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Volume XIII Issue 1 the Narrative Study of Lives in Central South Africa January 31, 2017 Qualitative Sociology Review Volume XIII Issue 1 The Narrative Study of Lives in Central South Africa by Jan K. Coetzee & Asta Rau Available Online www.qualitativesociologyreview.org Qualitative Qualitative EDITORIAL BOARD Sociology QSR Review Sociology ©2017 QSR • ISSN: 1733-8077 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Review Patricia A. Adler Tony Hak Constantinos N. Phellas Krzysztof T. Konecki, University of Lodz Peter Adler Scott R. Harris Susan Pickard EXECUTIVE EDITORS Mahbub Ahmed Paul ten Have Jason L. Powell Łukasz T. Marciniak, University of Lodz Volume XII Magdalena Wojciechowska, Michael Atkinson Judith Holton Andrea Press University of Lodz Issue 4 Kate Bacon Domenico Jervolino Robert Prus ASSOCIATE EDITORS Howard S. Becker Benjamin Kelly George Psathas Anna Kacperczyk, University of Lodz Laura Bisaillon Robert A. Kenedy Antony J. Puddephatt Sławomir Magala, Erasmus University APPROVING EDITORS Nicolette Bramley Steven Kleinknecht Anne Warfield Rawls Steven Kleinknecht, Attila Bruni Hubert Knoblauch Johanna Rendle-Short Brescia University College Marie Buscatto Joseph A. Kotarba Brian Roberts Geraldine Leydon, Southampton University Antony J. Puddephatt, Lakehead University Tanya Cassidy Ireneusz Krzemiński Roberto Rodríguez-Gomez BOOK REVIEWS EDITOR Kathy Charmaz Margarethe Kusenbach Bernt Schnettler Dominika Byczkowska, University of Lodz Catherine A. Chesla Riitta Kyllonen William Shaffir EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cesar A. Cisneros Puebla Staffan Larsson Phyllis N. Stern Anna Kubczak, University of Lodz Adele E. Clarke Geraldine Leydon Antonio Strati ONLINE CONTENT EDITOR Edyta Mianowska, Zielona Gora University Jan K. Coetzee Lyn H. 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(4842) 635 52 63 The authors are responsible for obtaining the necessary Nina Veetnisha Gunnarsson Eleni Petraki Kiyomitsu Yui email: [email protected] permissions for publication of materials which are protec- www.qualitativesociologyreview.org ted by a copyrights owned by other persons. 2 ©2017 QSR Volume XIII Issue 1 Qualitative Sociology Review • www.qualitativesociologyreview.org 3 CONTENTS Editorial Florian Elliker, P. Conrad Kotze & Jan K. Coetzee Group Identity and Groupness: Student Experiences at University 112 Jan K. Coetzee & Asta Rau The Narrative Study of Lives: Editorial Notes 6 Alessandra K. Heggenstaller, Katinka de Wet, Jan K. Coetzee & Florian Elliker Narrating Experiences of Breast Cancer: Reflections of Women Attending a Private Hospital in Bloemfontein, South Africa 136 Articles Zukiswa Majali, Jan K. Coetzee & Asta Rau Everyday Hair Discourses of African Black Women 158 Jan K. Coetzee & Asta Rau Between Enslavement and Liberation. Narratives of Belonging from Two Farm Workers Ewa Glapka & Zukiswa Majali in Rural South Africa 10 Between Society and Self: The Socio-Cultural Construction of the Black Female Body and Beauty in South Africa 174 P. Conrad Kotze & Jan K. Coetzee Veronica Masenya, Katinka de Wet & Jan K. Coetzee The Everyday in a Time of Transformation: Exploring a Single South African Lifeworld Narrating Everyday Precarity: Women’s Voices from Resource Poor Areas 192 after 20 Years of Democracy 32 Naomi Yvonne Mbelekani, Amanda M. Young-Hauser & Jan K. Coetzee Michael Kok, Jan K. Coetzee & Florian Elliker The Sangoma or the Healthcare Center? Health-Seeking Practices of Women Living Overcoming the Divide: An Interpretive Exploration of Young Black South Africans’ Lived in the Mangaung Township (Bloemfontein, South Africa) 210 Experiences of Upward Mobility in Central South Africa 56 Ntombizonke A. Gumede, Amanda M. Young-Hauser & Jan K. Coetzee ‘Malilimala Moletsane, Jan K. Coetzee & Asta Rau Mother-Daughter Communication on Intimate Relationships: Voices from a Township Life as a Stranger: Experiences of Labor Migrants from Lesotho 74 in Bloemfontein, South Africa 228 Melissa Kelly, ‘Malilimala Moletsane & Jan K. Coetzee P. Conrad Kotze Experiencing Boundaries: