SOC512 Seminar in Sociological Methods Fall 2001

5-8:30 Wednesday 3410 Faner Hall

Kathryn Ward

Office: 3430 Faner Hall

Office Hours: Tuesday/Thursday 2-4pm; Wednesday 3-5pm by appointment

Phone: 453-7626 (Soc. Office) 453-7626 direct line

E-mail: kbward@siu.edu (I check my email at least once a day, early morning).

Seminar Objective: The purpose of this course is to provide some background and practical/hands-on experience in a variety of quantitative and qualitative research methods. Students will have opportunities to apply a variety of research methods to their stated research question or problem through: generation and analysis of quantitative data through questionnaires and secondary data analysis; oral histories, documents & narratives, ethnography, visual representations, focus groups and overlapping variations. Students will have an opportunity to design and work with a project of their own choosing, either from some existing projects with faculty or other graduate students. I also want to give students an opportunity to explore locally available research opportunities.

Seminar Requirements:

In general, students will be responsible for assigned readings; research portfolio (diaries [see guidelines for entries], for example, relevant printouts, fieldnotes, transcripts, coding, memos, and analyses); applying/conducting three research methods to your research project: (one quantitative and one qualitative from list below or by agreement with me---parts of #3 may be qualitative or quantitative); research paper. Students will also participate in three structured exercises as part of a group effort. Diaries, memos, and class participation should reflect an understanding of the assigned readings. Students will also have rotating responsibility for leading discussions on the readings. The final paper will include relevant literature review, statement of the research problem or hypotheses, methods, analysis, and findings based on the three methods.

I strongly encourage you to acquire or borrow a working tape recorder—standard or micro cassette and a few tapes—for recording focus groups, interviews, etc. The department has some transcribing machines available for check out.

1. Experimental/ focus group

· Assignment: replicate Andrew Hacker’s research from Two Nations on racial compensation in focus groups

2. Interviews:

· Assignment: ethnography/ fieldwork--restaurant study of authenticity---Italian, Mexican, Chinese, bbq....

· oral histories, life histories, focused interviews, foci group

3. Analysis of secondary data (overlaps qualitative and quantitative domains):

· assignment—identify variables from General Social Surveys, code, crunch, and write up results

· content analysis--books, documents, photos, theories

· historical analysis

· GSS, PSOID, NLY etc—national data sets/surveys

· Government Data

· Contextual analysis (combining data from different levels of analysis)

· Cross-national Data

· Ward’s aggregate data sets, cross-national, women’s movement, etc.

· Evaluation

4. Questionnaire, survey

5. Mixtures

All assignments must be turned in on time. Given health concerns, I don't have the energy to chase you down. So just turn your work in!!!!

Course Grade

Research portfolio 45%

--diary*

reports on your research, methods, results

--writeups from three group projects and other assignments such as coding qualitative data

Student Self -Assessment : I think I have earned an __ in this class. Please provide a one page rationale of your assessment. Re-read the goals and course requirements and include such items as the grades on your memos/diary entries/assignments, improvement in writing, your capacity for integration and reflection on the material presented, your participation in class discussions, your success at reading material in advance of each class session, your preparation/participation in groups, and any other information that you think is relevant. Do NOT include how much time you spent outside of class reading and/or writing. (5% of grade)

Scholarly paper with two methods—qualitative/quantitative 50%

*Diary entries include:

a) Notebook entries:summarize the major/salient points of readings

b) Research entries: describe your research related activities, problems questions, insights

c) Integrative entries: connect your research, class and & theoretical materials

d) Directed entries: responses to directed questions, events

e) Queries:

Note: These summaries will prove useful for comps, research methods sections of papers, etc. I also encourage you to read and write some every day on your readings and research rather than bingeing at the last minute. (See Boice, First Order Principles for Classroom Teachers or Joan Bolker, Writing Your Dissertation in 15 Minutes a Day [!])

Readings: The readings (books and articles) give an overview of research methods, data generation, and analysis techniques for diverse groups in terms of gender, race, class, sexuality, and geography. I’ve tried to select carefully for books that you will use throughout your career. Some of the books and readings will be on reserve in the soc reading room and all on reserve at the library.

We will read all of a few books and selected parts of others so relax, we won't be reading every word of all of these books. I may assign a few other articles as needed during the semester. Class members will share responsibility for leading discussions on books and articles, including handouts on salient points.

