2013-2014 Academic Catalog

Nov 23, 2024

2013-2014 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

SOC 204 - Observing Culture and Society

Observation is the basis for social and cultural analysis. What we see-and by extension, what we overlook or choose to ignore-guides our understanding of social life. Fundamental to qualitative research is the systematic collection and analysis of data, from which the researcher develops new concepts and theories about the social world. Any researcher who writes a qualitative study of some aspect of society and culture makes myriad decisions about the phenomena to consider, record, and categorize. This course makes the researcher’s questions and strategies a central focus, asking what the researcher observed and how the researcher collected and used data to develop an analysis. Formally SOC 138