SOAN 3070 Lecture : Soan3070 - Post Reading Week.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 3070
• Professor: E.Finnis

Document Summary

Illustrate something: rapport and reciprocity, special functions, close friends, important resources, a way to share research, giving a photo book to the community is something you can do. What"s the point: we organize research to reflect interests/priorities/concerns of research population, can help people share knowledge with each other, not just with the researcher, a lot of participatory theory emerged from development research, need to ask people what development means to them (cid:224) local knowledge/priorities, working with, the priorities, knowledge, voices from below . Sometimes asking about economic status can be uncomfortable so there are other ways of asking: how much do you spend a week on something (rather than asking how much you make, assessing what they have (ex. house size, cars, where they live) (problem with this is you don"t know if they are in dept or have huge savings, asking how they classify themselves.