Books highly recommended for purchase

Earl Babbie, The Basics of Social Research (1999 edition)

Howard Becker, Tricks of the Trade.

Strauss and J. Corbin, Basics of Qualitative Research, 2nd ed (Sage)

Arlene Fink and Jacqueline Kosecoff, How to Conduct Surveys (2nd Ed) (Sage)

Valerie Yow, Recording Oral Histories (Sage)

David Morgan, Focus Groups as Qualitative Research, 2nd ed (Sage)

Ball, Analyzing Visual Data (Sage)

Smith, Media Content Analysis(Sage)

Recommended:

Bibliographic software….ENDNOTE or PROCITE

****Denzin and Lincoln, Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials

Steve Jones (ed), Doing Internet Research. (Sage)

Collier and Collier, Visual Anthropology, 2nd ed (New Mexico)

Harry Wolcott, Writing Up Qualitative Research (Sage)

B. Glaser and A. Strauss, The Discovery of Grounded Theory

Robert Atkinson, The Life Story Interview (Sage)

Reference Recommendation:

Lofland and Lofland (3rd edition) Analyzing Social Settings.

Fred Pyrczak and Randall Bruce, Writing Empirical Research Reports, 2nd ed,

Denzin and Lincoln, Handbook of Qualitative Research (hardcover, but Sage has a three volume paperback edition. A few copies are floating around the department

Diane Wolf, ed: Feminist Dilemmas in Fieldwork (Westview)

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The seminar will be conducted according to the following rules and goals:

Ground Rules for the Course:

1. Acknowledge that racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia exist.

2. Acknowledge that one of the meanings of racism/sexism is that we have been systematically taught misinformation about our own group and especially about members of devalued/minority groups (this is true for both dominant and minority group members).

3. We cannot be blamed for the misinformation we have learned, but we will be held responsible for repeating misinformation after we have learned otherwise.

4. We will not blame victims for their oppression.

5. We will assume that people are always doing the best they can.

6. We will actively pursue information about our own groups and those of others.

7. We will share information about our groups with other members of the class and we will never demean, devalue, or in any way "put down" people for their experiences.

8. We each have an obligation to actively combat the myths and stereotypes about our own groups and other groups so that we can break down the walls which prohibit group cooperation and group gain.

9. We will create a safe atmosphere for open discussion. This means both active listening to one another (and not always thinking about what we would say next). We will make sure that all members have an opportunity to contribute and will not allow a few to dominate the discussion. Further, at times, members of the class may wish to make a comment that they do not want repeated outside the classroom. If so, the student will preface his or her remarks with a request and we will agree not to repeat the remarks.

TOPICS AND ASSIGNMENTS

(Note that I will pick and choose some of the readings as per class interest and time—we won’t read all of these materials!)

1. Overview of methods/epistemology (8/22/01 and 8/29/01)

Discussion of research interests, potential projects, and range of methods and strategies

Start reading Howard Becker, Tricks of the Trade

Readings and Assignment Materials for 8/29/01

**ASSIGNMENT: your personal research history/class research problem statement/first diary entry, due 8/29/01

**get Informed Consent form from the Office of Research and Development/ORDA--Woody Hall--a table in the hall contains various forms or download from their web-site

Where goes sociology and sociological research?????

American Sociological Association website for code of ethics: http://www.asanet.org/ecoderev.htm

Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought (2^nd) , Chapter 11 (Chapter 10 in first edition)

Howard Becker, Tricks of the Trade Intro, Chapt 1-2

Babbie, Basics of Social Research, Chapt 1-3

Sandy Marie Anglas Grande “American Indian geographies of identity and power: At the crossroads of Indigena and Mestizaje” Harvard Educational Review; 70 (4):467-498 2000 (Proquest P)

Michelle Fine;Lois Weis;Craig Centrie;Rosemarie Roberts; “Educating beyond the borders of schooling” Anthropology and Education Quarterly; 31(2): 131 2000;

Discussion of informed consent

Finn-Aage Esbensen; Michelle Hughes Miller;Terrance J Taylor; Ni He; Adrienne Freng 1999. “Differential attrition rates and active parental consent” Evaluation Review; 23(3):316.

Howard Becker, Tricks of the Trade

Babbie, Chapt 4-7

Michael Buroway, “The extended case method.” Sociological Theory 16(1): 4-33

Joey Sprague, 1997.“Holy Mens and Big Guns: The Can[n]on in Social Theory” Gender & Society 11(1): 88-107.

