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= **Course Handouts/Announcements**  = __**Qualitative (Ethnographic) Assignment:**__ __DUE: AIM FOR Posted on you Wiki page for sharing and feedback prior to March 10 class meeting.__ __**Resources:**__ --Wolcott “Cheat Sheet” Ways to Organize and Present Description #1-10 (p. 17-23 Ways to Approach Analysis #1-10 (p. 29-36) Highlight = p. 30, first 3 paragraphs! Ways to Approach Interpretation #1-11 (p. 39-46)

--Read Luttrell! Sample: p. 501/PDF p. 4 Decisions: 1: Collecting Life Stories (Data) 2: Developing Coding (Managing Data) 3: Designing Comparative Study (“Torn between reporting and making case for patterns”) 4: What’s in a Label (Understanding Social World) 5: Attending to Variations (Nuances) 6: Psychodynamic Understanding of Social Relationships (Tension and Trauma) 7: Psychodynamic Listening (Plus Reflexive Methods; last paragraph p. 515/ PDF p. 18

__**Assignment:**__


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">--30 Minutes of Qualitative Data Collection **

<span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">10 Minutes of: observation, field “memo” of description, notes, mapping, or artifact collection <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">10 Minutes of unstructured casual conversation with someone (use last few minutes to briefly note) <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">10 Minutes of structured (but general) conversation (e.g. three focused questions); write down responses as <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">accurately as possible.

<span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">__Example: Shopping at Best Buy for a TV yesterday…__ <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">10 minutes of exploring, figuring out the TV area, collected artifacts (ads, business cards, etc.) <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">10 minutes of chatting with an employee about TVs (I wanted to know if he appreciated tech)

<span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">10 minutes of focused questions (I asked about floor model sales, logistics of ordering online vs. in-store, and the future impact vs. risk of features going obsolete)

<span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">__Results:__ <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">One double spaced page; no second page! **Compile as one solid Word File; Upload to Wiki Page** <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Seek to answer the question: **//What do these insights allow me to conclude about this environment or corner of the social world?//**

<span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Include as Appendix A: Memo/Description/Artifact List or Scan <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Include as Appendix B: Brief Memo of Casual Conversation (okay to scan handwritten note or type as is) <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Include as Appendix C: Q’s and Answers

<span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">//Suggestion: Ways to organize (not enough here to analyze per se); or ways to Interpret//

__**Case Study Assignment:**__ Please read the following two articles on Blackboard or in these links: Yin "Introduction" Flyvbjerg "Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research"

And add an area to your Wiki Page where you address the following: 1) Based on these two resources, describe in a substantial paragraph what you believe an effective Case Study should do, should look like, should examine. 2) In at least one more substantial paragraph--but use what detail is necessary to conceptually outline your idea--describe a Case Study project you would employ in your classroom and the purpose it would serve, what it would seek to examine (hint: Yin). 3) Visit the ASU library site and search for at least one Case Study article that might serve as supporting literature to this potential Case Study of yours; upload it to your Wiki Page along with your description via the "File" button in the toolbar. 4) Bonus: include one or more hot links in your content to additional Case Study resrouces your discover online.

__DUE: Posted on you Wiki page for sharing and feedback prior to March 27 class meeting.__