Methodology of Social Sciences 3102-MMNS
The topics will include:
- formulation of research problems, as it determine methodology;
- status of diverse sources in contemporary ethnography;
- status of the declaration of the people researched;
- relationship between the non-discoursive character of ethnographic fieldwork and the athropological text;
- methodological individualism vs. holism;
- researcher's identity as a determinant of anthroplogical reflection;
- descrepancies of outcom in ethnographic research;
- valuation and judgments in anthropology - the limits of engagement;
- the potentiality of comparative reflection in anthropology;
- methodological anarchism: Paul Feyerabend.
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Assessment criteria
attendance, participation in discussions, written exam
Bibliography
Bochner A. P.
2002 Criteria against ourselves, [w:] The Qualitative Inquiry Reader, Norman K. Denzin, Yvonna S. Lincoln (eds.), Thousand Oaks, s. 257-265.
Bryman A.
2001 The Mead/Freeman Controversy: Some Implications for Qualitative Researchers, [w:] Alan Bryman (ed.), Ethnography, Vol. III, London, s. 409-428.
Callaway H.
1995 Ethnography and experience. Gender implications in fieldwork and texts, [w:] Judith Okely, Helen Callaway (eds.), Anthropology and Autobiography, London.
Cohen A.P.
1995 Self-conscious anthropology, [w] Judith Okely, Helen Callaway (eds.), Anthropology and Autobiography, London, s. 221-241.
D'Andrade R.
1995 Moral Models in Anthropology, “Current Anthropology”, Vol. 36, No. 3, s. 399-408.
Feyerabend P.K.
1996 Przeciw metodzie, Wrocław, s. 18-41, 218-251.
Geertz C.
1961 Studies in Peasant Life: Community and Society, “Biennial Review of Anthropology”, vol. 2, pp 1-41.
Gingrich A.
2002 When ethnic majorities are „dethroned”. Towards a methodology of self-reflexive, controlled macrocomparison, [w:] Anthropology, by Comparison, Andre Gingrich, Richard G. Fox (eds.), London, s. 225-248.
Hastrup K.
2008 Droga do antropologii. Między doświadczeniem a teorią, Kraków.
Kvale S.
2002 The Social Construction of Validity, [w:] The Qualitative Inquiry Reader, Norman K. Denzin, Yvonna S. Lincoln (eds.), Thousand Oaks, s. 299-325.
Rapport N., Overing J.
2000 Social and Cultural Anthropology. The Key Concepts, New York, s. 141-153, 245-257.
Russell Bernard H.
1995 Research Methods in Anthropology, Walnut Creek, s. 23-43.
Scheper-Hughes N.
1995 The Primacy of the Ethical Propositions for a Militant Anthropology, “Current Anthropology”, Vol. 36, No. 3, 409-440.
Sokal A., Bricmont J.
2005 Modne bzdury. O nadużywaniu pojęć z zakresu nauk ścisłych przez postmodernistycznych intelektualistów, Warszawa, s. 59-109, 132-151.
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