Research Methods and Methodologies Readings

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This list was started on Ingbert's Social Informatics Field Exam Reading List Worksheet and now exists here so that people can add to it, refine it, edit it, annotate it, etc.

The readings in some of these sections are of higher quality, and are more targeted, than others.

For people who are using this list to take their field exam, here is an explanation of the codes:

  • SI-F means that the reading has appeared on a previous social informatics field exam reading list.
  • C means that the reading has appeared on the old core reading list
  • SI-S means that the reading has appeared on the syllabus for the seminar in social informatics.
    • SI-S1 means that the reading appeared on the syllabus of the first seminar in social informatics.
  • The abbreviations for the different fields for the field exam are as follows. It should be noted that this list is constantly changing, and that faculty typically do not bother to tell us when the list changes.
    1. H = History of Libraries and of Library/Information Science
    2. SI = Social Informatics
    3. UU = Uses and Users of Information
    4. CLY = Children's Literature and Youth Services
    5. IOA = Information Organization and Access
    6. IP = Information Policy
    7. ISR = Information Storage and Retrieval


Contents

[edit] Research Imagery

Becker, Howard S. (1998). Tricks of the Trade: How to Think About Your Research While You're Doing It. The University of Chicago Press: Chicago, IL.

[edit] Research Methods

[edit] Ethnography

Duneier, M. (1999). Sidewalk. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux.

  • Appendix: A Statement on Method

Becker, H.S. (1996). The epistemology of qualitative research. In R. Jessor, A. Colby, & R.A. Shweder (Eds.), Ethnography and human development. (pp. 53-71) Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Emerson, Robert M.; Fretz, Rachel I.; Shaw, Linda L. (1995). Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes. Chicago, IL, USA: The University of Chicago Press.

[edit] Grounded Theory

Strauss, Anselm; Corbin, Juliet (1998). Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory. Second Edition. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

Adele Clark

[edit] Ethnomethodology

Harold Garfinkel (1967) Studies in Ethnomethodology.

(SI-F) Dourish, P. & Button, G. (1998) On "Technomethodology": Foundational Relationships Between Ethnomethodology and System Design, Human Computer Interaction, vol. 13, pp. 395-432.

[edit] Designing Research

(SI-F) Orlikowski, W. J. (2000). Using technology and constituting structures: A practice lens for studying technology in organizations. Organization Science, 11(4), 404-428.

(SI-F) Latour, B. 1987. Science in action: how to follow scientists and engineers through society. Philadelphia: Open University Press.

Becker, Howard S. (1998). Tricks of the Trade: How to Think About Your Research While You're Doing It. The University of Chicago Press: Chicago, IL.

Ragin, Charles C.; Becker, Howard S. (eds.) (1992). What is a Case? Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Popper, Karl (1939/1959). The Logic of Scientific Discovery. London, UK: Routledge.

Kuhn, Thomas S. (1996). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Third Edition. Chicago, IL, USA: The University of Chicago Press.

Hughes, Everett C. (1971/1984). The Sociological Eye: Selected Papers. New Brunswick, USA: Transaction Publishers.


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