Benjamin Waddell
Professor of Sociology
Ethnography and Writing
- Week 1: Creating a Writing Community
- Week 2: Intersection of Biography and Society
- Evicted, 315-336
- Evicted, 44-94.
- Albuquerque Bus Stops (read 1 entry)
- Prezi, Module 2
- Week 3: Getting into “The Field”
- Read Selecting a field site and Field Site Access
- Read Framing Ethical Research
- Evicted, 94-144.
- Prezi, Module 3
- Week 4: Listening, Observing, Participating
- Read Writing Fieldnotes
- Read Review of Goffman article
- Read A Word on Alice Goffman and Ethics in Field Research
- Evicted, 144-197.
- Week 5: Semi-directed interviews
- 5 Tips for Conducting an Interview with Someone you Care About.
- Waddell, A Cautionary Tale
- Semi-directed interview protocol (Alfonso Abeyta, example)
- Notes from the Interview, Alfonso and Martha Abeyta
- Explore storycorps.org and download the app on your phone!
- Evicted, 197-242.
- Prezi: Module 5
- Week 6: Research and Writing Resources
- Library Research Skills, Reed Library 131 (computer lab)
- Research day (conduct interviews)
- Week 7: Initial Hunches, Emerging Themes
- Read “Techniques to Identify Themes”
- Evicted, 242-313.
- Prezi: Module 7
- Week 8: Arts-Based Research (ABR)
- Watch: Jordan, Chris. “Turning Powerful Stats into Art.”
- Germano, “Analytic Filmmaking.”
- Gang Leader for a Day, Ch 1, 1-27
- Prezi: Module 8
- Week 9: Data Analysis
- Read Connecting data, theory, and secondary sources
- Gang Leader for a Day, Ch 2, 27-67
- Week 10: The Writing Process
- Gang Leader for a Day, Ch 3, 67-113
- Week 11: Alternative Voices
- Read Undergraduate Ethnography
- Gang Leader for a Day, Ch 4 & 5, 113-185
- Week 12: Findings, Significance, Relevance
- Read The Writing Process
- Gang Leader for a Day, Ch 6, 7, & 8, 185-285
- Week 13: Break
- Work on essay and presentation
- Week 14
- Week 15
- Week 16: Final Exams
- 900-word essay due
Ethnography and Writing Assignment Breakdown
- Participation (40%)
- Final Essay and Field Journal (30%)
- Final Presentation (15%)
- Final Exam (15%)