qualitative research methods deborah landry, phd
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Qualitative Research MethodsQualitative Research MethodsDeborah Landry, PhDDeborah Landry, PhD
Today
• Outline Course Objectives• Introductions• Syllabus• Course Assignments
• Outline Course Objectives• Introductions• Syllabus• Course Assignments
About this course...
• Different than other CRM course– Creating Knowledge!
• Early Engagement
About this course....
• Cumulative project
• Pedagogy (Mills)– Learning is a social
activity– Knowledge production
is embedded in culture– Praxis & Deep learning
About me…
• Culture & Crime• Ethnographic Research– Municipal legislation• Graffiti• Busking
Syllabus: Course Evaluation10% Research Question & Data [SOLO]
10% Ethnographic Group Work
20% Literature Review [SOLO]
20% Data Analysis
10% Presentation: in class Weeks 11 & 12 30% Final Paper Due during exam period
Your Research Project
Based on YOUR empirical research– Field Research OR– Cultural Text
Group projects MAY consider doing either or both
FIRST you need a research focus!• Not positivistic (cause → effect)
So what is Qualitative Research about?
Qualitative ResearchInterpretism– Social Constructionist– 1960s Challenge to
Positivist Thought
Theoretical Threads:Symbolic InteractionismCritical Theory
•Feminism•Queer Theory•Postmodern /Post-structural•Cultural/Communication
Qualitative Underpinnings
Meaningful Data collection: flexible and sensitive to political, cultural, historical personal context
Explanation & arguments involve:• Detail• Contextual understandings• “Thick Description”• NOT statistical (but maybe some
quantification)
The Research Process: The Researcher
Reflexivity• Socially situated• Confronts the ethics and
politics of research
How you ask a question, frames your research…
ORYour epistemology frames what
you question…
The Research Process: Art & Politics
Writer as interpreter – CW Mills article…– From field notes to public texts
Community• (Situated Context)– Peer Review Journals– Conferences– Collaboration