Narrative Sociology defines classics, identifies exemplars of narrative analysis, and delineates a field in the making.Table of ContentsPart 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 MillsPart 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 GowanPart 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