The 7th Annual Qualitative Research Summer Intensive
Location: Long Island, New York
Dates: June 24-28, 2009
http://www.researchtalk.com/summer_09.html
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Draft Revision of Tri-council Research Ethics Guidelines
Canada’s Tri-council research funding agencies have drafted a new version of the guidelines for ethical research with humans. The new guidelines are significantly different and have a much expanded description of the nature of ‘qualitative research.’ Check out especially chapter 10 of the Tri-Council Draft Policy on Research Ethics.
transcription software
Freeware Express Scribe is downloadable and maybe helpful in the transcription of interviews task.
Ethics & fieldwork
“Field research can, at bottom, be considered as an act of betrayal, no matter how well intentioned or well integrated the researcher. You make the private public and leave the locals to take the consequences.” (Miles & Huberman (1994, p.265) in Qualitative Data Analysis)
Call for proposals ~ Congress of Qualitative Inquiry
Special journal issue ~ Visual Methods
Here is a link to a special issue of Forum: Qualitative Social Research on visual methods. The issue includes examples and discussions of current issues related to the use of photography, video, photo-elicitation, and mapping.
Figuring out all those “post”s
New book on research with children & youth from a social constructivist perspective
Theorists in short
This is a list of sociological thinkers that was created by Mike Goodman (with some input from Tom Conroy and Andrew Miller).
Karl Marx
Life’s not fair, let’s all share!
Emile Durkheim
You get the ankles, I’ll get the wrists.
Max Weber
All work and no play…
Georg Simmel
I feel like I am ze Country Mouse in ze Zitty, Ja?
Jurgen Habermas
Why can’t we all just get along?
Talcott Parsons
I have a diagram that explains EVERYTHING!
Pierre Bourdieu
Kids, stay in school.
Michel Foucault
Er… donnez-moi le gagball.
Erving Goffman
Where’s that #$@%!! waiter?
Jean Baudrillard
Real=fake; life=Disneyland
Robert Merton
Sometimes things happen for bad reasons and sometimes we can’t see the reasons right away.
Herbert Blumer
It’s all in your mind.
Louis Althusser
It’s not in your mind.
C. Levi-Strauss
Myths are cool.
Amitai Etzioni
C’mon people now, smile on your brother, everybody get together, we’ve got to love one another right now.
Clifford Geertz
Ooh, look, a cock fight! How Shakespearean!
Rational Choice Theory
Choose, or lose.
British Cultural Studies
It’s not so bad to spend time in front of the telly.