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=== Week 4: April 22 β Prior Work: Interrupting a conversation === * [[Practice_of_scholarship_(Spring_2019)/week 4 session plan|session plan]] '''Reading:''' * Becker, Chapter 8 ("Terrorized by the Literature"). * Booth et al., Chapter 6 ("Engaging Sources"). * Becker, Howard. 1953. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2771989.pdf "Becoming a Marihuana User."](pdf) ''American Journal of Sociology'', ''(59)''3: 235-242. (Focus on the first section up through p. 236) * Shaw, Aaron and Eszter Hargittai. 2018. [https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqx003 "The pipeline of online participation inequalities: The case of Wikipedia"]. ''Journal of Communication'', ''(68)''1: 143-168. (Focus on the parts before "Data and methods" on p. 149) * '''Optional:''' Healy, Kieran. 2017. [http://kieranhealy.org/files/papers/fuck-nuance.pdf Fuck Nuance](pdf). ''Sociological Theory'', ''(35)''2: 118-127. '''Assignment:''' * Identify the two or three most important existing theories/findings/systems that your work will test/synthesize/extend/enhance. Briefly (in about 250 words per theory/finding/system!) explain the relevant claims of the prior work, how it connects to your project, and what differentiates your project from it. As usual, post this to [https://canvas.northwestern.edu/ the appropriate "Discussion" page on Canvas]. * Review a peer's posting. For each existing theory/finding/system they discuss, do they provide an effective, compelling rationale that justifies their project in relation to prior work? Are you convinced that they are addressing an important question in their domain of study? * Complete [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfgl4SSyt-BgNAppFp7pJRYAj8aBF6q2ATuaSciqJCnz4cORw/viewform?usp=sf_link mid-quarter course evaluation] (by Friday also).
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