Week 6 Flashcards
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What is Narrative
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- Lies at the heart of being human
- We are story telling animals
- Way we make sense of and create order of chaos in the world
- Expression of self through story telling
- Stories help us heal
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Narrative Approach
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- Dan P Adams 1993 - Stories we live by
- Influenced by Silvan S Tomkins
- Concerned with how stories shape personality
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What does Narrative Do?
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- The way we define ourselves
- Establish Temporal Continuity
- Distinguish ourselves from others
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Temporal Continuity
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When we are key characters in our narratives
We present a version of ourselves
Past, Present & Future
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Narrative Interpretation
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- An organised interpretation of a sequence of events
- Atrributing agency to characters
- Establish causal links between events
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Three Components of Narrative
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McAdams sees time as linear; from a western perspective
1. Beginning
2. Middle
3. End
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Narrative has Two Functions
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- Emplotment
- Creation of self-identity
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Emplotment
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- Attempt to bring order to disorder
- Organise a sequence of events into a linear plot
- Disorder is a challenge to our daily life
- Narratives are provisional
- Subject to change as new information is discovered
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Creation of Identity
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- We tell stories about our lives
- This creates a narrative identity
- This establishes Localised Coherence
- Stability across different contexts
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Narrative Identity
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- We begin construction in adolescence and continues through life
- Internalised, evolving and integrative
- Reflects our struggle to reconcile self image in context of life
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Narrative Identity to Establish Coherence
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- address particular problems we encounter
- specific points in the life course
- have a social dimension
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Narrative and Life Issues
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- Helps us make sense of specific issues in life
- Young adults may use their stories to attract partners and intimacy
- Parents try to instruct children in ways of the world
- Midlife adults construct stories that support generativity (Erikson)
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Social Dimensions of Narratives
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- Narrative Accounts are shaped by social context
- Narrator frames the story
- Story depends on the audience and broader social context
- Groups as have narratives that shape identity - Jewish Diaspora
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Master Narratives
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- Blueprints for people to follow when constructing their lives
- Become embedded in culture
e.g. go to school, graduate, find work, marraige and children - Gives us a sense of the arc of life
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Problems of Master Narrative
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- Stigmatise those who don’t adhere to them
- Give unrealistic expectations of happiness
- Change with cultural and historical shifts
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Two Culturally Dominant Master Narratives
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Contemporary Western Ideas
1. Redemption Story
2. Contamination Story
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The Redemption Story
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- Start of Bad and end Better
- Some early blessing helps with later suffering
- Gain insight or strength
- Leads to positive outcome
- Associated with greater well-being
- Positive seed in a negative experience
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Redemptive Stories - McAdams
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- Adults who show high generativity had identities with redemption narratives
- American culture holds metaphors that run through history and heritage - think Oprah
- Americans seem especially drawn to Redemption Narratives
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Four Canonical Redemptive Stories
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- Atonement
- Upward Socially Mobile
- Liveration
- Recovery
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Narrative Arc - Atonement
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- Moves from sin to salvation
- Massachusetts Bay Puritans who came to New World in 17th century
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Narrative Arc - Upward Socially Mobile
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- Rags to riches stories
- The underdog story
- Canonised as The American Dream
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Narrative Arc - Liberation
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- Historically animated social movements
e.g. civil rights, women’s rights, LGBTQI+ rights
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Narrative Arc - Recovery
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- Look back to a Golden Age or Paradise Lost that beckons to be refound
- Stories of recovery from illness, addiction, abuse
Again Oprah
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The Contamination Story
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- Start off positively and end badly
- The good becomes contaminated, ruined, spoiled
- Contamination sequences overwhelm or pollute pre-existing positivity
e.g. Ned Stark in Game of Thrones
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Contamination Themes in Real Life
* Tend to be connected with poor mental health
* Lodi-Smith et al., 2009
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2 Superordinate Narrative Themes
Mostly relevant in the Western World
1. Agency - Power
2. Communion - Love
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Personal Agency
* Ability to influence the course of your life
* Not allowing external forces to brign you down
* Prized in individualist cultures
* The 'fighter' is a common protagonist - goes to battle in a struggle for vitality
* linked with positive mental health
* Thought that it is beneficial over physical illness - Adler et al., 2015
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Locus of Control
* You are the master of your own destiny
* Your ability to hold agency over your life
* Degree to which one believes that they have control over the outcome of events in their lives.