Joel Best, Random Violence 1999. Chapts 1-3.

David Morgan, Focus Groups as Qualitative Research, 2nd ed

Esther Madriz, “Images of Criminals and Victims: A Study on Women’s Fear and Social Control.” Gender & Society 11(3): 342-356.

*Wayne Brekhus, “The sociology of the Unmarked: Redirecting Our Focus.” Sociological Theory 16(1): 34-51. 1998.

*Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Jill Neibrugge-Brantley, The Women Founders: Sociology and Social Theory: 1830-1930. Chapter 1, “Present at the Creation” See also chapters on Marianne Weber, the Chicago School, and Ida B. Wells & Anna Julia Cooper.

For 9/12/01 work on focus group research; 9/19/01 report on focus groups

Babbie, Chapt 8—Experiments

E Paul Durrenberger;Suzan Erem; “The weak suffer what they must: A natural experiment in thought and structure” American Anthropologist; 101(4): 783-793 1999;

Cross Race Face Recognition

http://eyewitness.utep.edu/crossrace.html see “Line ups and Evaluation” on side bar

http://www.apa.org/releases/facerecog.html

http://www.personal.kent.edu/~dlevin/faces.html

http://www.vuw.ac.nz/psyc/wareham_dougherty/crossracebias.html

For 9/26/01 Fieldwork, Participant Observation—Local to Global

Shun Lu and Gary Alan Fine, “The presentation of ethnic authenticity: Chinese Food as a social accompishment.” Sociological Quarterly 36(3) 535-553. 1995

Elaine Bell Kaplan 2000. “Using food as a metaphor for care.”Journal of Contemporary Ethnography; 29(4):474

All Things Considered Radio Program, May 23, 2000, “Ethnography” Ethnography All ThingsConsidered Host Robert Siegel travels to New York City and Saint Louis, Missouri, to talk with several ethnographers who gather information about illicit drug use. These ethnographers are often sociologists or anthropologists, teaching in criminology

departments at colleges and universities. (20:30) Listen with RealAudio: 14.4 or 28.8K, www.npr.org go to archives

Babbie Chapters 10-11,13

A. Strauss and J. Corbin, Basics of Qualitative Research, 2nd ed, Part I

Annette Lareau, Appendix, Home Advantage (memorize if you haven't read this)

Paul Atkinson and Marten Hammersley, " Ethnography and Participant Observation" Pp. 236-247 in D & L

David Schweingruber; ClarkMcPhail; 1999. “A method for systematically observing and recording collective action” Sociological Methods and Research; 27(4):451

Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss, The Discovery of Grounded Theory Pp 1-44.

Judith Stacey, “Ethnography confronts the global village.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 28(6) 687-697. 1999.

Fine, Michelle; Weis, Lois Writing the "wrongs" of fieldwork: Confronting our own research/writing dilemmas in urban ethnographies;; Qualitative Inquiry, Thousand Oaks; Sep 1996; Vol. 2, Iss. 3; pg. 251, 24 pgs

Bradley A Levinson (How) can a man do feminist ethnography of education?;; Qualitative Inquiry, Thousand Oaks; Sep 1998; Vol. 4, Iss. 3; pg. 337, 32 pgs

John P Bartkowski;“One step forward, one step back: "Progressive traditionalism" and the negotiation of domestic labor in evangelical families”Gender Issues; 17(4):37, 1999;

Jasbir Kaur Puar; “Global circuits: Transnational sexualities and Trinidad”Signs; 26(4): 1039-1065 2001;

Mimi Schippers; “The social organization of sexuality and gender in alternative hard rock: An analysis of intersectionality” Gender & Society; 14(6): 747. 2000;

Jennifer Lois; “Peaks and valleys: The gendered emotional culture of edgework”Gender & Society; 15(3); 381. 2001;

Randy Hodson. “Organizational ethnographies: An underutilized resource in the sociology of work” Social Forces; 76(4): 1173 1998;

Suzanne Hanchett, “Women’s empowerment and the development research agenda: A personal account from the Bangladesh flood action plan.” Feminist Issues 15(1/2): 42-71

*John Van Maanen, Tales from the Field (esp chapters 3-5)

*Patricia Adler and Peter Adler, "Observational Techniques" Pp. 361-376 in D & L.

