Microstoria work e.g. Ginzburg, Muir, Levi. Assertion of the reality of general terms or laws. Meaning is oriented toward the future. Names are intended to show the nature of things. Learning from the past in view of future action.
Narrative is subjective account reified as objective knowledge.
Narratives are acts of sensemaking. Explore relative differences in narrative social construction. There is no outside to inside text duality or originary narrative. Grand narratives dominate local knowledge. But there can be local resistance to grand knowledge narratives.