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Communion
* Drive for connection with others - Adler et al 2015
* Prized on collectivist cultures
* Often found in stories of physical health
* Focus on social connections to regain vitality
* Linked to positive mental health
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Narrative Analysis - Epistomology
* Contextualist Epistomology
* Combines Critical-Realist and Social Constructionist
* Apply data to pre-exisitng themes or codes
* Not accept themes arising from the data
* Existing codes could assist testing a hypothesis
* Exposes language used in stories
* Focus on how themes and metaphors shape understanding of phenomena
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Collecting Narratives
* Primary method of this research is Unstructured Interview
* Simmilar to IPA tries to be Idiographic over Nomothetic
* Creates detailed account of an experience
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Two Types of Narrative Interview
1. Narrative Interview - Particular experience
2. Episodic Experience - Particular disruptive event
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Two Types of Narrative Interview
1. Narrative Interview - Particular experience
2. Episodic Experience - Particular disruptive event
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Other Ways to Collect Narratives
* Focus Groups
* Personal Journal
* Video or photo collage e.g. Instagram
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Information to Collect for Narrative Analysis
* Detailed Biographical Information about participants
* Background about central participants in their lives
* Detailed log of each interview
* Log is part of the data but also used to demonstrate Reflexivity
e.g. Think structure of program Alone
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Analysis in Narrative Approaches: Step 1
* Descriptive Reading - Similar to empathic summary in IPA
* Prepare short descriptive summary with beginning, middle and end
* Identify sub-plots in narrative
* Establish the connections between sub plots
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Analysis in Narrative Approaches: Step 2
Interpretive Reading considers 5 Issues:
1. Structure
2. Tone
3. Dominant Themes
4. Context
5. Language
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Step 2: Structure and Tone
1. Regressive Telling - Pessimistic
2. Progressive Telling - Optimistic
3. Stable Telling - Neutral, Objective, List of events
Note Epiphany Points that redirect narrative - e.g. Frozen
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Dominant Themes
* Underlie Major Beliefs and Values
* Coded for the prescence or absence of 4 Key Themes
* Uses Coding guide - Redemption, contamination agency & Communion
* Breaks down into sub-themes with examples
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5 Sub Themes of Redemption
1. Sacrifice
2. Recovery
3. Growth
4. Learning
5. Improvement
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Redemption Subthemes - Sacrifice
The protagonist wilfully accepts or endures an extremely negative A in order to provide B.
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Redemption Subthemes - Recovery
* The protagonist successfully obtains a positive state after losing it
* Could be in healing, survival, regaining, recuperating.
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Redemption Subthemes - Growth
* Negative experience leads to interpersonal growth
* Also fulfillment, actualization, strengthening, individuation.
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Redemption Subthemes - Learning
A protagonist gains new knowledge, wisdom, skills, etc. from a negative event.
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Redemption Subthemes - Improvement
* Something of catch all if subthemes doesn't fit above
* In a bad situation has negative outcomes
* In a good situation has good outcomes
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Sub Themes of Contamination
1. Victimisation
2. Betrayal
3. Loss
4. Failure
5. Physcal or Psychological illness
6. Disappointment
7. Disillusionment
8. Sex
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Contamination Sub Themes: Victimisation
Physical or verbal abuse, theft.
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Contamination Sub Themes: Betrayal
Affairs, Telling Secrets
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Contamination Sub Themes: Loss
* Significant others, job, money, property, self-respect, respect for another.
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Contamination Sub Themes: Failure
In school, sports, job, courtship.
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Contamination Sub Themes: Physical/Mental Injury
* Experience of symptoms
* Process of (mis)diagnoses
* Unsuccessful treatment/intervention
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Contamination Sub Themes: Disappointment
Things do not turn out as expected, things go wrong.
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Contamination Sub Themes: Disillusionment
* Correction of a positive misperception
* Role model betrays own teachings.
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Contamination Sub Themes: Sex
Enjoyment turns to guilt, humiliation.
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Sub themes of Agency
* Self Mastery
* Status/Victory
* Achievement/Responsibility
* Empowerment
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Sub themes of Agency: Self-Mastery
The protagonist strives successfully to master, control, enlarge, or perfect the self.
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Sub themes of Agency: Status/Victory
* Attains a heightened status or prestige
* Receives special recognition or honour through winning a contest or competition.
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Sub themes of Agency: Acheivement/Responsibility
* Substantial success in the achievement of tasks
* Assumption of important responsibilities.
* This is winning the war - not the battles
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Sub themes of Agency: Empowerment
* Protagonist is enlarged, enhanced, empowered, through their association with someone or something larger and more powerful than the self.
