Methodology of Social Sciences 2

obligatory courses

(in Polish) Tytuł licencjata; znajomość języka angielskiego

The course aims to present the fundamental issues concerning the formulation of research questions in anthropology.

The topics will include:

- formulation of research problems, as it determine methodology;

- status of diverse sources in contemporary ethnography;

- status of the declaration of the people researched;

- relationship between the non-discoursive character of ethnographic fieldwork and the athropological text;

- methodological individualism vs. holism;

- researcher's identity as a determinant of anthroplogical reflection;

- descrepancies of outcom in ethnographic research;

- valuation and judgments in anthropology - the limits of engagement;

- the potentiality of comparative reflection in anthropology;

- methodological anarchism: Paul Feyerabend.

Bochner A. P.

2002 Criteria against ourselves, [w:] The Qualitative Inquiry Reader, Norman K. Denzin, Yvonna S. Lincoln (eds.), Thousand Oaks, s. 257-265.

Bryman A.

2001 The Mead/Freeman Controversy: Some Implications for Qualitative Researchers, [w:] Alan Bryman (ed.), Ethnography, Vol. III, London, s. 409-428.

Callaway H.

1995 Ethnography and experience. Gender implications in fieldwork and texts, [w:] Judith Okely, Helen Callaway (eds.), Anthropology and Autobiography, London.

Cohen A.P.

1995 Self-conscious anthropology, [w] Judith Okely, Helen Callaway (eds.), Anthropology and Autobiography, London, s. 221-241.

D'Andrade R.

1995 Moral Models in Anthropology, “Current Anthropology”, Vol. 36, No. 3, s. 399-408.

Feyerabend P.K.

1996 Przeciw metodzie, Wrocław, s. 18-41, 218-251.

Geertz C.

1961 Studies in Peasant Life: Community and Society, “Biennial Review of Anthropology”, vol. 2, pp 1-41.

Gingrich A.

2002 When ethnic majorities are „dethroned”. Towards a methodology of self-reflexive, controlled macrocomparison, [w:] Anthropology, by Comparison, Andre Gingrich, Richard G. Fox (eds.), London, s. 225-248.

Hastrup K.

2008 Droga do antropologii. Między doświadczeniem a teorią, Kraków.

Kvale S.

2002 The Social Construction of Validity, [w:] The Qualitative Inquiry Reader, Norman K. Denzin, Yvonna S. Lincoln (eds.), Thousand Oaks, s. 299-325.

Rapport N., Overing J.

2000 Social and Cultural Anthropology. The Key Concepts, New York, s. 141-153, 245-257.

Russell Bernard H.

1995 Research Methods in Anthropology, Walnut Creek, s. 23-43.

Scheper-Hughes N.

1995 The Primacy of the Ethical Propositions for a Militant Anthropology, “Current Anthropology”, Vol. 36, No. 3, 409-440.

Sokal A., Bricmont J.

2005 Modne bzdury. O nadużywaniu pojęć z zakresu nauk ścisłych przez postmodernistycznych intelektualistów, Warszawa, s. 59-109, 132-151.

attendance, participation in discussions, written exam