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| Topics appropriate for field research |
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| Issues related to role of the observer |
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| Issues related to relationship of the observer to the observed |
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| The problem that the subjects of social research may react to the fact of being studied, thus altering their behavior from what it would have been normally. |
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Jottings
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Reconstruction
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A report on social life that focuses
on detailed and accurate description rather than explanation. |
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The in-depth examination of a single
instance of some social phenomenon, such as a village, a family, or a juvenile gang. |
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A technique developed by
Michael Burawoy in which case study observations are used to discover flaws in and to improve existing social theories. |
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| Institutional Ethnography |
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A research technique
in which the personal experiences of individuals
are used to reveal power relationships and other
characteristics of the institutions within which they
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| Participatory Action Research |
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An approach
to social research in which the people being
studied are given control over the purpose and procedures
of the research; intended as a counter to the
implicit view that researchers are superior to those
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An open and trusting relationship; especially
important in qualitative research between
researchers and the people they’re observing. |
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| Qualitative Interviewing (especially from lecture) |
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Contrasting with Surveys
Guiding questions
Allowing for tangents
Last question: anything we haven't talked about that you would like to discuss? |
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| Issues with recording interviews |
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| Manifest v. Latent Content |
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| Discourse Analysis (basic definitions) |
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| Issues related to variation |
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Problems with using existing statistics
- Merging
- With data collection |
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| Conversation Analysis (purpose and how-to) |
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An inductive approach to the
study of social life that attempts to generate a theory
from the constant comparing of unfolding observations.
This is very different from hypothesis testing,
in which theory is used to generate hypotheses to be tested through observations. |
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| Its relation to constant comparison |
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- Why do it?
- Open v. Axial v. selective |
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