Thinking Interpretivly
| Wednesday, January 3 | |||
| No Meeting this week. | |||
| Wednesday, January 10 | |||
| Reading: | 1. | Burrell & Morgan. Sociological Paradigms and Organizational Analysis - Part I | |
| 2. | Weber. The Rhetoric of Positivism Versus Interpretivism: A Personal View from MISQ. | ||
| 3. | Suddaby. From the Editors: What Grounded Theory is Not from AMJ. | ||
Engaging the Field
| Wednesday, January 17 | |||
| Reading: | 1. | Strauss & Corbin. Basics of Qualitative Research. Part 1 - Basic Considerations, pp 17-56. | |
| 2. | Fetterman. Ethnography. Chapter 3 - Wilderness Guide: Methods and Techniques, pp 31-62. | ||
| 3. | McCracken. The Long Interview. Chapter 3 - The Four Step Method of Inquiry, pp 29-48. | ||
| Activity: | Research questions for the domestic environment | ||
| Assignment: | Interviewing | ||
| Wednesday, January 24 | |||
| Reading: | 1. | Emmerson, Fretz & Shaw. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes. Chapter 1 - Fieldnotes in Ethnographic Research, pp 1-16. | |
| 2. | Emmerson, Fretz & Shaw. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes. Chapter 2 - In the Field: Participating, Observing, and Jotting Notes, pp 17-38. | ||
| Activity: | Working with interviews | ||
| Assignment: | Making observations | ||
| Wednesday, January 31 | |||
| Reading: | 1. | Rose. Visual Methodologies. Chapter 1 - Researching Visual Materials, pp 5-32. | |
| 2. | Ball & Smith. Analyzing Visual Data. pp 1-70 | ||
| Activity: | Working with observations | ||
| Assignment: | Transcribing | ||
Analyzing Data
| Wednesday, February 7 | |||
| Reading: | 1. | Strauss & Corbin. Basics of Qualitative Research. Chapters 5-7, pp 57-115. | |
| Example: | Daly. Deconstructing Family Time: From Ideology to Lived Experience. Journal of Marriage and Family, 63, 2, 283-294. | ||
| Activity: | Open Coding | ||
| Assignment: | Axial Coding | ||
| Wednesday, February 14 | |||
| Reading: | 1. | Emmerson, Fretz & Shaw. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes. Chapter 3 - Writing up Field Notes I: From Field to Desk, pp 39-65. | |
| 2. | Emmerson, Fretz & Shaw. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes. Chapter 4 - Writing up Field Notes II: Creating Scenes on the Page, pp 66-107. | ||
| Activity: | Analyzing other data | ||
| Assignment: | Creating Scenes | ||
| Wednesday, February 21 | |||
| Reading: | 1. | Strauss & Corbin. Basics of Qualitative Research. Chapters 8-9, pp 116-157. | |
| 2. | Strauss & Corbin. Basics of Qualitative Research. Chapter 12 - Memos and Diagrams, pp 197-223. | ||
| Example: | Grinter, Rebecca E., W. Keith Edwards, Mark W. Newman and Nicholas Ducheneaut. The Work to Make a Home Network Work. Proceedings of the Ninth European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW'05), 469-488. | ||
| Activity: | TBD | ||
| Assignment: | TBD | ||
Writing Up
| Wednesday, February 28 | |||
| Reading: | 1. | Strauss & Corbin. Basics of Qualitative Research. Chapters 13-14, pp 224-258. | |
| 2. | Fetterman. Ethnography. Chapter 6 - Recording the Miracle: Writing, pp 111-128. | ||
Reflecting on Qualitative Methods
| Wednesday, March 7 | |||
| Reading: | 1. | Kirk & Miller. Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Research. | |
| 2. | Stewart. The Ethnographer's Method. Chapter 3 - Working Toward Veracity, pp 18-29. | ||
| 3. | Stewart. The Ethnographer's Method. Chapter 4 - Working Toward Objectivity, pp 29-47. | ||