Institute of International Management
RA62400 Qualitative Research Methods(質性研究方法)
Fall 2007
The Institute of International Management is dedicated to providing a quality teaching and
research environment to provide students with a broad, integrated knowledge of management
in preparation for successful careers in business, government or academia.
General Program Learning Goals (goals covered by this course are indicated):
1
Graduates should be able to communicate effectively verbally and in writing.
2
Graduates should solve strategic problems with a creative and innovate approach.
3
Graduates should demonstrate leadership skills demanded of a person in authority.
4
Graduates should think with a global management perspective.
5
Graduates should possess the necessary skills and values demanded of a true professional.
Instructor:
Nick Pazderic, Ph.D.
E-mail:
pazderic@mail.cyut.edu.tw
Phone :
2332-3000 (4429)
Course Objectives:
This course promises to acquaint students with elements of both the theory and practice of
ethnographic research. The course will emphasize the practical with the hope that
students can employ these methods as they conduct research necessary for thesis work in
the IMBA program.
Context:
In the social sciences qualitative methods have a time-honored position. Qualitative
methods are especially welcome in studies of communities and societies outside the normal
range of institutional association and influence. Foreign societies, idiosyncratic business
organizations, newly emergent religions, class cultures, schools and subcultures of all kinds
fall within this welcome area of qualitative research. Qualitative research methods
normally involves what is known as participant observation—a form of inquiry in which
the researcher immerses him or herself in another culture for an extended period of time to
gather data for purposes of later formal presentation.
Texts:
Bestor, Theordore C, Patricia G. Steinhoff and Victoria Lyon Bestor, ed. Doing Field
Research in Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003.
Strauss, Anselm and Juliet Corbin, ed. Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and
Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications,
1998.
Grading policy:
Depending on the number of students, four presentations will be given by each student.
Each presentation will count for 1/4 of the course grade. The instructor will provide
substantial coaching to ensure that students are able to perform for excellent results.
However, I the number of students is too high for individual presentations, either group
projects or tests will be administered.
Course Schedule:
September 30
Introductions
October 14Student Presentations of Qualitative Research in their Fields
Part One: Starting Out
October 28 Starting Out, Reading: Doing Fieldwork in Japan 21-108
November 11 Student Presentations of Preliminary Fieldwork
Part Two: Description, Conceptual Ordering, and Theorizing
November 25 Reading: Basics of Qualitative Research 1-241
December 9Student Presentations of Preliminary Fieldnote Organization
Part Three: Practical Ethnography
December 23 : Reading: Doing Fieldwork in Japan 156-247
January 13  Final Student Presentations on the Results of field Projects