Narrative interviewing

This chapter introduces narrative interviewing as a qualitative research method that focuses on eliciting people’s stories as a way of understanding how they make sense of social experience. It outlines key ideas from narrative theory and explains the narrative interview procedure, including when it is most appropriate to use, how it differs from other interview approaches, and the kinds of data it produces. The chapter also discusses common challenges and the epistemological question of what narratives can and cannot tell us about social reality.

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