A P Bochner
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 58638 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | A P Bochner |
| NOMBRES | A P |
| APELLIDO | Bochner |
| FIRMA | BOCHNER A P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of South Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1284-9186 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 724 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1974 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
“Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye”
Carolyn and Art tell the story of cleaning out their joint departmental office after retiring from University of South Florida. They detail the process and feelings of alienation and sadness they have about leaving their departmental home of Communication amidst a mobbing of faculty rebelling against their work in narrative and autoethnography and refusing to communicate to mediate disagreements
Between the One Who Remembers and the One Who Forgets
A relationship between a son or daughter and a parent diagnosed with dementia can be described as a relationship between one who remembers and one who forgets. In this essay-story, I begin with an autoethnographic narrative of an afternoon I spent in the nursing home in which my mother lived during the last two years of her life. The story exemplifies the kind of frustration, disappointment, and agitation I too frequently experienced as I encount…
Beginning at the End
Closing my eyes, I imagine Norman Denzin has entered my study. My mind conjures memories of Norman’s presence in my life extending over more than thirty years as I struggle through conversation to understand and accept that to reach the end of Norman’s life is to reach the beginning of another
Practicing Narrative Inquiry II
Narrative inquiry provides an opportunity to humanize the human sciences, placing people, meaning, and personal identity at the center of research, inviting the development of reflexive, relational, dialogic, and interpretive methodologies, and drawing attention to the need to focus not only on the actual but also on the possible and the good. In this chapter, we focus on the intellectual, existential, empirical, and pragmatic development of the …
Autoethnography as a Way of Life
Research Article| January 07 2020 Autoethnography as a Way of Life: Listening to Tinnitus Teach Arthur P. Bochner Arthur P. Bochner University of South Florida Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Autoethnography (2020) 1 (1): 81–92. https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2020.1.1.81 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Ico…
The Night of and the Mourning After
The writer presents an autoethnographic account of the night of the 2016 presidential election and the days and months that followed. Tormented by the prospect of Donald Trump's election, he expresses the feelings of gloom and doom that permeate the academic convention he is attending as he and colleagues from around the country respond to the menacing prospect of a Donald Trump presidency. Invited to speak at a postelection riff, he contemplates…
Unfurling Rigor
This article urges qualitative researchers to understand the work they do as inspired by practical concerns rather than by its ontological and/or cognitive status as science. It is time to let go and move on from the inherited vocabulary of scientific rigor. Excessive focus on rigor impedes and distracts from talking about other, more important, problems such as the ethical commitments, moral importance, and artfulness of qualitative inquiry. Cal…
Coming Unhinged
This story tells about an accident that occurred at the 2016 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. The first author presents her autoethnography of her partner's fall and her subsequent reaction. Then to complicate and deepen her telling, she crafts a second multivoiced account from the responses of eight people who were part of the event. The participants' stories are juxtaposed to tell a multivoiced tale and to theorize what happened i…
Heart of the Matter
This mini-manifesto synthesizes premises and foundational principles of an autoethnographic consciousness. Depicting autoethnography as a genre of doubt, I focus on autoethnography's ethical design, its gifts and afflictions, and the ways in which autoethnography troubles and transgresses the boundaries separating scientific and literary modes of truth telling. By encouraging modes of intimate, personal, caring, and self-reflexive expression, aut…
Living the Post-University Life
This panel, which took place at International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry in May 2016, examines the experiences of five scholars who have retired from university life and the responses to the panel by two scholars anticipating that transition. Panelists discuss how and when they decided to retire; the role of the university, department, and profession in their post-university lives; and the kinds of activities and connections that sustain the…
Evocative Autoethnography
