SOC450L - Qualitative Social Research Methods

3 Credit(s)

Liberal Arts
This course introduces qualitative research methods in the context of students’ carrying out a field study to the point of a working document. Issues of access to community settings, subject selection, participant observation, interviewing, use of personal documents, research ethics, recording and analysis of data, as well as how we know the social world, are fully considered. Critical ethnography, a new field method focused on the relationship between social institutional constraints and human agency, is also introduced.

Prerequisite(s): SOC 101L