For further details about what ‘Grounded Theory’ is exactly read http://www.ualberta.ca/~iiqm/backissues/1_2Final/pdf/glaser.pdf.
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Questions about bias are raised every year in INFO 272. I wrote these notes a few years back which I think offer a useful summary of how we can think about and manage these issues in qualitative, field-based research.
If you haven’t already, please send me your full field notes (not the 1-page analysis, just the notes)…anything you aren’t comfortable sharing you can edit out. I’ll put them up on the course website for reference. They will go into a password protected ‘workshop’ section of the website.
For yet another example of subjectivity in social analysis, see I-School PhD grad Daniela Rosner’s CSCW paper titled, The Material Practices of Collaboration. In this article she explores the nature of craftmaking and tacit and embodied knowledge through an apprenticeship at a bookbindery.
If you were on the wait list, as of today (9/9) you are now formally and officially enrolled in the class.
…back to normal. Tuesdays 3-5pm.
…are switched to Thursday. If you’d like to speak with me, come by my office between 3pm and 5pm. I’ll resume office hours on Tuesdays (3-5pm), starting next week.
Bring your copy of the Becker reading, ‘the Epistemology of Qualitative Research’ to class. If you didn’t get a copy in class it is available here.
Please also read Creswell, ‘Research Design: qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches‘ (also handed out in class)
and my 1-page notes on Habermas, Knowledge and Human Interests.