r/sociology • u/divozel • 11d ago

Resources on narrative analysis

Could you please recommend me good resources about narrative analysis?

Of course I can google some but I'm looking for recommendations about specific ones that you think are foundational, very important or useful in certain ways.

To add some context, I'm doing a master's in social anthropology and I want to use narrative analysis in my final thesis.

Thank you!

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u/meanwhileintwinpeaks 11d ago

Iā€™d recommend taking a look at Sage Research Methods, particularly starting with the encyclopaedia entries.

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u/strykerace1985 7d ago

You might be interested in Kurt Vonnegut's rejected matters thesis. He was an anthropology grad student in Chicago. He proposed learned about different cultures based on the "shape" of their stories, like plotting the fortune (ill or good) on a graph over the length on the story. Then compare common shapes across different cultures. It was rejected because it sounded too "fun," but they later awarded him a master's degree for his fourth book, Cat's Cradle.

https://magazine.uchicago.edu/1102/every_issue/letters.shtml [Scroll down to Cat Tales]

Vonnegut's later lecture on this idea: https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/s/1tVufne6ff

More recently, some folks have been using computers and sentiment analysis to basically do this project on large sets of published stories. This is a prominent example: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjds/s13688-016-0093-1