinguishing them from turning points or major life story moments (Bamberg, 2004 , 2006 , 2008 ; McLean & Thorne, 2006 ; Pasupathi, 2006 ).”
“Let Me Do What I Please With It . . . Don’t Decide My Identity For Me”: LGBTQ+ Youth Experiences of Social Media in Narrative Identity Development (2020, background): “These stories are constructed from preexisting sociocultural templates or master narratives (Cohler & Hammack, 2007; Hammack et al., 2009; McLean & Syed, 2015) that individuals rely on to tell big or small tales of a human agent embedded in a social world (Bamberg, 2006).”
Cultural Psychology Today: Innovations and Oversights (2009, background): “The narrative direction in cultural psychology works at the intersection of ‘small’ and ‘big’ stories (Bamberg, 2006), where a similar tension can be observed.”
Introduction: What is narrative research? (2008, background): “…rather, in the social patterns and functioning of stories, whether the ‘stories’ are short, disjointed sequences of conversation or much more extensive representations that exemplify broad cultural narratives (Abell et al., 2004; Bamberg, 2006; Georgakopoulou, 2006; Plummer, 2001; Squire, 2007).”
What is Narrative Research (2014, background): “This emphasis on ‘small stories’ brings together the Labovian commitment to research on ‘naturally’-occurring stories, and conversation-analytic as well as some discourse-analytic commitments to studying ‘natural’ language, and applies them to a wider and more social range of narrative phenomena tha”
Narrative Practice and the Transformation of Interview Subjectivity (2012, background): “…in this way casts participants as constructive practitioners of the enterprise, who work together to discern and designate the recognizable and orderly features of the experience under consideration (see Bamberg, 2006; Chase, 2011; Clandinin, 2007; Gubrium & Holstein, 2009a; Riessman, 2008).”
The SAGE Handbook of Interview Research: The Complexity of the Craft (2012, background): “…in this way casts participants as constructive practitioners of the enterprise, who work together to discern and designate the recognizable and orderly features of the experience under consideration (see Bamberg, 2006; Chase, 2011; Clandinin, 2007; Gubrium & Holstein, 2009a; Riessman, 2008).”
TESOL, Teacher Identity, and the Need for “Small Story” Research (2011, background): “Bamberg (2007) described this new narrative turn as one which emphasizes narrative as social practice, with increasing analytic attention given to ‘‘the contexts in which narratives take place, what they consist of, their performances’’ (p. 165).”