ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author examines potential linkages between concepts that are currently victimized by disciplinary fractures. The author's area of inquiry is signified by the concepts of narrative, gender, and role. Narrative analysis has been a long-standing mode of inquiry in fields such as folklore and literature, and has recently been finding itself of use in the social sciences. Research on the development of narrative competence in children focuses on how stories expand and become more complex, and how children develop plot structures and causal linkages among events and story characters. Social roles are political and cultural allocations within a stratification system. Gender is a primary situation that simultaneously contains the authenticity of the self and is permeated by myth. When these roles involve men, we have role relationships that contain narrative scripts with somewhat different plots, temporal orders, and events. Those situations exactly reveal the narrative and storied nature of the problematics of role.