*Fran Markowitz and Michael Ashkenazi, “Sexuality and Prevarication in the Praxis of Anthropology” Pp1-24 in Fran Markowitz and Michael Ashkenazi (eds), Sex, Sexuality, and the Anthropologist. 1999.

*Ching Kwan Lee, Gender and the South China Miracle Chapts 1-3, 8 Methodological Appendix

*Harry Wolcott, Writing Up Qualitative Research

*Donald Stull, "Knock 'Em Dead: Work on the Killfloor of a Modern Beefpacking Plant." Pp. 311-336 in Louise Lamphere, Helena Ragone, and Patricia Zavella (eds.) Situated Lives: Gender and Culture in Everyday Life 1997

For 10/3/00 Interviews & Oral Histories

Valerie Yow, Recording Oral History

Strauss and Corbin, 2^nd ed, Part II—p. 55-123.

Bob Blauner, "Problems of Editing 'First- Person' Sociology" Qualitative Sociology (10)1: 46-64. Spring 1987

Jen’Nand Ghazal Read and John Bartkowski, 2000. “To veil or not to veil?” Gender & Society 14(3): 395-417

Amy Schulz, “Navajo Women and the Politics of Identity.” Social Problems 45(3): 336-355. 1998.

Kristin L Anderson; Debra Umberson “Gendering violence: Masculinity and power in men's accounts of domestic violence”Gender & Society; 15(3):358-380 2001 (P)

Russell P Dobash;R Emerson Dobash;Kate Cavanagh;Ruth Lewis;“Separate and intersecting realities: A comparison of men's and women's accounts of violence against women” Violence against Women; 4(4):382-414,-1998; (P)

Margaret Abraham “Sexual abuse in South Asian immigrant marriages”

Violence against Women; 5(6): 591-618 1999 (P)

Nancy Berns “Degendering the problem and gendering the blame: Political discourse on women and violence” Gender & Society; 15(2): 262-281 2001; (P)

Lois Presser; Emily Gaarder; “Can restorative justice reduce battering? Some preliminary considerations “ Social Justice; 27 (1): 175. 2000;

Michael P Johnson;Kathleen J Ferraro; “Research on domestic violence in the 1990s: Making distinctions” Journal of Marriage and the Family; 62(4): 928-963 2000;

Jennifer Dunn. 1998. “Defining women: Notes toward an understanding of structure and agency in the negotiation of sex.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 26(4):479

Margaret Newby, Sajeda Amin, Ian Diamond, Ruchira Naved. “Survey experience among women in Bangladesh.” American Behavioral Scientist 42(2): 252-275. 1998.

Steele, Fiona, Sajeda Amin, and Ruchira Naved. 2001. "Savings/credit group formation and change in contraception." Demography 38:267-282.

Carla Freeman “Is local: Global as feminine: Masculine? Rethinking the gender of globalization”

Signs; 26(4): 1007, 2001;

Christine B N Chin “Walls of silence and late twentieth century representations of the foreign female domestic worker: The case of Filipina and Indonesian female servants in Malaysia”

The International Migration Review; 31(2):353-385 1997;;

Christine G T Ho “Carribbean transnationalism as a gendered process”

Latin American Perspectives; 26(5)-34-54 1999;

Julian Mcallister Groves. 1999. "Romancing resistance and resisting romance." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 28(3):235

Charles Payne. 1996. I've Got the Light of Freedom esp Bibliographical essay

*Rose Jones, “Husbands and Lovers: Gender Construction and the Ethnography of Sex Research” Pp25-42 in Fran Markowitz and Michael Ashkenazi (eds), Sex, Sexuality, and the Anthropologist. 1999.

*Patricia Zavella, "Feminist Insider Dilemmas: Constructing Ethnic Identity with Chicana Informants." Pp 138-159 in Wolf

*Wendy Chapkis, Live Sex Acts

*Belinda Robnett, How Long, How Long?

For 10/10/01 Life & Cultural Histories

· Individual Assignment Progress Report on First Method and Your Research (10/11/01)

Strauss and J. Corbin, Basics of Qualitative Research, 2nd ed, Part II Pg. 124-242.

D. Jean Clandinin and F. Michael Connelly, "Personal Experience Methods" Pp. 413-423 in D & L

Gaye Tuchman, "Historical Social Science: Methodologies, Methods, and Meanings." Pp. 306-323 in D&L

Abby Scher, “Sociologists as journalists” Contemporary Sociology 28(4): 403-404. 1999

David Roediger, "On Autobiography and Theory: An Introduction" Pp. 3-17 in The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class. 1991.

