TY - JOUR
T1 - Narrating human actions
T2 - The subjective experience of agency, structure, communion, and serendipity
AU - Lieblich, Amia
AU - Zilber, Tammar B.
AU - Tuval-Mashiach, Rivka
PY - 2008/6
Y1 - 2008/6
N2 - In this article, the authors offer a model for the exploration of the ways social actors narrate the forces that have driven their lives. They position this exploration in light of the notions of agency, structure, communion, and serendipity, as formulated in various social-science theories of human action, viewed as part of the cultural repertoire of discourses available to narrators. The authors suggest a model for understanding the interrelationships between agency, structure, communion, and serendipity-as worked out in the subjective experience of life-story narrators-and exemplify the model through the analysis of one woman's life story.
AB - In this article, the authors offer a model for the exploration of the ways social actors narrate the forces that have driven their lives. They position this exploration in light of the notions of agency, structure, communion, and serendipity, as formulated in various social-science theories of human action, viewed as part of the cultural repertoire of discourses available to narrators. The authors suggest a model for understanding the interrelationships between agency, structure, communion, and serendipity-as worked out in the subjective experience of life-story narrators-and exemplify the model through the analysis of one woman's life story.
KW - Agency
KW - Communion
KW - Life story
KW - Narrative analysis
KW - Serendipity
KW - Structure
KW - Unconventional families
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=43149117013&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1077800408314352
DO - 10.1177/1077800408314352
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AN - SCOPUS:43149117013
SN - 1077-8004
VL - 14
SP - 613
EP - 631
JO - Qualitative Inquiry
JF - Qualitative Inquiry
IS - 4
ER -