Syllabus

In addition to the syllabus listed below, each student freely chooses 300 pages that are relevant to their project proposal. The list of the chosen readings should be included in the final submission of the project proposal 20 January 2015.

Books

  • Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G Colomb, and Joseph Williams (2008) The Craft of Research. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
  • Moses, Jonathon W. and Torbj?rn L. Knutsen  (2007) Ways of Knowing: Competing Methodologies in Social and Political Research. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Stuart, Alex (1998) The Ethnographer's Method. London: Sage.

Compendium

The following articles is available in two compendiums that you can buy in the Kopiutsalg at Akademika bookshop, Blindern. Bring Your Student ID Card.

  • Bertaux, Daniel (1981) “From the Life-History Approach to the Transformation of Sociological Practice”, in Biography and Society: The Life History Approach in the Social Sciences. London: Sage, pp. 29-45.
  • Brockinton, Dan and Sullivan, Sian “Qualitative Research” in Scheyvens, Regina and Donovan Storey (2003) Development Fieldwork. London: Sage.
  • Bruner, Jeremy  1990 “Acts of Meaning”, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, pp. 1-32
  • Bryman, Alan (2008). “Research Designs”+ “Sampling” + Asking Questions” + “Quantitative Data Analysis,” in Social Research Methods. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 29-64 + 164-190 + 230-252 + 313-338. (Chapters 2, 7, 10, 14).
  • Field, Andy (2005) “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Statistics (Well, Sort of),” in Discovering Statistics Using SPSS. London: Sage, pp.  1-36.
  • Fludernik, Monika (2009) An Introduction to Narratology. Routledge: London and New York, pp. 1-20
  • Foss, Sonja K. (1996), “Rhetorical Criticism: Exploration and Practice”, Long Grove: Waveland Press, pp. 3-33, 63-7, 121-32, 165-74, 225-37, 291-299, 357-67, 399-408, 455-63 and 483-88.
  • Geertz, Clifford (1973) “Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture”and “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight, ” in The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books, pp. 3-32 + 412-453.
  • Lothe, Jacob. 2005. Narrative in Fiction and Film: An Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 11-48.
  • Lotman, Yuri (1990) “Semiotic Space” + “The Notion of Boundary,” in Universe of the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture. New York: I.B.Tauris & Co., pp. 123-142.
  • Overton, John and van Diermen, Peter  “Using Quantitative Techniques” in Scheyvens, Regina and Donovan Storey (2003) Development Fieldwork. London: Sage.
  • Winther, Tanja (2008) “Introduction,” in The Impact of Electricity: Development, Desires and Dilemmas. Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 1-21

Online articles

You must be logged on via the University of Oslo server in order to access the following articles. If you are off campus, please read how to log on here. The articles will also be available as pdf. files in Fronter shortly before the commencement of the course.

Published June 5, 2014 10:12 AM - Last modified Feb. 20, 2015 9:59 PM