Francesca Polleta, 1998.“’It Was Like A Fever’…Narrative and Identity in Social Protest.” Social Problems 45(2) : 137-59

Verta Taylor; 1999. Gender and social movements: Gender processes in women's self-help

movements Gender & Society; 13(1):8.

Eleanor Abdella Doumato, 1999. “Women and work in Saudi Arabia: How flexible are Islamic margins.” Middle East Journal 53(4): 568

Elizabeth Fernea, 2000. “The challenges for Middle Eastern women in the 21^st century.” Middle East Journal 54(2): 185.

Anthony S Chen “Lives at the center of the periphery, lives at the periphery of the center”

Gender & Society; 13(5):584-607 1999;;

Paul Wright; “The cultural commodification of prisons”

Social Justice; 27(3): 15. 2000;

Bill McCarthy, John Hagan “When crime pays: Capital, competence, and criminal success” Social Forces, Vol. 79, Iss. 3; pg. 1035, 2001

Sofia Villenas “Latina mothers and small-town racisms: Creating narratives of dignity and moral education in North Carolina” Anthropology and Education Quarterly; 32(1):3, 2001;(P)

Dolores Delgade Bernal, “Grassroots leadership reconceptualized: Chicana oral histories and the 1968 East Los Angeles school blowouts.” Frontiers 19(2): 113-142 (available on Proquest)

David Anthony Tyeeme Clark; “The Number of Tribes...Right for Him or Her: Romancing Imaginary "Indians" in On the Rez “American Indian Quarterly; 24(2):299 2000;

Mihesuah, Devon A; “Commonality of difference: American Indian women and history”

American Indian Quarterly; 20(1): 15. 1996

*Robert Atkinson, The Life Story Interview (Sage)

For 10/17/01 Content, Visual, Document, and Cultural Analysis; 10/24/01 Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Codes

Ward demo on coding documents, visuals, text with computer and other retro devices and meddling with both qualitative and quantitative analyses—including the ever popular Cairo shows, etc.

Coding personal ads assignment

Diary Entries due 10/24/01

Strauss and J. Corbin, Basics of Qualitative Research, 2nd ed, Part III

Charles Suchar, "Grounding Visual Sociology Research in Shooting Scripts" Qualitative Sociology 20(1): 33-56. 1997

Ball, Analyzing Visual Data (Sage)

Smith, Media Content Analysis(Sage)

Rhacel Salazar Parrenas; “Transgressing the nation-state: The partial citizenship and "imagined (global) community" of migrant Filipina domestic workers” Signs; 26(4):1129-1154 2001; (P)

Linda Grant, Ivy Kennelly, and Kathryn Ward, 2000 “Revisiting the Gender, Marriage, and Parenthood Puzzle in Scientific Careers” Women’s Studies Quarterly.

Susan E Short; “China's one-child policy and the care of children: An analysis of qualitative and quantitative data”; Social Forces, Vol. 79, Iss. 3; pg. 913, 2001

Joane Nagel “American Indian ethnic renewal: Politics and the resurgence of identity”

American Sociological Review; 60(6): 947 1995

S Elizabeth Bird, Gendered construction of the American Indian in popular media

Journal of Communication; 49(3):61-83 1999 (proquest P);

Gail Dines; “King Kong and the white woman: Hustler Magazine and the demonization of black masculinity” Violence against Women; 4(3):291-307. 1998;

Joshua Gamson, Freaks Talk Back Chapters 1,2 and methods

Katherine Stovel; “Local sequential patterns: The structure of lynching in the deep south, 1882-1930” Social Forces, Vol. 79, Iss. 3; pg. 843, 2001

"A warlike demonstration": Legalism, armed resistance, and black political mobilization in Decatur, Illinois, 1894-1898
The Journal of Negro History; Washington; Winter 1998; Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua;

The melodramas of Memphis: Contending narratives during the sanitation strike of 1968
The Southern Communication Journal; Hattiesburg; Spring 1998; Michael Osborn;John Bakke;

Their rising voices": A study of civil rights, social movements, and advertising in the New York Times
Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly; Columbia; Autumn 1998; Susan Dente Ross;

Susan Olzak et al. “Poverty, Segregation, and Race Riots: 1960-1993” American Sociological Review 61(Aug): 590-613.

