Lecture topic:Interviewing
Week 5
Lecture topic:Interviewing
This week's lecture presents one of the most perennial methods used in social research: the in-depth interview. This particular lecture will be critical for your completion of Assessment C.
Lecture Slides: TBA
Tutorial topic: Research Design
Required Reading 5: Waller, V, Farquharson, F & Dempsey, D (2015)From Topic to Research DesignDownload From Topic to Research Design (p31-43) inQualitative Social Research: Contemporary Methods for the Digital Age. Sage Publications. Textbook.
Required Reading 6: Ezzy (2010) 'The Research ProcessDownload The Research Process'(p61-88) inSocial Research Methods(ed.) Walter. Oxford.
Additional Resources:
Kirshner (1996) Alfred Hitchcock and the Art of Research.PS: Political Science and Politics29(3):511-513.[link]Download [link]
How to write qualitative research questions - YouTube [HYPERLINK "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dZr9z76_aw" t "_blank"LinkLinks to an external site.]
Week 6
Lecture Topic: Ethnography
This week in lectures we discuss the method of ethnography.
Lecture Slides TBA
Tutorial Topic: Interviewing
Required Reading 7: Way, A, Zwier, R and Tracy, S (2015). 'Dialogic Interviewing and Flickers of Transformation: An Examination and Delineation of Interactional Strategies That Promote Participant Self-ReflexivityDownload Dialogic Interviewing and Flickers of Transformation: An Examination and Delineation of Interactional Strategies That Promote Participant Self-Reflexivity'Qualitative Inquiry21(8): 720-731.
Required Reading 8: Davies (2007) Qualitative Research InterviewingDownload Qualitative Research Interviewing (p151-167) inDoing Successful Research Project Using Qualitative or Quantitative Methods. Palgrave Macmillan.
Additional Resources:
Burrow, R, Scott, R and Courpasson, D. (2022). 'Bloody suffering and durability: How chefs forge embodied identities in elite kitchensDownload Bloody suffering and durability: How chefs forge embodied identities in elite kitchens'Human Relations129
McCorkel, J and Myers, K (2003). 'What Difference Does Difference Make? Position and Privilege in the FieldDownload What Difference Does Difference Make? Position and Privilege in the Field'Qualitative Sociology, 26(2):199-231
Nowak, R and Haynes. J (2018). 'Friendships with benefits? Examining the role of friendship in semi-structured interviews within music researchDownload Friendships with benefits? Examining the role of friendship in semi-structured interviews within music research'International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 21:4, 425-438, DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2018.1431192
Waller, V, Farquharson, F & Dempsey, D (2015) 'Interviewing' (p75-91) inQualitative Social Research: Contemporary Methods for the Digital Age. Sage Publications
What Makes a Good Interview? YouTube Clip [HYPERLINK "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPwO-vOVxD4&feature=youtu.be" t "_blank"linkLinks to an external site.]
An Interview with Mistakes (i.e., what not to do as an interviewer) [HYPERLINK "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4UKwd0KExc" t "_blank"linkLinks to an external site.]
Week 7
Lecture Topic: Focus groups
This week's lecture focuses on the method of focus groups.
Lecture Slides TBA
Tutorial Topic: Ethnography
Required Reading 9: Waller, V, Farquharson, F & Dempsey, D (2015)Observing PeopleDownload Observing People(p109-120) inQualitative Social Research: Contemporary Methods for the Digital Age. Sage Publications- Textbook.
Required Reading 10: Goffman (2009) On the Run: Wanted Men in a Philadelphia GhettoDownload On the Run: Wanted Men in a Philadelphia GhettoAmerican Sociological Review. 27(30): 339-357.
Additional Resources:
Video - Ethnography or observational research [linkLinks to an external site.]
Video - Alice Goffman Public Lecture [linkLinks to an external site.]
Viedo - Excerpt from The Wire - Bubbles Assesses Sydnor [linkLinks to an external site.}
Atkinson (2013) 'Blowing Hot: The Ethnography of Craft and the Craft of EthnographyDownload Blowing Hot: The Ethnography of Craft and the Craft of Ethnography'Qualitative Inquiry19(5) 397404
Calvey, D (2008). 'The Art and Politics of Covert Research: Doing 'Situated Ethics' in the FieldDownload The Art and Politics of Covert Research: Doing 'Situated Ethics' in the Field'.Sociology42(5): 905-918.
Fine, G. (1993) Ten Lies of Ethnography [link]
Jacobson & Kristiansen (2015) 'Goffman's Mixed "Methods"' - Chapter 3 from the 'Social Through of Erving Goffman' (Sage) [Link]
Lewis-Kraus, G (2016)The Trials of Alice GoffmanDownload The Trials of Alice Goffman, New York Times.
Nippert-Eng, C. (2015) Watching Closely A Guide to Ethnographic Observation [link]
