Narratives in society, organizations and individual identities: An ethnographic study of pubs, identity work and the pursuit of ‘the real’
通过对当代英国“真麦啤酒”酒吧组织的民族志研究，揭示叙事如何在个体、组织和社会层面构建现实、协商秩序并塑造自我身份，为理解英国当代文化及民族志研究方法提供洞见。
Narratives play a very significant role in human social life. An ethnographic study within and ‘around’ a contemporary ‘real-ale’-based pubs organization shows narratives playing a part in the construction of reality at a societal level, in the negotiation of order at an organizational and family level and in the shaping of self identities at the level of the human individual. It is shown that narrative resources at these three levels of social reality come together in particular individual and social circumstances. In the process of doing this an ethnographic narrative about the ‘fall and rise’ of ‘real beer’ and ‘real pubs’ is produced. This offers significant anthropological insights into a culturally interesting aspect of recent and contemporary British life. In addition, insights are offered about processes of ethnographic enquiry and the potential for an ‘everyday ethnography’ style of research that ‘grounds’ theoretical work, without resorting to a notion of ‘grounded theory’.