Narrative, trust, and understanding
Posted in writes, stories, acts, viable, hwat, consitutteds, oridnary, canonical, connecting, culture, deep, reprsent, consensus when, and, the, 1990, meaning, disagreement, bruner, jerome, General on Nov 14th, 2007 Comments Off
In Acts of Meaning (1990), Jerome Bruner writes,
To be in a viable culture is to be bound in a set of connecting stories, connecting even though the stories may not represent a consensus.
When there is a breakdown in a culture (or even within a microculture like the family) it can usually be traced to one […]