Dottorato di ricerca in
Urbeur, Metodologia della ricerca sociale e sociologia applicata
XXVIII ciclo
Lezioni di Etnografia-fieldwork e ricerca qualitativa
20 marzo – 17 aprile 2014
Introductive and general references
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Becker H., 2007, I trucchi del mestiere. Come fare ricerca sociale. Bologna: Il Mulino.
Tricks of the Trade. How to Think about Your Research While You’re Doing It, 1998, C.U.P.
(foreward at http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/041247.html)
Cardano M., 2011, La ricerca qualitativa, Bologna: Il Mulino.
Marzano M., 2006, Etnografia e ricerca sociale, Roma-Bari: Laterza.
Emerson R.M. (ed.), 2001, Contemporary Field Research. Perspectives and Formulations.
Long Grove, Illinois: Waveland Press
Atkinson P.A. et al. (eds.), 2007, Handbook of Ethnography, London: Sage.
Lezione 1, 20 marzo (10.00-12.00)
Gianmarco Navarini gianmarco.navarini@unimib.it
Introductory lecture: Ethnography, participant observation, fieldwork
Preliminary definitions. Being there. The study of processes, the focus on “how” (something is going on). Familiar and
unfamiliar contexts. “Objects” of research, research questions. A preliminary question-work for the phenomenology of
observation.
Exercise 1: “What’s going on”, here and now.
References:
- Goffman E., 1986, “Introduction”, in Frame Analysis. Northeastern U.P., pp. 1-20.
- Deegan M.J., 2007, “The Chicago School of Ethnography”, in Atkinson P.A. et al. (eds.),
Handbook of Ethnography, London: Sage, pp. 9-24.
- Rock P., 2007, “Symbolic Interactionism and Ethnography”, in Atkinson P.A. et al. (eds.),
Handbook of Ethnography, London: Sage, pp. 28-38.
Lezione 2, 27 marzo (10.00-12.00)
Diego Coletto diego.coletto@unimib.it
Inside participant observation: problems and research topics
Exercise 2: Being there, field access, negotiation, participation.
References:
- Emerson R.M., 2001, “Fieldwork Practice: Issues in Participant Observation”, in Emerson
R.M. (ed.), Contemporary Field Research. Perspectives and Formulations, Long Grove,
Illinois: Waveland Press, pp. 113-151.
- Goffman E., 1989, “On fieldwork”, in Emerson R.M. (ed.), Contemporary Field Research.
Perspectives and Formulations, Long Grove, Illinois: Waveland Press, pp. 153-158.
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Duneier M., 1994, “On the Evolution of Sidewalk”, in Emerson R.M. (ed.), Contemporary
Field Research. Perspectives and Formulations, Long Grove, Illinois: Waveland Press, pp.
167-187.
Lezione 3, 1 Aprile (14.30-16.30)
Diego Coletto
Practices of participant observation
Lezione 4, 3 aprile (10.30-13.30)
Simone Ghezzi
Fieldnotes: annotation, description and writing while observing.
Description and interpretation: the interpretive approach.
References:
- Sanjek R., 1990, “A Vocabulary for Fieldnotes”, in Saniek, R. (ed.) Fieldnotes.The making
of Anthropology, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, pp.92-121.
- Emerson R.M., Fretz R., Shaw L., 1995, “Fieldnotes in Ethnographic Research”, in Emerson
R.M., Fretz R., Shaw L., Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, pp.1-32.
- Peacock J.L., 2002, “Method”, in Peacock J.K., The Anthropological Lens. Harsh Light, Soft
Focus, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 85-112.
- Geertz C., 1973, “Thick Description. Toward an interpretive Theory of Culture”, in The
Interpretation of Cultures. Selected Essays.
Lezione 5, 10 aprile (9.30-12.30)
Fabio Quassoli
“Common sense”: a problem, a resource or an object?
Exercise 3: Questions about thick description
References (texts must be read in advance):
- Emerson R.M., Pollner M., 2007, “Ethnomethodology and Ethnography”, in Atkinson P.A.
et al. (eds.), Handbook of Ethnography, London: Sage (pp. 118-135)
- Charmaz K., Mitchell R.G., 2007, “Grounded Theory in Ethnography”, in Atkinson P.A. et
al. (eds.), Handbook of Ethnography, London: Sage (pp. 160-174)
Lezione 6, 17 aprile (10.00-12.00)
Gianmarco Navarini, Enzo Colombo
Research design: tales of a research
Exercise 4.
References
Colombo E., Navarini G., 1999, Confini dentro la città. Antropologia della Stazione Centrale di
Milano, Milano, Guerini
Lezione 7, TBA
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Gianmarco Navarini
Theoretical issues, research perspectives, theory building
Presentation & Discussion Exercise 4
This lesson is done entirely by the participants, which are invited to present and discuss this reading
(of course to be read in advance):
Turnbull S., 2002, “Social Constructionist Research and Theory Building”, Advances in Developing
Human Resources, 4: 317-334.
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