Soc3322a Seminar Topics and Assigned
September 14: Introduction to the course.
September 16: What is Qualitative Research
Methodology?
Required
1) Berg, Chapter 1
September
21: What is Community-Based Research?
Required
1) “Origins and Principles of Community-Based
Research” (from Community Based Research: Practices and Principles, Strand et
al., 2003) on Reserve in
September 23: Designing Qualitative Research Part 1
(General)
Required
1) Berg, Chapter 2
2) Leedy and Ormrod, “Practical Research Planning
and Design”, Chapter 3 – 5 on Reserve at the Brescia
Library (Note: these readings are to be used as a resource for your
mini-assignments and your research proposals. They will not be on the final
exam.)
September 28: Designing
Qualitative Research Part 2
(Community Focus)
Required
1) “Forging a Collaborative Research Strategy” (from The Company of Neighbours, Banks
and Mangan, 1999) on Reserve at the
September 30: Feminist Methodology
Required
1) “ Introduction” (from
Feminist Methods in Social Research, Reinharz, 1992),
on Reserve in
October 5: Ethical
Issues in Research
1) Berg, Chapter 3
October 7: Interviewing and Focus Groups
Required
1) Berg, Chapter 4 and 5
October 12: Thanksgiving
(no class)
October 14: Doing
Interviews using Feminist Methods and A Few More Points re Interviews
Required
1) “Feminist Interview Research” (from Feminist
Methods in Social Research, Reinharz, 1992), on
Reserve in
October 19/21: Ethnographic Research
Required
1) Berg, Chapter 6
October 26/28: Participatory-Action
Research
Required
1) Berg, Chapter 7
2) “Action Research Cases from Practice I” (from
Introduction to Action Research,
November 2/4: Other Qualitative Methodologies
Required
1) Berg, Chapter 8, 9, and 10
November 9/11: Social
Program Evaluation
Required
1) “Understanding Social Programs through Evaluation”
(by J. C. Greene
in the Handbook of Qualitative Research, 2000), on Reserve in
2) “Toward a New Definition of Accountability” (by C.
Mobley in Journal
of Contemporary Ethnography.1997;
26: 75-97), on Reserve in
November 16/18: Community
Health Assessment & Evaluation
Required
1) “Participatory Evaluation: Building Community while
Assessing Change” (in Community Organizing and
2) “Community Health Assessment or Healthy Community
Assessment” (in Community Organizing and
(*see also Google Books limited
preview of the above book)
November 23/25: How
to Collect and Analyze Data
Required
“Data Collection” (in Qualitative Inquiry and Research
Design by Creswell, 1998) , on Reserve at the
November 30/December 2/4: Presentations and Feedback
See presentation schedule online
at http://publish.uwo.ca/~pakvis/.
Required
1) Berg, Chapter 12
2) Leedy and Ormrod, “Practical Research Planning
and Design”, Chapter 6 and 12 on Reserve in Brescia
Library (*Note: this reading and the Berg Ch. 12 reading above are to be used
as a resource for your research proposals. They will not be on the final exam.)