Qualitative & Mixed approaches
Ethnographic research has the unrivaled advantage to offer contextually-rich evidence on social relations. We examine the benefits and limitations of this approach along with its integration to the analysis of an American urban ghetto.
Excerpts from Chronicle of a Summer:
Background readings
Desmond, 2014, TS, “Relational ethnography”
Jerolmack & Khan, 2014, SMR, "Talk is cheap ethnography and the attitudinal fallacy"
Gramain & Weber, 2001, Geneses, "Ethnographie et économétrie: pour une coopération empirique"
Pearce, 2012, ABS, "Mixed methods inquiry in sociology"
Weber, 2001, Ethno, "Settings, interactions and things. A plea for multi-integrative ethnography"
Optional readings
Badger & Bui, 2018, NYT, "In 83 Million Eviction Records, a Sweeping and Intimate New Look at Housing in America"
Creswell, 2007, Ch4, "Five Qualitative Approaches to Inquiry"
Creswell, 2007, Ch11, "Turning the Story and Conclusion"
Creswell & Plano, 2006, Ch4, "Choosing a Mixed Methods Design"
Creswell & Plano, 2006, Ch1, "The Nature of Mixed Methods Research"
Emirbayer, 1997, AJS, "Manifesto for a relational sociology"
Kelle, 2001, FQSR, "Sociological explanations between micro and macro and the integration of qualitative and quantitative methods"
Schwartz, 2011, Ch, "L'empirisme irréductible"
Case-study for reading and commentary
Goffman, 2009, ASR, “On the run: Wanted men in a Philadelphia Ghetto”
Case-studies for presentation