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
You must be logged on via the University of Oslo server in order to access the following articles.
- Aberbach, Joel D. and Bert A. Rockman (2002) “Conducting and Coding Elite Interviews,” in PS: Political Science and Politics, 35(4), pp. 673-676.
- Berry, Jeffrey (2002) “Validity and Reliability Issues in Elite Research,” PS: Political Science and Politics, 35(4), pp. 679-682.
- Charland, Maurice (1987) Constitutive Rhetoric: The Case of the Peuple Quebecois, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Quarterly Journal of Speech, 73(2), pp. 133-150.
- Dexter, Lewis Anthony (2006) “New introduction” + “Chapter 1, Introduction,” in Elites and Specialized Interviewing. Colchester: ECPR Press/Northwestern University, pp. 1-31.
- Kezar, Adrianna (2003) “Transformational Elite Interviews: Principles and Problems,” Qualitative Inquiry, 9, pp. 395-415.
- Law, John (2003) “Making a Mess of Method.” Lancaster: Centre for Science Studies, pp. 1-12.
- L?fgren, Orvar (1990) “The Danger of Knowing What You Are Looking For,” in Ethnologia Scandinavica, 20, pp. 3-15.
- Marcus, George E. (1995) “Ethnography in/of the World System: The Emergence of Multi-Sited Ethnography”, in Annual Review of Anthropology, 24, pp. 95-117.
- Moe, Jannicke et al. (2002) “Density-Dependent Compensation in Blowfly Populations Give Indirectly Positive Effects of a Toxicant,” in Ecology, 83(6), pp. 1597-1603.
- Nesheim, Ingrid et al. (2006) ”What Happens to Traditional Knowledge and Use of Natural Resources When People Migrate?” in Human Ecology, 34(1), pp. 99-131.
- Ortner, Sherry (1973) “On Key Symbols,”in American Anthropologist, 75(5), pp. 1338-1346.
- Peres, C.A. et. al.(2003): “Demographic Threats to the Sustainability of Brazil Nut Exploitation” in Science, 302(5653), pp. 2112-2114.
- Rorty, Richard (1991) “Texts and Lumps,”in New Literary History, 39(1), pp. 53-68.
- Richard, David O. (1996) “Elite Interviewing: Approaches and Pitfalls,” Politics, 16(3), pp. 199-204.
- Spielvogel, Christian (2005) "You Know Where I Stand": Moral Framing of the War on Terrorism and the Iraq War in the 2004 Presidential Campaign, in Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 8(4), pp. 549-569pp. 549-569.
- Syse, Karen (2001) “Ethics in the Woods,” in Ethics, Place & Environment: A Journal of Philosophy & Geography, 4(3), pp. 226-234.
- Wilhite, H., H. Nakagami, T. Masuda, Y. Yamaga and H. Haneda. (1996) “A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Household Energy Use Behaviour in Japan and Norway,” in Energy Policy, 24(9), pp. 795-803.