Secrets as Storytelling
Family Histories and Interpersonal Intimacy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2363773 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Magda Nico (0000-0002-4803-1119, Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, corresponding author), Maria Gilvania Silva (0000-0002-9246-9724, Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa), Ana Caetano (0000-0002-1864-3923, Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 973-991 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0731-1214 • E-ISSN: 1533-8673 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/07311214231180563 |
| OpenAlex | W4382246328 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 33 |
Keeping and telling secrets are acts of intimacy. This article explores secret-telling-friendly methodologies, capable of encouraging individuals to share their life stories in their own terms, with particular episodes, emotional connections, protagonists, and also secrets. The openness of our research design played an important part in the identification of the role of secret-storytelling in the understanding of life. This was enhanced by methodological tools mobilized during the biographical interviews with individuals of families (the life calendar and the socio-genealogical tree). It testifies the importance of the research design, and method lato sensu, in the sociological analysis of secrets. Each secret connects to the person's biography, social positioning, historical context, and generational anchor, contributing to understand more about wider social, gender, family, interpersonal, and normative values of given time-space coordinates. Secrets are narrative and emotional devices to build biographical narratives and chronologize life stories, bridging biography and society, exemplarily
Aesthetics · Art · Biography · Family life · Family tree · Genealogy · Interpersonal communication · Literature · Narrative · Normative · Openness to experience · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Storytelling · Data Analysis and Archiving · Gender Studies · History · Law · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Applications · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology
Text, play, and story
Examining the Relationship Between Financial Issues and Divorce
A Family Jigsaw Story
Emotions as Commentaries on Human Concerns
Practical Reason
Researching Life Stories and Family Histories
The culture of family secrets
Given it is all so remote from us’
Convict shame to convict chic
Developing an analytical framework for multiple perspective, qualitative longitudinal interviews (MPQLI)
Law and the Regulation of Family Secrets
Criteria for revealing family secrets
Using 'Turning Points' to Understand Processes of Change in Offending
Narrative Inheritance
Sociology
Revealing Family Secrets
The cycle of concealment model
Secret des origines / inceste / procréation médicalement assistée avec des gamètes anonymes
Sins of the Father
Revealing and concealing secrets in research
Hidden heirlooms
My Family Secret
Ethics, Reflexivity, and "Ethically Important Moments" in Research
Family Secrets
Emotional Reflexivity
Families, Secrets and Memories
Foi Por Acaso
Love, Lies, and Money
The Sociology of Secrecy and of Secret Societies
Family Secrets
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |