摘要：Contributions in this Special Edition reflect onthe epistemological and methodological practiceof using narratives to understand individualand social reality from a sociological standpoint.They all reveal dimensions of the same concrete reality:contemporary society of Central South Africa.We invite readers to engage with individual articles,each of which provide a brief episode—a vignette—in a larger reality. We also invite you to engage withthe entire collection, through which a more detailedand clearer picture of the larger reality will emerge.