This comprehensive text is the first to introduce evocative autoethnography as a methodology and a way of life in the human sciences. Using numerous examples from their work and others, world-renowned scholars Arthur Bochner and Carolyn Ellis, originators of the method, emphasize how to connect intellectually and emotionally to the lives of readers throughout the challenging process of representing lived experiences. Written as the story of a fic…
The Icqi and the Rise of Autoethnography
In this article, we trace the rise of autoethnography from its modest beginning as a form of indigenous ethnography through its inception as a mode of resistance to conventional ethnographic writing practices and silent authorship to its introduction as a narrative identity and covering term. Autoethnography has become a genus for many diverse species of first-person, vulnerable writing that calls attention to subjectivity, emotionality, and cont…
Into the Garden of Illini
On first-person narrative scholarship
Social science writing can be construed as a form of discourse that puts meaning into motion. This article reviews the cultural conditions that inspired the burgeoning interest in autoethnography, the kinds of truth to which it aspires, and the opportunities it opens to invite readers into conversation with the possibilities of happiness in the presence of human suffering. Autoethnographies attempt to make social science something more than an en…
Between Obligation and Inspiration
This story depicts a therapeutic interlude in the author's life that took place in 1981. Trained as an experimentalist in the tradition of positivist social science, the main character comes to therapy in the middle of a crisis in meaning stirred by a growing awareness that the social sciences are increasingly devoted to triviality, disciplinary fragmentation, and the production of mountains of data devoid of concern for the serious problems and …
Bird on the Wire
This narrative is a work of memory and mourning. In the aftermath of my father's sudden death in 1988, I had resigned myself to living without the closure of a healing conversation that could break through the cycle of repetition that had defined our relationship. Later, I realized that death ends a life not a relationship and through personal narrative I might be able to find a way to loosen the grip of the past and break free from my psychic in…
Autoethnografie
Autoethnografie ist ein Forschungsansatz, der sich darum bemüht, persönliche Erfahrung (auto) zu beschreiben und systematisch zu analysieren (grafie), um kulturelle Erfahrung (ethno) zu verstehen (Ellis 2004; Holman Jones 2005). Er stellt kanonische Gepflogenheiten, Forschung zu betreiben und zu präsentieren, infrage (Spry 2001) und behandelt Forschung als einen politischen und sozialen Akt (Adams & Holman Jones 2008). Forschende nutzen Grundsätz…
Resisting the mystification of narrative inquiry
I am grateful to Carol Thomas for including me in her impressive synthesis of contested perspectives on illness narratives. I applaud Professor Thomas’s effort to bring the different voices in this conversation together, even while I resist her insinuation that this is a methodological quarrel. If there is a dispute about narrative inquiry, it is not a disagreement about method but about aims. One side sees sociology as a fixed, confined, and sta…
Warm Ideas and Chilling Consequences
In the process of writing my academic memoirs spanning a period of more than thirty-five years, I discovered how crucial the work of Gregory Bateson had been to my life as a teacher, a scholar, and a relational partner. In this paper I celebrate Bateson's charming and incisive ideas about how communication works, his deep reservations about the worship of quantification, and his astute analysis of what is at stake when we make epistemological err…
Fathers and Sons
This article is written as a personal letter to the author of A Need to Know. The letter responds to the freshness of the narrative writing in the book, its risks and rewards, and questions whether this is a book about "knowing" or about "feeling." Shame, pain, loneliness, and rage are feelings often felt but not expressed in relationships between fathers and sons, and like many narratives, A Need to Know aspires to truth but can make no claim to…
Talking and Thinking About Qualitative Research
This script comes from an edited transcript of a session titled "Talking and Thinking About Qualitative Research," which was part of the 2006 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on May 4-6, 2006. This special session featured scholars informally responding to questions about their personal history with qualitative methods, epiphanies that attracted them to qualitative work or chang…
Analyzing Analytic Autoethnography
An Introduction to the Arts and Narrative Research
Writing the New Ethnography
Chapter 1 On Becoming an Ethnographer in the Academy Chapter 2 Finding the Story in Ethnographic Words Chapter 3 Representing Ethnographic Experiences: From Fieldwork to Fieldnotes to Stories Chapter 4 Voice, Reflexivity, and Character: The Construction of Identities in Texts Chapter 5 The Ethics of Writing Ethnography Chapter 6 The Future of New Ethnographic Writing
