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 2014.

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.
  • Scheyvens, Regina and Donovan Storey (2003) Development Fieldwork. London: Sage.

Compendium

The following articles is available in two compendiums that you can buy in the Kopiutsalg at Akademika bookshop, Blindern. Bring 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.
  • 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).
  • Eco, Umberto (1986) “Travels in Hyperreality,” in Travels in Hyperreality. Orlando: Harcourt Brace & Co., pp. 1-58.
  • Field, Andy (2005) “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Statistics (Well, Sort of),” in Discovering Statistics Using SPSS. London: Sage, pp.  1-36.
  • Fish, Stanley (1989) “Rhetoric,” in Doing What Comes Naturally. Durham: Duke University Press, pp. 471-502.
  • Fludernik, Monika (2009) An Introduction to Narratology. Routledge: London and New York, pp. 1-20
  • Foss, Sonja K., Karen A. Foss, and Robert Trapp “An Introduction to Rhetoric,” in Contemporary Perspectives on Rhetoric, 3rd edition. Long Grove: Waveland Press, pp. 1-18.
  • Foucault, Michel (1980) “Truth and Power” + “Power and Strategies,” in Power/Knowledge. New York: Pantheon Books, pp. 109-145.
  • 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.
  • Syse, Karen (2004) “Moving About: Qualitative Methodologies of Landscape Research”, in Zoran Roca, Theo Spek, Theano Terkenli, Tobias Plieninger, Franz H?chtl (eds.), European Landscapes and Lifestyles: The Mediterranean and Beyond,  pp. 323-331.
  • Winther, Tanja (2008) “Introduction,” in The Impact of Electricity: Development, Desires and Dilemmas. Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 1-21

Online articles

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