Myers, Daniel J; “Racial rioting in the 1960S: An event history analysis of local conditions”

American Sociological Review; 62(1);94-112. 1997;

Pamela E Oliver; Daniel J Myers 1999. “How events enter the public sphere: Conflict, location, and sponsorship in local newspaper coverage of public events.” The American Journal of Sociology; 105(1):38.

Jackie Smith;John D McCarthy;Clark McPhail;Boguslaw Augustyn; “From protest to agenda building: Description bias in media coverage of protest events in Washington, D.C.”

Social Forces; 79(4): 1397. 2001;

Scott Davies; From moral duty to cultural rights: A case study of political framing in education

Sociology of Education; 72(1): 1-21 1999;

Dawn McCaffrey; Jennifer Keys.2000. COMPETITIVE FRAMING PROCESSES IN THE ABORTION DEBATE: Polarization-vilification, Frame Saving, and Frame

Debunking. The Sociological Quarterly, v41 i1 p41 2000

Thomas Almaguer, "Chicano Men: A Cartography of Homosexual Identity and Behavior."

Pp. 255-274 in Henry Abelove, et al (eds.), The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader . 1993.

Leon Pettiway, Honey, Honey, Miss Thang: Being Black, Gay, and on the Streets or Workin' It: Women Living Through Drugs and Crime Intros and one chapter.

Naheed Islam, “Naming Desire, Shaping Identity: Tracing the Experiences of India Lesbians in the United States’. Pp72-96 in Shamita Das Gupta (ed.), Patchwork Shawl: Chronicles of South Asian Women in America. 1998.

Patricia Gagne and Richard Tewksbury, “Conformity Pressures and Gender Resistance Among Transgendered Individuals.” Social Problems 45(1): 81-101. 1998.

Avelardo Valdez and Jeffrey Halley, "Gender in the Culture of Mexican American Conjunto Music." Gender & Society 10(2): 148-167. 1996

Barbara Babcock, "Mudwomen and Whitemen: A Meditation on Pueblo Potteries and the Politics of Representation." Pp. 420-439 in Louise Lamphere, Helena Ragone, and Patricia Zavella (eds.) Situated Lives: Gender and Culture in Everyday Life 1997

Angela Davis: "Afro Images: Politics, Fashion, and Nostalgia." Pp. 171-180 in D. Willis (ed.), Picturing Us: African American Identity in Photography. 1994

Angharad Valdiva, “Stereotype or Transgression? Rosie Perez in Hollywood Film” Sociological Quarterly 39(3): 393-408. 1998.

Barry Schwartz, “Collective Memory and History: How Abraham Lincoln Became a Symbol of Racial Equality.” Sociological Quarterly 38(3): 469-496. 1997.

Jon Rieger, ""Photographing Social Change" Visual Sociology 11(1):5-49

Douglas Harper, "On the Authority of the Image: Visual Methods at the Crossroads" Pp.403- 412 in D & L

Collier & Collier, Visual Anthropology Chapters 5-8, Pp 45-116

Preston Ewing Jr. and Jan Roddy (eds.), Let My People Go 1996

For 10/24/01 Using National Surveys & Contextual Analyses & Action/Evaluation Research

Check out the Michigan’s ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) on-line offerings for your particular research interest(s)—brief memo

Chapt 12,14

Jennifer Davis,Dale Whittington, "Participatory" research for development projects: A comparison of the community meeting and household survey techniques” Economic Development and Cultural Change 47(1)73-94 1998

Michael Hughes and Melvin Thomas, “ The Continuing Significance of Race Visited..1972-1996” American Sociological Review 63 (Dec): 785-795). 1998 [GSS]

Maxine S Thompson; Verna M Keith; “The blacker the berry: Gender, skin tone, self-esteem, and self-efficacy” Gender & Society; 15(3): 336-357, Jun 2001; (P)

Mark Hill, “Color Differences in the Socio-economic Status of African American Men: Results of a Longitudinal Study” Social Forces 78(4):1437-1460 (EBSCO)

Carol Ward, “The importance of context in explaining human capital formation and labor force participation of American Indians in Rosebud County, Montana” Rural Sociology; 63(3):451-480. 1998

Toby Parcel and Mikela Dufur, “Capital at Home and Capital at School: Effects on Child Social Development” Journal of Marriage and Family 63:32-47. 2001 (Ebsco)

Toby Parcel and Mikela Dufur, “Capital at Home and Capital at School: Effects on Student Achievement” Social Forces 79(3): 881-912. (Ebsco)

Kathryn Harker; “Immigrant generation, assimilation, and adolescent psychological well-being” Social Forces, Vol. 79, Iss. 3; pg. 969, 2001

For 11/7/01 Government, Aggregrate, Comparative and Cross-national Data

Martin Bulmer, “The problem of exporting social survey research.” American Behavioral Scientist 42(20: 153. 1998

Rachel A. Rosenfeld and Kathryn B. Ward. 1991. "The contemporary US women's movement: An empirical example of competition theory." Sociological Forum 6:471‑500.

