Publication details
Doklad ili razkaz? Kachestveno izsledvane na cenzurata v socialnite nauki v Chehiia, 1968-1989 godina.
| Title in English | Reporting or Story-telling?: Qualitative Research on Censorship in Czech Social Sciences, 1968-89. |
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| Year of publication | 2007 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Sociological Problems/Sociologicheski Problemi, Sociology and Interdisciplinary Knowledge |
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| Field | Sociology, demography |
| Keywords | narrative research; interdisciplinarity; narratology; writing modes |
| Description | If literary theory helps us to interpret imaginative texts, it should also enable us to construct texts that look like they are imaginative, but everything in them is based in (social) research. The article draws on research into academic publishing under authoritarian conditions: it began as research into language and ended as research into social and personal dynamics of text production. During the research a problem occured with writing up the research findings: academic mode of writing captured only a part of the story. A solution is presented: bringing together analytical methods of qualitative research and imaginative methods of textual presentation. The resulting text reinstates story as a writing mode for research reporting, while this practice additionally draws attention to the research process. |