NARATIVE RESEARCH – A METHOD FOR FAMILY ANALYSIS
NARATIVE RESEARCH – A METHOD FOR FAMILY ANALYSIS

Summary/Abstract: Narrative research has relatively recent gained a privileged place for various disciplines like psychology, psychotherapy, education sciences, sociology etc. in order to compare more groups of subjects, to explore somebody personality or to describe social phenomena. Narrative methodologies have become an integrator part of social sciences, and, concomitant with this evolution, a series of studies based on this method have developed. Using narrative approach, we proposed to analyse some issues concerning traditional Romanian families. So, we have focused on distribution of household activities, family authority, traditions and rituals. An important finding was that families were productive (services and products were made inside families) and that gave them financial independence; obedience and respect for the authority was an important value for traditional family and this, in our opinion, could be a way of survival and equilibrium of family as institution in difficult period of times. Also, traditions and rituals have straightened families in a hard period of time: after Second World War.

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