Session Six
Analyzing Analytic Autoethnography
Criteria Against Ourselves
In the social sciences, we usually think of criteria as culture-free standards that stand apart from human subjectivity and value. The author argues in this article, however, that conflicts over which criteria to apply usually boil down to differences in values that are contingent on humanchoices.Thedemandforcriteriareflectsthedesiretocontainfreedom, limit possibilities, and resist change. Ultimately, all standards of evaluation rest on a researc…
Narrative’s Virtues
Reacting to the charge that personal narratives, especially illness narratives, constitute a “blind alley” that misconstrues the essential nature of narrative by substituting a therapeutic for a sociological view of the person, this article speaks back to critics who regard narratives of suffering as privileged, romantic, and/or hyperauthentic. The author argues that this critique of personal narrative rests on an idealized and discredited theory…
It's About Time
When I learned that my father had died while I was attending a national communication conference, two worlds within me-the academic and the personal-collided, and I was forced to confront the large gulf that divided them. In this article, I weave the story of that experience into the wider fabric of disconnections that promotes isolation and inhibits risk taking and change within universities and academic disciplines. In the process, I question w…
The dialectic of marital and parental relationships within the stepfamily
Building on the theoretical and research traditions of Jules Henry, Salvador Minuchin, Jay Haley, and Gregory Bateson, this study presents an analysis of metacommunicational statements taken from interviews with nine stepfamily couples regarding their experiences in building a stepfamily. Interviews were conducted with each spouse individually and with each couple jointly regarding the issues related to reorganizing their stepfamily. Analysis of …
Conceptual Frontiers in the Study of Communication in Families
Conceptual Frontiers in the Study of Communication in Families: An Introduction to the Literature Get access Arthur P. Bochner Arthur P. Bochner 1Temple University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 2, Issue 4, June 1976, Pages 381-397, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2958.1976.tb00499.x Published: 17 March 2006
An Introduction to the Arts and Narrative Research
Personal Narrative as a Social Approach to Interpersonal Communication
Journal Article Personal Narrative as a Social Approach to Interpersonal Communication Get access Arthur P. Bochner, Arthur P. Bochner 1Professor of communication and Carolyn Ellis is associate professor of sociology, both at the University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Carolyn Ellis Carolyn Ellis 1Professor of communication and Carolyn Ellis is associate professor of so…
Unfurling Rigor
This article urges qualitative researchers to understand the work they do as inspired by practical concerns rather than by its ontological and/or cognitive status as science. It is time to let go and move on from the inherited vocabulary of scientific rigor. Excessive focus on rigor impedes and distracts from talking about other, more important, problems such as the ethical commitments, moral importance, and artfulness of qualitative inquiry. Cal…
Talking and Thinking About Qualitative Research
This script comes from an edited transcript of a session titled "Talking and Thinking About Qualitative Research," which was part of the 2006 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on May 4-6, 2006. This special session featured scholars informally responding to questions about their personal history with qualitative methods, epiphanies that attracted them to qualitative work or chang…
The Conceptual Domain of Interpersonal Communication Behavior
A provisional taxonomy of interpersonal behavior, ordered as a circumplex, was empirically derived from both the phenomenological and public communication ratings of subjects. At both levels, ratings were most prominently influenced by a Control dimension, made up of the perceptions of socially undesirable behaviors. The circular arrangements of the variables showed that a gap existed in the active and passive affective quadrants. It was suggeste…
On first-person narrative scholarship
Social science writing can be construed as a form of discourse that puts meaning into motion. This article reviews the cultural conditions that inspired the burgeoning interest in autoethnography, the kinds of truth to which it aspires, and the opportunities it opens to invite readers into conversation with the possibilities of happiness in the presence of human suffering. Autoethnographies attempt to make social science something more than an en…
Taking Ethnography Into the Twenty-First Century
Bird on the Wire