Debra Minkhoff, “The sequencing of social movements.” American Sociological Review 62 (5): 779-899.1997.

Mathew Lee. “Concentrated poverty, race, and homicide. Sociological Quarterly 41(2): 189-206

Kathryn Ward, "Reconceptualizing World-System Theory to Include Women."

In Paula England (ed.) Theory on Gender/Feminism on Theory. 1993.

Kathryn Ward, "The Social Consequences of the World Economic System:

The Economic Status of Women and Fertility." Review 8(4): 561‑594, 1985.

Ce Shen and John Williamson, “Child mortality, women’s status, economic dependency, and state strength: A cross-national study of less developed countries.” Social Forces 76 (2): 667-94. 1998

Ryken Grattet, Valerie Jenness, and Theodore Curry, “The Homogenization and Differentiation of Hate Crime Law in the United States, 1978-1995: Innovation and Diffusion in the Criminalization of Bigotry.” ASR 63(Apr): 286-307. 1998 (event history)

Kenneth Andrews. “The Impacts of Social Movements on the Political Process: The Civil Rights Movement and Black Electoral Politics in Mississippi.” ASR 62(Oct): 800-819. 1997 [counties]

Jeffery Ulmer and John Kramer, “The Use and Transformation of Formal Decision-Making Criteria: Sentencing Guidelines, Organizational Contexts, and Case Processing Strategies.” Social Problems 45(2): 248-267. 1998.

Paul Stretesky and Michael Hogan, “Environmental Justice: An Analysis of Superfund Sites in Florida.” Social Problems 45(2): 268-287. 1998.

6. Survey Methods & Using Computers, 11/14/01, 11/29/01 12/6/01

First Paper Draft due 11/29/01; survey questions for your topic

Check out Demos of nud*ist, ethnograph, atlas, survey software from Scolari…etc.—brief memo on your reactions

Visit to Center for New Media Lab…..

Babbie, Chapt 10

Arlene Fink and Jacqueline Kosecoff, How to Conduct Surveys (2nd Ed)

Dale Nesbary, Survey Research and the World Wide Web 2000 Allyn and Bacon

Lori Kendall 2000. “Oh no! I’m a Nerd!” Gender & Society 14(2): 256

S Elizabeth Bird; “Chatting on Cynthia's porch: Creating community in an e-mail fan group”

The Southern Communication Journal; 61(5): 49. 1999;

Ami Rokach; “The relation of cultural background to the causes of loneliness”

Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology; 17(1): 75. 1998;

Tarrell Awe Agahe Portman; “Sex role attributions of American-Indian women”

Journal of Mental Health Counseling; 23(1): 72. 2001;

Christine T Lowery; “American Indian perspectives on addiction and recovery”

Health & Social Work; 23(2): 127, 1998;

Malcolm Holmes and Judith Antell “American Indian Drinking; Perceptions of American Indians and White Officials” Sociological Quarterly 42(2): 151. 2001

Doris Entwisle, Karl Alexander, and Linda Olson. 2000. “Early Work Histories of Urban youth, jobs, and high school.” American Sociological Review. 65(2);279-297

Andrea Nelson and Pamela Oliver, “Gender and the Construction of Consent in Child-Adult Sexual Contact” Gender & Society 12(5): 554-577. 1998. [questionnaire+interview]

Kathryn Edin and Laura Lein, Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work Chapter 1 (pg 1--19) Appendix A:236-249--interview questions

Steve Jones (ed), Doing Internet Research. (Sage)

IN-SEMINAR PAPER PRESENTATIONS: 12/6/01 & 12/113/01

**ASSIGNMENT: completed Research Portfolio due 12/6/01

*ASSIGNMENT: Paper presentations, scholarly paper due during finals week. (12/13/01)