Seminar in advanced sociological research methods.

Like other social scientific methods, ethnographic research offers a means to analyze and understand the social world. Yet, to an almost unparalleled extent, ethnographies provide close, processual, portraits of social relations, collective meanings, and interactions. In the words of the famed historical sociologist Charles Tilly, doing ethnography is both a science and an art. Keeping both characteristics in play, this graduate course will introduce and immerse students in the craft of ethnography. This will involve reading recent ethnographic works, conducting original ethnographic fieldwork, and reflecting on issues of ethics, power, theory, and representation in (sociological) ethnography.

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