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Reflecting on a 50 year university career, Distinguished Professor Arthur Bochner, former President of the National Communication Association, discloses a lived history, both academic and personal, that has paralleled many of the paradigm shifts in the human sciences inspired by the turn toward narrative. He shows how the human sciences-especially in his own areas of interpersonal, family, and communication theory-have evolved from sciences directed toward prediction and control to interpretive ones focused on the search for meaning through qualitative, narrative, and ethnographic modes o

Bochner, Arthur P. --- College teachers -- United States -- Biography. --- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Interpersonal Relations. --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology. --- Social sciences -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States -- History. --- Social sciences --- College teachers --- Social Sciences --- Social Sciences - General --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- History