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Textbox 2.2: A Summary of Strategies for Knowing the Present through Oral Histories

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In any use of a constructionist paradigm:

 Explain how you’ve addressed the likely gaps between the meanings narrators have experienced, and the narratives they’ve provided.

 Choose whether your focus is the past vs. its present-day meanings and the social processes influencing them.

To study plural pasts and their present-day meanings:

 Explore how reconstructions of the past change in changing contexts.

 Map out and seek to understand the divides in collective memory and the groups involved in remembering.

 Compare a state’s official history to histories from below.

 Examine families as sites in which official and autobiographical memories may differ.

Analyzing Talk in the Social Sciences

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