This narrative is a work of memory and mourning. In the aftermath of my father's sudden death in 1988, I had resigned myself to living without the closure of a healing conversation that could break through the cycle of repetition that had defined our relationship. Later, I realized that death ends a life not a relationship and through personal narrative I might be able to find a way to loosen the grip of the past and break free from my psychic in…
Coming Unhinged
This story tells about an accident that occurred at the 2016 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. The first author presents her autoethnography of her partner's fall and her subsequent reaction. Then to complicate and deepen her telling, she crafts a second multivoiced account from the responses of eight people who were part of the event. The participants' stories are juxtaposed to tell a multivoiced tale and to theorize what happened i…
Bringing Emotion and Personal Narrative into Medical Social Science
Living the Post-University Life
This panel, which took place at International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry in May 2016, examines the experiences of five scholars who have retired from university life and the responses to the panel by two scholars anticipating that transition. Panelists discuss how and when they decided to retire; the role of the university, department, and profession in their post-university lives; and the kinds of activities and connections that sustain the…
On the Efficacy of Openness in Close Relationships
(1981). On the Efficacy of Openness in Close Relationships. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 5, Communication Yearbook 5, pp. 109-124
Which Way to Turn
Fathers and Sons
This article is written as a personal letter to the author of A Need to Know. The letter responds to the freshness of the narrative writing in the book, its risks and rewards, and questions whether this is a book about "knowing" or about "feeling." Shame, pain, loneliness, and rage are feelings often felt but not expressed in relationships between fathers and sons, and like many narratives, A Need to Know aspires to truth but can make no claim to…
Love Survives
On the Paradigm That Would Not Die
Perspectives on self and other
The Night of and the Mourning After
The writer presents an autoethnographic account of the night of the 2016 presidential election and the days and months that followed. Tormented by the prospect of Donald Trump's election, he expresses the feelings of gloom and doom that permeate the academic convention he is attending as he and colleagues from around the country respond to the menacing prospect of a Donald Trump presidency. Invited to speak at a postelection riff, he contemplates…
Between Obligation and Inspiration
This story depicts a therapeutic interlude in the author's life that took place in 1981. Trained as an experimentalist in the tradition of positivist social science, the main character comes to therapy in the middle of a crisis in meaning stirred by a growing awareness that the social sciences are increasingly devoted to triviality, disciplinary fragmentation, and the production of mountains of data devoid of concern for the serious problems and …
Communication and Opinion Formation
Modes of Interpersonal Behavior
A portion of Lorr and Suziedelis' study (1969) of modes of interpersonal behavior was replicated. Lorr's Interpersonal Behavior Inventory was administered to 287 college students. Ss rated well-liked others and themselves. Factor analysis was performed on the two correlation matrices and the results were compared to those for Lorr's normal sample. Three factors were sufficient to account for the variance. Two major differences between the studies…
Conceptual Frontiers in the Study of Communication in Families
Conceptual Frontiers in the Study of Communication in Families: An Introduction to the Literature Get access Arthur P. Bochner Arthur P. Bochner 1Temple University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 2, Issue 4, June 1976, Pages 381-397, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2958.1976.tb00499.x Published: 17 March 2006
Whither communication theory and research
The Conceptual Domain of Interpersonal Communication Behavior
A provisional taxonomy of interpersonal behavior, ordered as a circumplex, was empirically derived from both the phenomenological and public communication ratings of subjects. At both levels, ratings were most prominently influenced by a Control dimension, made up of the perceptions of socially undesirable behaviors. The circular arrangements of the variables showed that a gap existed in the active and passive affective quadrants. It was suggeste…
Interpersonal Communication Theory and Research
This article reviews some of the intellectual developments outside of the field of communication which may have directly or indirectly influenced our field's rejection of logical empiricism and subsequently stimulated the metatheoretical controversies now being experienced. Special attention is given to the philosophy of language and action theory, cybernetics and modern systems theory and the crisis of confidence in social science. In the second…
