Key Terms

  • autobiography, 225
  • biography, 225
  • consequence, 221
  • critical events, 219
  • epistemic, 216
  • generalizability, 231
  • historicity, 218
  • intersubjective, 237
  • life story research, 225
  • narrative inquiry, 215
  • narratives, 221
  • objectivity, 231
  • ontological, 216
  • oral history, 225
  • personal practical knowledge, 224
  • positivist, 236
  • raw narratives, 219
  • reflexive knowledge, 225
  • reliability, 231
  • sequence, 221
  • taxonomies, 221
  • transactional, 222
  • validity, 231

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