1. Qualitative Research Methods Deborah Landry, PhD

2. Today Outline Course Objectives Introductions Syllabus Course Assignments Outline Course Objectives Introductions Syllabus Course Assignments

3. About this course... Different than other CRM course – Creating Knowledge! Early Engagement Different than other CRM course – Creating Knowledge! Early Engagement

4. About this course.... Cumulative project Pedagogy (Mills) – Learning is a social activity – Knowledge production is embedded in culture – Praxis & Deep learning

5. About me… Culture & Crime Ethnographic Research – Municipal legislation Graffiti Busking

7. Syllabus: Course Evaluation 10% Research Question & Data [SOLO] 10% Ethnographic Group Work 20% Literature Review [SOLO] 20% Data Analysis 10% Presentation: in class Weeks 11 & 12 30% Final Paper Due during exam period

8. Your Research Project Based on YOUR empirical research – Field Research OR – Cultural Text Group projects MAY consider doing either or both FIRST you need a research focus! Not positivistic (cause → effect) So what is Qualitative Research about?

10. Qualitative Research Interpretism – Social Constructionist – 1960s Challenge to Positivist Thought Theoretical Threads: Symbolic Interactionism Critical Theory Feminism Queer Theory Postmodern /Post-structural Cultural/Communication

11. Qualitative Underpinnings Meaningful Data collection: flexible and sensitive to political, cultural, historical personal context Explanation & arguments involve: Detail Contextual understandings “Thick Description” NOT statistical (but maybe some quantification)

12. The Research Process: The Researcher Reflexivity Socially situated Confronts the ethics and politics of research How you ask a question, frames your research… OR Your epistemology frames what you question…

13. The Research Process: Art & Politics Writer as interpreter – CW Mills article… – From field notes to public texts Community (Situated Context) – Peer Review Journals – Conferences – Collaboration