CRIM 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Problem Solving, Autoethnography, Focus Group
15 Apr 2016
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Week 12 focus groups, historiography, oral history, autoethnography & paricipant acion. Focus group interviews: target purposive sample of informants" brought together to discuss phenomenon, can provide insighful informaion to exploratory researcher. Follow up ater iniial research completed: may foster new insight & sense of community for respondents. Limits to focus group interviews: diicult for some don"t want to speak in front of others, must ensure all groups members paricipate. Oten a few talkers dominate conversaion: must provide safe & trustworthy space (esp. with sensiive or illegal topics, researcher role to referee process. Allows to disinguish between passive & acive approaches to history: times lines passive approach, historiography & oral histories acive approaches. Systemaically recapture nuances, people, events & meanings of past & examine how shape present. Study relaionships & issues that inluenced past, coninue to inluence present, & Historiography will afect future: data sources historical archives, documents, & data.
