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Notes
1. This paper is adapted from and based on the author’s inaugural lecture at the University of
Loughborough, 19 May 1993.
2. This view of sociology as a story-telling witness is similarly developed by Marris who, in my
view, convincingly argues that ‘sociologists are tellers of exemplary stories, whose moral
represents a general truth’ (Marris, 1990: 82). As he concludes, ‘storytelling, in the full sense,
is not merely recounting events but endowing them with meaning by commentary and
dramatic structure’ (Marris, 1990: 86).
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