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=== Week 5: April 29 — Method & Warrant === * [[Practice_of_scholarship_(Spring_2019)/week 5 session plan|Session plan]] '''Reading:''' * Benzecry, Claudio. 2009. [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11133-009-9123-7 Becoming a fan: On the seductions of opera]. ''Qualitative Sociology'', 32(2), 131-151. * Hecht, Brent, and Darren Gergle. 2010. [https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1753370 The tower of babel meets web 2.0: User-generated content and its applications in a multilingual context]. ''Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)''. * Katz, Jack. 1997. [https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124197025004002 Ethnography’s Warrants]. ''Sociological Methods & Research'', 25(4), 391–423. * '''Strongly recommended:''' Booth et al., Chapter 9 ("Reasons and Evidence"). * '''Optional:''' Small, Mario Luis. 2009. [http://eth.sagepub.com/content/10/1/5.short How many cases do I need? On science and the logic of case selection in field-based research]." ''Ethnography (10)'':1, 5-38. '''Assignment:''' * Write up the methodological approach you (plan to) pursue in your project and your justification for the approach. Make sure to restate your research question and explain why the data/evidence you (will) collect and the method(s) of analysis you (will) use provide insight into the problem you are addressing. Make sure that your argument will convince a skeptical reader that your approach is sensible, well-thought through, and compelling (500-800 words) Post to the [https://canvas.northwestern.edu/courses/36533/discussion_topics/236976 discussion page]. * Review a peer's write-up of their methodological approach & justification. Does it make sense? Has the author provided a clear and compelling rationale for the analytical approach they take to their research problem and the data they use? Is there a mismatch between the research questions and the data? Between the methods of analysis and the focus of the inquiry? Be a skeptical (but nonetheless generous) reviewer.
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