KSCB803 Fieldwork and interview-based research in cultural studies

Filozofická fakulta
jaro 2018

Předmět se v období jaro 2018 nevypisuje.

Rozsah
1/1/0. 5 kr. Ukončení: k.
Vyučující
Adina Zemanek, Ph.D. (přednášející), Mgr. et Mgr. Dušan Vávra, Ph.D. (zástupce)
Garance
doc. Lucie Olivová, MA, Ph.D., DSc.
Seminář čínských studií – Centrum asijských studií – Filozofická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Mgr. et Mgr. Dušan Vávra, Ph.D.
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Seminář čínských studií – Centrum asijských studií – Filozofická fakulta
Rozvrh
Po 14:10–15:45 U32
Předpoklady
TYP_STUDIA ( N )
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Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
This course will start from mapping cultural studies as a discipline by presenting its key concepts, the main spheres it takes into account and major theoretical frameworks and approaches. Its second part is intended as a practical guide to qualitative fieldwork-based research methods, with special emphasis on conducting research in China and Taiwan.
Výstupy z učení
- choose their own research topics and formulate them according to the main postulates and theoretical frameworks of cultural studies as a discipline
- formulate research questions and claims, design research projects
- choose the appropriate research method from among the presented qualitative approaches
- conduct the various stages of research as described during the course
- code and analyze data, prepare research results for presentation
- appropriately handle fieldwork-related ethical issues
- take into account the characteristics of China and Taiwan as research environments when searching for topics, formulating projects and conducting fieldwork
Osnova
  • 1. Introduction to cultural studies as a discipline. Key concepts and central sites:
  • - Culture, ideology, power
  • - Meaning, language, discourse
  • - Postmodernism and popular culture
  • 2. Central sites of cultural studies - 2:
  • - Gender, sex and the body
  • - Economy, globalization and urban spaces
  • - The state, politics and social movements
  • 3. Central sites of cultural studies - 3:
  • - Identity, ethnicity and nation
  • - Subculture, youth, style and resistance
  • - Media texts, producers and audiences
  • 4. Qualitative research methods; practical issues
  • 5. Working with texts; discourse analysis – texts and contexts; observing and collecting texts
  • 6. Doing ethnographic research – introduction
  • 7. Before fieldwork: designing research; problems, cases, samples; initial preparations
  • 8. Gaining access to data; approaching the field
  • 9. Doing fieldwork: qualitative interviewing - introduction
  • 10. Doing fieldwork: interview techniques
  • 11. Doing fieldwork: participant observation
  • 12. After fieldwork: analysis. Transcripts, coding data, presentation of research results
  • 13. Ethical issues
Literatura
  • De Laine, Marlene (2000). Fieldwork, Participation and Practice. Ethics and Dilemmas in Qualitative Research. London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi: Sage Publications.
  • Wolcott, Harry F. (2008). Ethnography. A Way of Seeing. Lanham: Altamira Press.
  • Orne, Jason, Bell, Michael M. (2015). An Invitation to Qualitative Fieldwork. A Multilogical Approach. New York and London: Routledge.
  • Gaetano, Arianne (2006). A Feminist Reflection on Ethnographic Research in China: Gender, Sex, and Power in Cross-Cultural Context. ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts, 23(1): 47-65.
  • Goh, Esther C.L., Göransson, Kristina (2011). Doing Ethnographic Research in Chinese Families – Reflections on Methodological Concerns from Two Asian Cities. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 10(3): 265-281.
  • Wolcott, Harry F. (2005). The Art of Fieldwork. Walnut Creek: Altamira Press.
  • BARKER, Chris. Cultural studies : theory and practice. Edited by Paul E. Willis. 3rd ed. Los Angeles: Sage, 2008, xxiv, 525. ISBN 9781412924160. info
  • The Routledge critical and cultural theory reader. Edited by Neil Badmington - Julia Thomas. London: Routledge, 2008, xii, 452. ISBN 9780415433082. info
  • HAMMERSLEY, Martyn a Paul ATKINSON. Ethnography : principles in practice. 3rd ed. London: Routledge, 2007, xi, 275. ISBN 9780415396042. info
  • Doing fieldwork in China. Edited by Maria Heimer - Stig Thøgersen. 1st pub. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006, xi, 322. ISBN 0824830709. info
  • RUBIN, Herbert J. a Irene RUBIN. Qualitative interviewing : the art of hearing data. 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 2005, ix, 290. ISBN 0761920757. info
Výukové metody
Lectures will be combined with class discussions based on reading assignments, case studies involving fieldwork and exercises regarding the expounded research methods.
Metody hodnocení
Course attendance is compulsory – no more than 1 absence is allowed. Final grades will consist of two parts: 40% assignments and class activity during the course, 60% written research project to be handed out one week after completion of the course. The research project should contain the following items: research topic; state of existing research; assessment of feasibility and approximate budget; research method; research plan; list of academic works on similar topics available to the student at present.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
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Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích podzim 2020, podzim 2021, podzim 2022.