On the Efficacy of Openness in Close Relationships
(1981). On the Efficacy of Openness in Close Relationships. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 5, Communication Yearbook 5, pp. 109-124
Perspectives on self and other
Interpersonal Perceptions and Marital Adjustment
The dialectic of marital and parental relationships within the stepfamily
Building on the theoretical and research traditions of Jules Henry, Salvador Minuchin, Jay Haley, and Gregory Bateson, this study presents an analysis of metacommunicational statements taken from interviews with nine stepfamily couples regarding their experiences in building a stepfamily. Interviews were conducted with each spouse individually and with each couple jointly regarding the issues related to reorganizing their stepfamily. Analysis of …
On the Paradigm That Would Not Die
Personal Narrative as a Social Approach to Interpersonal Communication
Journal Article Personal Narrative as a Social Approach to Interpersonal Communication Get access Arthur P. Bochner, Arthur P. Bochner 1Professor of communication and Carolyn Ellis is associate professor of sociology, both at the University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Carolyn Ellis Carolyn Ellis 1Professor of communication and Carolyn Ellis is associate professor of so…
Taking Ethnography Into the Twenty-First Century
It's About Time
When I learned that my father had died while I was attending a national communication conference, two worlds within me-the academic and the personal-collided, and I was forced to confront the large gulf that divided them. In this article, I weave the story of that experience into the wider fabric of disconnections that promotes isolation and inhibits risk taking and change within universities and academic disciplines. In the process, I question w…
Bringing Emotion and Personal Narrative into Medical Social Science
Composing Ethnography
Bochner and Carolyn Ellis, Introduction: Talking Over Ethnography chapter 4 Part 1: Autoethnography chapter 5 1. David Payne, Autobiology chapter 6 2. Lisa Tillmann-Healy, A Secret Life in a Culture of Thinness: Reflections on Body, Food and Bulimia chapter 7 3. Carol Rambo Ronai, My Mother is Mentally Retarded chapter 8 4. Aliza Kolker, Thrown Overboard: The Human Costs of Health Care Rationing chapter 9 (R. Ruth Linden, The Life Boat is Fraught…
Which Way to Turn
Criteria Against Ourselves
In the social sciences, we usually think of criteria as culture-free standards that stand apart from human subjectivity and value. The author argues in this article, however, that conflicts over which criteria to apply usually boil down to differences in values that are contingent on humanchoices.Thedemandforcriteriareflectsthedesiretocontainfreedom, limit possibilities, and resist change. Ultimately, all standards of evaluation rest on a researc…
Narrative’s Virtues
Reacting to the charge that personal narratives, especially illness narratives, constitute a “blind alley” that misconstrues the essential nature of narrative by substituting a therapeutic for a sociological view of the person, this article speaks back to critics who regard narratives of suffering as privileged, romantic, and/or hyperauthentic. The author argues that this critique of personal narrative rests on an idealized and discredited theory…
Love Survives
An Introduction to the Arts and Narrative Research
Analyzing Analytic Autoethnography
Fathers and Sons
This article is written as a personal letter to the author of A Need to Know. The letter responds to the freshness of the narrative writing in the book, its risks and rewards, and questions whether this is a book about "knowing" or about "feeling." Shame, pain, loneliness, and rage are feelings often felt but not expressed in relationships between fathers and sons, and like many narratives, A Need to Know aspires to truth but can make no claim to…
Talking and Thinking About Qualitative Research
This script comes from an edited transcript of a session titled "Talking and Thinking About Qualitative Research," which was part of the 2006 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on May 4-6, 2006. This special session featured scholars informally responding to questions about their personal history with qualitative methods, epiphanies that attracted them to qualitative work or chang…
Warm Ideas and Chilling Consequences
In the process of writing my academic memoirs spanning a period of more than thirty-five years, I discovered how crucial the work of Gregory Bateson had been to my life as a teacher, a scholar, and a relational partner. In this paper I celebrate Bateson's charming and incisive ideas about how communication works, his deep reservations about the worship of quantification, and his astute analysis of what is at stake when we make epistemological err…
Sociology (34 obras) · Psychology (28 obras) · Philosophy (17 obras) · Social Psychology (16 obras) · Aesthetics (15 obras) · Epistemology (15 obras) · Art (14 obras) · Autoethnography (12 obras) · Psychoanalysis (12 obras) · Narrative (11 obras)