Narrative explanation: an alternative to variable-centered explanation?
Abell, Peter
Narrative explanation: an alternative to variable-centered explanation?
Annual Review of Sociology, 30 (1).
pp. 287-310.
ISSN 0360-0572
The nature of narrative explanations is explored as an alternative to the better established variable-centered explanations. Narratives are conceived as di-graphs where the nodes are states of the world and the arcs are actions (causes). Comparative narratives are understood as mappings between di-graphs. Ethnographic and historical explanations, where the number of cases is small and causality complex, may depend upon a narrative depiction.
| Item Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords | causality,ethnography,historical sociology,low-frequency events |
| Departments | Management |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev.soc.29.010202.100113 |
| Date Deposited | 22 Jan 2011 15:28 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/31565 |