SOCB05H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Participatory Action Research, Sudhir Venkatesh, Grassroots
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Socb05 lecture 9 july 11 2013. * includes notes from guest lecturer salina abji. Deeper understanding of social phenomena: probing social life in its natural habitat, not artificial like experiments are, not armchair philosophy (when you judge something from afar, without context and evaluate it from your own knowledge about things) Good to study social processes over time as they happen, rather than reconstructing them in the future. Rooted in naturalism: observing events and people in a natural setting. Aim for deep understanding of someone"s/community"s way of life. Involve: direct first hand observation, note taking. A case study is a focused, detailed investigation of a single instance of social phenomenon. Not very common in qualitative field work. Not a mode of observation but a way to carry out research: instead of a method for gathering data, it is a type of research design. Most case studies offer rich and detailed data about that case.
