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Participant Observation Workshop Dates: February 29, 2008 (3-6pm) and March 1, 2008 (9:30am-12:30pm) Instructor: Martín Sánchez-Jankowski Information: The Center for Urban Ethnography at Berkeley is offering a workshop on techniques of participant observation that will be run by the center’s director, Professor Martín Sánchez-Jankowski. The workshop will be presented from a classic social science perspective. Topics will include techniques in research design development, sampling/site selection, data gathering, and analysis. Participants should be graduate students or other researchers interested in conducting participant observation themselves, willing to purchase a reader from a local copy store, and able to attend all sessions. Undergraduates are not eligible for the workshop.There is a limit of twenty people, and positions will be assigned on a first come, first serve basis. Preliminary Readings for the Workshop: Qualitative Data Analysis Software Review
In-Depth Interviewing Workshop Dates: March 21, 2008 (11am-2pm) and March 22 (10am-1pm) Instructor: Sandra Smith Information: It is said that about 90% of social science research involves interviewingof one sort or another. This workshop is designed to familiarize students with the particulars associated with employing interviewing as a research methodology. The workshop is structured around eight steps or stages of the “interviewing process.” These include proposing a research question; providing a rationale for using interviewing as a research methodology; sampling and recruiting; developing effective interview questions (and avoiding ineffective ones!); considering issues in interviewing; interviewing itself; analyzing interview data; and writing up results. By the end of the workshop, students should have gained at least basic proficiency in their ability to undertake a well-grounded interview-based research project on their own. Preliminary readings: Selected Chapters from the following: Robert Weiss, Learning from Strangers: The Art of Method of Qualitative Interview Studies. New York: The Free Press. Practical Qualitative Data Analysis using Atlas Ti Dates: April 18, 2008 12-4pm Instructor: Corey Abramson Information: On Friday April 18th, the Center for Urban Ethnography will be holding a mini-seminar on Practical Qualitative Data Analysis using Atlas Ti lead by Corey Abramson (CUE’s daily operations manager). The seminar will take place from 12-4pm in the Survey Research Center conference room. By the end of the seminar, participants will have a functional working knowledge of Atlas. The seminar will cover a range of topics including the logic of the Atlas Ti platform, how to perform the fundamentals of computer aided qualitative data analysis in Atlas (entering data, structuring data, coding data, and retrieving data), and specific strategies for dealing with different types of data including ethnographic field notes, in-depth interviews, and documents. The seminar will also discuss some of Atlas’ unique features such as code networks and “super-codes.” Quantitative content analysis will NOT be covered. *Those interested in attending must own Atlas and have data to work with. Priority will be given to those who have attended other CUE workshops.
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Race and Ethnicity Workshop Instructor: Faculty TBA Information: The Center for Urban Ethnography at Berkeley is offering a workshop on Race and Ethnicity run by several members of the CUE faculty. There is a limit of twenty people, and positions will be assigned on a first come, first serve basis. More details TBA. Preliminary Readings for the Workshop: TBA Three Seminars on the Extended Case Method Dates: October 26, 27, 28 3-6p.m. 402 Barrows Instructor: Michael Burawoy Information:
The three seminars proceed in order of complexity. The first
deals with a single case, the second with two cases, and the third
with multiple cases. I illustrate the method with three examples
of my own research conducted in Africa, US, Hungary and Russia.
The seminars will be based on the following three articles that
will be made available. Seminars: October 26: The Extended Case Method (based on a study of race and class in postcolonial Africa) October 27: Ethnographic Revisits (based on a study of industrial work in South Chicago with illustrations from many other studies) October 28: Multi-Case Ethnography (based on series of studies of socialism and its transition to capitalism in Hungary and Russia)
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