Basotho Migrant Perspectives on the Lesotho-South Africa Border 92 On the Nature of an Integral Sociology: An Exploration in Theory and Practice 246 4 ©2017 QSR Volume XIII Issue 1 The Narrative Study of Lives: Editorial Notes Jan K. Coetzee & Asta Rau interviews, artefacts, and various texts—to describe/ narrative approach is seeking comprehensiveness of University of the Free State, South Africa understand routine and exceptional moments and understanding within the individual case. [Bazeley meanings in people’s lives. It is particularly towards 2013:342] The Narrative Study of Lives: Editorial Notes the understanding, description, and use of “excep- tional moments and meanings” that this Special In The Narrative Study of Lives program, we mostly Edition of the journal turns. John Creswell (2013:44) analyze several narratives that focus on a particu- shares the desire to unwrap exceptional moments lar issue in order to access the multiple meanings ach article in this Special Edition of Qualitative unwrapping and breaking open of meaning. Narra- and meanings when he talks about being “sensitive that people attach to it. Several research participants ESociology Review opens a window on everyday tives are not the only tools available to sociologists to the people and places under study,” to generat- would share their life stories in keeping with the reality in central South Africa. The articles all orig- in our quest to understand and interpret meaning. ing “complex descriptions and interpretations of the notion that “narrative understanding is a dynamic inated from research in the program The Narrative But, when it comes to deep understanding, narra- problem,” and to uncovering the “meaning individ- process, and narrative meaning accrues by degrees” Study of Lives, situated in the Department of Sociol- tives are particularly effective in opening up more uals or groups ascribe to a social or human prob- (Popova 2015:n.p.). The linear unfolding of events is ogy at the University of the Free State in Bloemfon- intricate levels associated with emotions, feelings, lem.” Most readers will agree that qualitative data almost always constructed by narrators over mul- tein, South Africa. These windows on reality display and subjective experiences. should lead to rich descriptions, fruitful explana- tiple interviewing sessions. Multiple narrative ses- the narrative as a methodological tool in qualitative tions, and new integrations. We trust that this Spe- sions create a mosaic in which individual elements research and reveal its potential to open up better All the contributions in this Special Edition re- cial Edition will achieve these aspirations. are pieced together to reconstruct singular events or understandings of everyday experience. We also flect on the methodological and epistemological to constitute a whole picture. Seldom is it possible reflect on the epistemological journey towards the practice of using narratives to understand, socio- Understanding through Narratives to assemble a picture of the “full reality” in one ses- logically. They also all reveal dimensions of the sion. Sometimes our hermeneutic journey towards same concrete reality—the contemporary society Few methods of data collection capture context, understanding—our reconstructions of other peo- of central South Africa. We invite readers to en- meaning, experience, subjectivity, the lifeworld, ple’s constructions—involves fewer narrators. The Jan K. Coetzee is a Senior Professor of Sociology gage with each individual article, which provides reflexivity, and action as effectively as narratives. first two articles in this Special Edition are examples and Director of the program The Narrative Study of Lives in a vignette—a brief episode—of a larger reality. We When people tell coherent and meaningful stories, of this: the first is an exploration of two life stories the Department of Sociology at the University of the Free also invite you to engage with the entire collection, embedded in a particular context, they reveal to us collected a decade apart and which
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