Narrative Sociology defines classics, identifies exemplars of narrative analysis, and delineates a field in the making. Table of Contents Part I: Varieties of Narrative * The Sociology of Storytelling | Francesca Polletta, Pang Ching Bobby Chen, Beth Gharrity Gardner, and Alice Motes * The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality | Hayden White * The Collective Story: Postmodernism and the Writing of Sociology | Laurel Richardson * The Use of Personal Narratives in Social Science and History | Mary Jo Maynes, Jennifer L. Pierce, and Barbara Laslett * Explanatory Narrative Research | Donald Polkinghorne * From Causes to Events: Notes on Narrative Positivism | Andrew Abbott * The Trouble with Stories | Charles Tilly * Life as Narrative | Jerome Bruner * Reclaiming an Orphan Genre: The First-Person Narrative of Illness | Arthur W. Frank * Narrative Freedom | Robert Zussman * Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motive | C. Wright Mills Part II: Narrative in Action * The Normalization of Deviance, 1981-1984 | Dianne Vaughan * Harvard: The Quota Controversy and the Quest for Restriction | Jerome Karabel * Prologue to On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City | Alice Goffman * A Little Room for Myself | Teresa Gowan Part III: Narrative and Institutional Contexts * Scientia Sexualis | Michel Foucault * Grand National Narratives and the Project of Truth Commissions: A Comparative Analysis | Molly Andrews * Narrating Social Structure: Stories of Resistance to Legal Authority | Patricia Ewick and Susan Silbey * "It Was Like a Fever . . .": Narrative and Identity in Social Protest | Francesca Polletta * Lifechangers and Lifesavers | Leslie Irvine | Narrative Sociology by Leslie J. Irvine, Paperback | Indigo Chapters