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Methods of Inquiry and Theories of Research

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

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Thursday, Nov 30) Monday Coding Assignment 7: coding

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

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Read: Buckser, Gershon, Johnson-Hanks Friday Dec 15th 10-12 Feedback on assignment 1 Planning research Read: everyone else’s assignments 51 Monday Dec 18th Feedback on assignment 5

13-15 Wrapping up questionnaires Read: everyone else’s assignments Wednesd ay Dec 20 10-12 Wrapping up the course 2 Monday Jan 8th Submission for examination Due: All course 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.