"Futures Pitilessly Blocked And Passions Violently Choked:" Narrating Fatalism In Non-Resident Fatherhood

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dc.contributor.authorVaughan, James
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
dc.contributor.supervisorRamp, William
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-13T21:59:18Z
dc.date.available2020-01-13T21:59:18Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis, I use the Durkheimian concept of fatalism, a condition of excessive social regulation, to reinterpret the published personal journal of a non-resident father who constructs himself as a victim of unjust circumstances in relation to his non-resident status. This reinterpretation is undertaken through a reflexive narrative analysis to demonstrate that his story, written as if an expression of personal experience, is socially situated as a narrative construction. I also examine my own subject-formation and positionality to reflect on my implication in the text as a sympathetic, “preferred” reader. I show how this process of reflection also affected my conceptualization of fatalism and its application to the document in question. I explain how the act of writing this thesis became a reflexive journey toward a non-positivist approach to understanding and applying a Durkheimian concept and to assessing the narrative construction of “experiential” truth-claims by writers and readers.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/5657
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.proquest.subjectSocial research [0344]en_US
dc.proquest.subjectIndividual & family studies [0628]en_US
dc.proquestyesYesen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Sociologyen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Sociologyen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)en_US
dc.subjectDurkheim, Émile, 1858-1917en_US
dc.subjectFamiliesen_US
dc.subjectFate and fatalismen_US
dc.subjectFatherhooden_US
dc.subjectNarrative inquiry (Research method)en_US
dc.subjectParenthooden_US
dc.title"Futures Pitilessly Blocked And Passions Violently Choked:" Narrating Fatalism In Non-Resident Fatherhooden_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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