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“I called Jacob from the information desk, as we had agreed. He guided me to an office-door with a yellow post-it note stuck to it: ‘Jacob Olsen, 11–14’. Jacob, having thus planned my visit, made me feel expected and welcomed. I soon learned that this level of order contrasted somewhat with his narrative account of ‘loose ends’”. In each of the four cases, Moen stresses two significant elements of analysis: the structure/pattern of the lived life and the structure/pattern of the told story. An essential element in the analysis is the relationship between the two, aiming at a deeper understanding of the subjective within a social context. Moen uses different panels to discuss the lived life and the told story of each interviewee. Their insights become a useful corrective in the reading of data.
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Moen, K. (2018). Jacob. In: Death at Work. Studies in the Psychosocial. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90326-2_4
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