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Workshop 1: Ethnographic Research Methods

Begins
 5 Apr 2008 - 10:30am
Ends
 5 Apr 2008 - 3:00pm
Location
65 W 11th St., Room 259
The workshop aims to bring students through a mock process of fieldwork where students start with a research question and design a corresponding fieldwork strategy. It is an introduction to ethnography as an exercise in research design and problem solving. The session starts with a lecture on grounded theory and a fieldwork overview. Content will primarily concern interviewing and participant observation. Interviewing includes formulating questions, types of interviews, conducting inquiries and the use of interview guides. Participant observation instruction will review implementation and journal keeping. Students are asked to brainstorm other research methods they can triangulate together to produce corroborated evidence to answer their research question.

Reading:
Ervin, Alexander M. 2000. "Ethnography: Participant Observation and Key-Informant Interviewing," Applied Anthropology: Tools and Perspectives for Contemporary Practice. MA: Allyn and Bacon. Pp. 141-155.

Part of the Spring Research Methods Workshops.

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