社会学系  卢晖临  lu_huilin@yahoo.com

 定性研究方法

(教学大纲)

Qualitative Research

 

                                                                       2006年秋季

 

基本目的：
1.   向学生介绍定性研究的方法论、基本方法和具体的研究技术

2．帮助学生设计和实施自己的定性研究课题

授课对象：社会学及相关专业硕士博士生

先修课程：社会学概论、社会调查与研究方法

教学要求：本课程英文参考文献较多，要求学生有教强的英语阅读能力

 

内容提要与教学进度：

1．定性研究的方法论基础（实证主义与反思科学的论争）[第1周]

2．定性研究的设计[第2周]

3．个案研究与比较方法[第3、4周]

4．访问技巧与参与观察[第5、6周]

5．小组座谈会的设计及其应用[第7周]

6．讨论学生的“研究计划”（第8、9周，课外实习随后开展）

7．扩展的个案研究方法[第10周]（extended case method）

8．定性资料的分析[第11、12周]

9．理论与定性研究[第13周]

10．历史方法[第14周]

11．可靠性、有效性与局内人/局外人问题[第15周]

12．讨论学生的“研究报告”[第16周]

 

教学方式：
1.课堂讲授结合讨论

2.课外实习

 

考试方式：

1．课堂参与  20%

2．读书笔记  30%

3．期末研究报告50%

 

主要参考文献：

Robert R. Alford, 1998. The Craft of Inquiry. New York: Oxford UP.

Andrew Abbott, 2004. Methods of Discovery: Heuristics for the Social Sciences. New York: W.W. Norton. Chapters 3, 4, and 5.

Howard Becker, 1996. “The Epistemology of Qualitative Research.” Pp. 53-72 in Ethnography and Human Development. Context and Meaning in Social Inquiry, ed. Richard Jessor, Anne Colby, and Richard A. Schweder. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

R. M. Emerson, ed., 2001. Contemporary Field Research: Perspectives and Formulations. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press.

Matthew B. Miles and A. Michael Huberman, 1994. Qualitative Data Analysis. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Charles C. Ragin, 1987. The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Robert S. Weiss, 1994. Learning from Strangers: The Art and Method of Qualitative Interview Studies. New York: Free Press.

Robert K. Yin, 2003. Case Study Research: Design and Methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Charles Ragin & Howard Becker (eds).1992. What is a case? New York: Cambridge University Press.

Larry Griffin, How is sociology informed by history? 1995. Social Forces

Jun 1995, issue 4                 

Kathy Charmaz, 2001 (1995). “Grounded Theory.” in Contemporary Field Research.

 

Roberto Franzosi, 1998. Narrative analysis--or why (and how) sociologists should be interested in narrative. Annual Review of Sociology.

Victoria Bonnell, 1980. “The use of theory, concepts, and comparison in historical sociology”, Comparative Studies in Society and History 22 (2).

Jack Katz, 1983. “A Theory of Qualitative Methodology: The Social System in Analytical Fieldwork.” in Contemporary Field Research.

 

Clifford Geertz, 1973. “Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture.”

 (纳日碧力戈译：《文化的解释》第3-36页，上海人民出版社)