Fall 2015  |  SOC 8890 Section 001: Advanced Topics in Research Methods -- Ethnography (20668)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/08/2015 - 12/16/2015
Thu 02:30PM - 05:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Social Sciences Building 1114
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Course Catalog Description:
Advanced Research Methods (e.g., multilevel models), historical/comparative, field, survey research. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: Soc Grad Student whose completed 8801 and 8811 or instr consent. Cr will not be granted if cr has been received for the same topics title
Class Notes:
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Class Description:
Students taking this class will gain a good grasp of the theory and practice of ethnography, by reading and digesting some exemplary ethnographic work and by undertaking their own fieldwork projects. Students will learn how to generate field notes that shuttle between rich description and coherent, flexible analysis. In-depth class discussions of their own and each other's work will develop the always-tricky skill of "operationalization," that is, the transformation of social theories into workable hypotheses for the field. We will employ both the readings and student work to explore various ways that ethnographers can transcend the small scale of their research to make significant claims about the social world. Along the way we will encounter and process some of the thorny ethical, epistemological, and political questions and dilemmas which are inevitably produced by the intimate relationship between ethnographer and informant. This practicum can work well for students at different stages of their research processs. It will provide an intensive and hands-on introduction to ethnographic methodology, but it can equally work well as a springboard into PhD research.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/20668/1159
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
18 March 2010

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