Narrative rapprochement to social phenomenon study: capital development lines

Abstract

This article organizes and argues for a Hispano-American audience the capital development lines regarding narrative studies, with a special emphasis on the contributions realized by sociological Anglo-Saxon and North American research during the last decades. The article explains this structural axis approach as well as its background, it discusses stories or tale notions and presents some examples of its operationalization, it describes the narrative analysis main characteristics and compares it with other strategies regarding qualitative text analysis and ends specifying some limitations and potentialities about this approach towards a qualitative social research conduction.