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Sub Themes of Communion
* Love & Friendship
* Dialogue
* Caring/Help
* Unity/Togetherness
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Sub Themes of Communion: Love & Friendship
* Protagonist receives erotic love or friendship
* Friendship Refers primarily between peers and platonic
* Love as i romantic or erotic partners
* Exludes Child/Parent love
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Sub Themes of Communion: Dialogue
* Reciprocal and non-instrumental communication with another person or group
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Sub Themes of Communion: Caring/Help
* Protagonist provides care, assistance, help or aid for another
* Could be physical, material or social
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Sub Themes of Communion: Unity/Togetherness
* Captures communal idea of being part of a community
* Protagonist experiences a sense of oneness with a group of people or even human kind
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Context
* Personal Context - Experience of the individual
* Societal Context - Broader Social Narrative; Sturcture everyday accounts
e.g. Being an outsider
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Language - Metaphors
* Lakoff & Johnson 1980
* Metaphors are understanding and experiencing one thing in terms of another
* Used to frame experiences
* Reveal how we conceptualise the world
* Imagery is equally powerful as a narrative tool
* Useful in Propoganda
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Quality in Qualitative Research
* Some say Reliability & Validity innapropriate in Qual research
* Prefer the term trustworthiness - Braun & Clarke 2013
Criteria exist base on
1. Methodology - Yardley's (2000) criteria for IPA
2. Ontological Position - Madiull et al., 2000
3. Trustiworthiness Concerns - Guba & Lincoln., 1982
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Big Tent Criteria
* Criteria for excellent Qual Research
* Tracy 2020
1. Worthy topic
2. Rich rigor
3. Sincerity
4. Credibility
5. Resonance
6. Significant contribution
7. Ethical
8. Meaningful coherence
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A Worthy Topic
The topic of the research is
* Relevant
* Timely
* Significant
* Interesting
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Rich Rigour
The study uses sufficient, abundant, appropriate, and complex:
* theoretical constructs
* data and time in the field
* sample(s)
* context (s)
* data collection and analysis process
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Sincerity
The study is characterised by:
* Self-reflexivity about values, biases, and inclinations of the researcher(s)
* Transparency about the methods and challenges
Can be demonstrated:
* First person pronouns (“I”)
* Reflexive statement
* Audit trail (look for a link to marked up transcripts, reflexive journal, memos)
* Acknowledgements section
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Credibility
* Is the research plausible and persuasive?
The research is marked by:
* Thick description, concrete detail,
* explication of tacit (nontextual) knowledge
* Showing rather than telling
* Triangulation (realist) or crystallization (relativist)
* Multivocality (use of multiple and varied voices in analysis)
* Member reflections: ““taking findings back to the field
* Determining whether the participants recognize them as true or accurate” (Lindlof & Taylor, 2002)
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Resonance
* Affects readers through empahtectic validity
* Aesthetic, evocative presentation
* Should be moving - at minimum should be clear and comprehendible
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Naturalistic Generalisations/Transferable Findings
* Generalisability not a goal
* Should have flexible transferability
* This is decided by the reader based on thick description
* Decide context & group is similar enough to constitute a safe transfer
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Significant Contribution
The research provides a significant contribution
* conceptually/theoretically
* practically
* morally
* methodologically
* heuristically
Questions to ask: “Does the study extend knowledge?”; “Improve practice?”; “Generate
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Ethical
The research considers:
* procedural ethics (such as human subjects)
* situational and culturally specific ethics
* relational ethics
* exiting ethics (leaving the scene and sharing the research)
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Meaningful Coherence
The study:
* achieves what it purports to be about
* uses methods and procedures that fit its stated goals
* meaningfully interconnects literature, research questions/foci, findings, and interpretations with each other
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Impact of Colonisation
Indigenous people who are alive today have experienced significant trauma
* Exposed to violence
* Dispossed of Land
* Forcible removl of children
* Not allowed in public area s
* Curfew
* Denied education and medicine
* Forced labour and government appropriation of their earnings
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Legacy of Colonisation
* Amplified by oppressive government policy
* creates intergeneral trauma
* perpetuates negative stereotypes
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Health & Wellbeing
* Attributions comprise beliefs we have about causes of disease and wellbeing
* Reflected in two key models of hHeallth
1. Biomedical Health
2. Biopsychosocial Model of Health
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Indigenous Concepts of Health & Wellbeing
Includes the Following Components
* Physical Wellbeing
* Social Wellbeing
* Emotional Wellbeing
* Mental Wellbeing
* Environmental Wellbeing
* Cultural Wellbeing
* Spiritual Wellbeing
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Conducting Culturally Safe Research
1. value diversity
2. conduct self-assessment
3. manage the dynamics of difference
4. acquire and institutionalise cultural knowledge
5. adapt to diversity and the cultural context of communities you serve
