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Methods of Inquiry and Theories of Research Week Date Subject Assignments Place and time 45 Monday Introduction: Ethnographic Assignment 1: Research Nov 6 th fieldwork, emic/etic, ethics, Plan ( due Wednesday December 13 th , Bernard 10-12 qualitative & quantitative research chapter 4, Bryman Read : Professional Stranger, chapters 3-5 may be of chapters 2-5 help with the assignment) Wednesd From the field to the desk: Assignment 2: ay Observation and fieldnotes Observation ( due Nov 8 th Monday, Nov 13 th ) 10-12 Read : Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, chapters 1, 2, 4, 5 (; Bernard chapters 12 and 14) Thursday Interviews Assignment 3: Interview Nov 9 th ( due Thursday, Nov 16 th ) 13-15 Read : Professional Stranger, chapters 6-8, Bernard chapter 8 46 Tuesday Feedback on assignment 2 Assignment 4: scenes Nov 14 ( due Tuesday, Nov 21) 13-15 Creating scenes on paper Read : Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, chapter 3; everyone else’s assignments Friday Feedback on assignment 3 Nov 17 th 10-12 Asking (and answering) questions Read : everyone else’s assignments, Bryman chapter 20 47 Monday Questionnaires Assignment 5: Nov 7 th questionnaire ( due 10-12 Wednesday, Dec 13) Read : Bernard chapter 9, Bryman chapter 10 Wednesd Feedback on assignment 4 Assignment 6: interview ay in connection with Nov 22 Wrapping up observations observation ( due 13-15 Combining material Thursday, Nov 30) Read : everyone else’s assignments, Bryman chapter 20 Monday Coding Assignment 7: coding

48 Nov 27 th ( due Monday, Dec 4) 10-12 Read : Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, chapter 6; Bryman chapters 22 and 24 Wednesd Analyzing and combining ay Nov 29 th 13-15 Read : Bernard chapter 15; Bryman chapters 26 and 27 Friday Feedback on assignment 6 Dec 1 st 10-12 Wrapping up interviews Read : everyone else’s assignments 49 Tuesday Feedback on assignment 7 Dec 5 th 10-12 Wrapping up coding Read : everyone else’s assignments Wednesd Writing ethnographic texts Assignment 8: short ay narrative ( due Monday, Dec 6 th Dec 11) 13-15 Read : Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, chapters 4, 7, 8; Bryman chapter 28 Friday Bringing theory and data together Dec 8 th 10-12 Read : Professional Stranger, chapter 10 50 Tuesday Feedback on assignment 8 Assignment 9: long Dec 12 th narrative ( due Monday, 10-12 Jan 8 th ) Read : everyone else’s assignments Wednesd Writing ethnographic texts: how do ay others do it? Dec 13 th 13-15 Read : Buckser, Gershon, Johnson-Hanks Friday Feedback on assignment 1 Dec 15 th 10-12 Planning research Read : everyone else’s assignments 51 Monday Feedback on assignment 5 Dec 18 th

13-15 Wrapping up questionnaires Read : everyone else’s assignments Wednesd Wrapping up the course ay Dec 20 10-12 2 Monday Submission for examination Due : All course Jan 8 th assignments Readings Agar, Michael H.: 1996 [1980] The Professional Stranger – An Informal Introduction to Ethnography . Academic Press, San Diego. Bernard, Russell H. 2011 Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches. Alta Mira Press. Bryman, Alan 2016 Social Research Methods . Fifth edition. Oxford University Press. Buckser, Andrew: 1999 “Keeping Kosher: Eating and Social Identity among the Jews of Denmark,” Ethnology , Vol. 38, No. 3: 191-209. Emerson, Robert M., Rachel I. Fretz, Linda L. Shaw 2011 Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes . The University of Chicago Press. Gershon, Ilana 2011 “Un-Friend My Heart: Facebook, Promiscuity, and Heartbreak in a Neoliberal Age.” Anthro- pological Quarterly 84(4): 865-894. Johnson-Hanks, Jennifer: 2007 “Women on the market: Marriage, consumption, and the Internet in urban Cameroon,” American Ethnologist Vol. 34, No. 4: 642–658.