SOAN 3070 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Participatory Action Research, Focus Group, Action Action

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 3070
• Professor: Anna Borisenkova

Document Summary

The quiz will focus on focus group interviewing, action research and ethnographic field strategies. Identity in focus: the use of focus groups to study the construction of collective identity . Article begins with a discussion of the methodology of touraine and melucci explaining how this influenced my own focus-group based research members of the women"s institute (wi) In order for it to be successful they needed to break away from common assumptions of how focus groups should be done. For touraine the ability to study action as it occurs is vital to the understanding of social movement. For melucci , can be seen as ignoring the way that social movements engage with the state and formal political processes. Focus groups were always used for research now they are also used for market research. Focus group is falling with the positivist paradigm. In this case, how the women made sense of themselves in the social group.