Summer Institute for Research Design – 2012 Schedule
Week 1
Monday
Morning
- Overview and introduction (Johnson)
- Bestor, T, J Comaroff, L Garro, G Ryan, S Weller: Guidelines for Research Proposals in Anthropology. In, M Lamont, P White: Appendix 3 of Workshop on Interdisciplinary Standards for Systematic Qualitative Research (2005), Workshop report submitted to NSF 2007.
- Notes from Dissertation Advisory Review Panel (1995)
Afternoon
- Elements of a Research Proposal (Continued)
- Research Objectives
Tuesday
Morning
- Types of Research Designs (Johnson)
- Vertosick, Jr, FT: First Do No Harm. Discover 1998:106-11.
- Clark, DA: Cardiac Transplantation in Man, VI. Prognosis of Patients Selected for Cardiac Transplant. Annals of Int Med 1971, 75:15-21.
- Johnson, J: Chapter 4: Research Design and Research Strategies. In, Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology. HR Bernard (ed), Alta Mira Press, 1998
Afternoon
- Margaret Mead Controversy
- Wikipedia: Coming of Age in Samoa
- Brim, JA, DH Spain: Research Design in Anthropology: Paradigms and Pragmatics in Testing of Hypotheses. New York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, 1974
- Orans,M: Not Even Wrong: Margaret Mead, Derek Freeman, and the Samoans. Chandler & Sharp Pubs., 1996
- Research Objectives
Wednesday
Morning
- Review of Research Designs (Weller)
- A qualitative case-control study
- Bernard HR 2006: Chapter 5 Research Design. In, Research Methods in Anthropology. Lanham, MD: Altamira Press.
- Optional: Campbell, DT, Ross HL: The Connecticut crackdown on speeding: Time-series data in quasi-experimental analysis. Law and Society Review, 3(1): 33-53, 1968
- Optional: Fowler, JH: The Colbert bump in campaign donations: More truthful than truthy. PSOnline 2008, Jul: 533-539.
- The Link Between Theory and Method (Johnson)
- Research Objectives (workshop)
Afternoon
- An example of a funded grad student grant
- Research Objectives
Thursday
Morning
- Overview of sampling types
- Types of Probability Samples
- Johnson, JC: Selecting Ethnographic Informants. Sage Pubs, 1990
- Bernard HR 2006: Chapter 6 Sampling. In, Research Methods in Anthropology. Lanham, MD: Altamira Press.
- Bernard HR 2006: Chapter 8 Non-probability Sampling. In, Research Methods in Anthropology. Lanham, MD: Altamira Press.
Afternoon
- Research Objectives
- Levels of measurement
- Univariate and bivariate statistics
- Statistical techniques and hypothesis testing with few assumptions
- Bernard HR 2006: Chapter 19 Univariate Statistics. In, Research Methods in Anthropology. Lanham, MD: Altamira Press.
- Bernard HR 2006: Chapter 20 Bivariate Statistics. In, Research Methods in Anthropology. Lanham, MD: Altamira Press.
- Noreen: Computer Intensive Methods for Testing Hypotheses
- Statistical Workshop
- Review: Research Designs & Statistics
- Systematic Collection And Analysis Of Qualitative Data: Data Collection Techniques
- Bernard HR 2006: Chap 16, Introduction to Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis. In, Research Methods in Anthropology. Lanham, MD: Altamira Press.
- Bernard HR 2006: Chap 17, Qualitative Data Analysis I. In, Research Methods in Anthropology. Lanham, MD: Altamira Press.
- Overview of Qualitative Methods (Van Holt/Ryan)
- Qualitative Research: Qualitative Research: Codebooks and Describing Themes (Van Holt/Ryan)
- Theme Identification Workshop
- Ryan & Bernard: Techniques to Identify Themes. Field Methods 2003, 15(1): 85-109.
- Qualitative Research: Codebooks and Describing Themes (Van Holt/Ryan)
- Systematic collection and analysis of qualitative data: Analysis of qualitative data
- Ryan & Bernard: Data Management and Analysis Methods. In Handbook of Qualitative Research, Norman Denzin & Yvonna Lincoln (eds.), Sage Pubs, 2000, Chapter 29, p 769-802.
- Bernard HR 2006: Chap 18, Qualitative Data Analysis II. In, Research Methods in Anthropology. Lanham, MD: Altamira Press.
- Qualitative Research: Building Testing Models (Van Holt/Ryan)
- Qualitative Research: Grounded Theory, Classic Content, Word-Based Analyses and EDM (Van Holt/Ryan)
- Analysis of Qualitative Data Workshop
- Getting Started with Interviewing
- Spradley: The Ethnographic Interview
- Eliciting items and themes with free-recall listing and other techniques
- Johnson, JC & SC Weller: Elicitiation Techniques for Interviewing. In Handbook of Interview Research, JF Gubrium & JA Holstein (eds.), Sage Pub, 2002.
- Optional: Weller & Dungy: Personal preferences and ethnic variation among Anglo and Hispanic breast and bottle feeders. Social Science and Medicine 1986, 23:539-548.
- Optional: Weller, Romney, Orr: The myth of a sub-culture of corporal punishment. Human Organization 1987, 46(1):39-47.
- Weller SC & Romney AK: Chap 1 & 2. In, Systematic Data Collection, Sage.
- Interviewing Workshop
- Interviewing Workshop: Free-recall listing
- Assignment: Draft first page of interview
- Structured Interviewing: General Information Questions
- Weller, SC: Structured interviewing and questionnaire construction. In, Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology, HR Bernard (ed), Alta Mira Press, 1998.
- Student Examples
- Structured Interviewing: Attitudinal Scales and Knowledge Tests
- Structured Interviewing: Similarity Data and Classification
- Weller, SC and AK Romney: Chapter 3. In Systematic Data Collection, Sage Pub, 1988.
- Weller, SC and AK Romney: Chapters 4, Pile Sorting. In Systematic Data Collection, Sage Pub, 1988.
- Weller, SC and AK Romney: Chapters 5, Triadic Comparisons. In Systematic Data Collection, Sage Pub, 1988.
- Weller, SC and AK Romney: Chapters 8. In Systematic Data Collection, Sage Pub, 1988.
- Interviewing Workshop
- Cultural Consensus Modeling
- Weller, SC and AK Romney: Chapter 11 Reliability, Consensus, and Sample Size. In Systematic Data Collection, Sage Pub, 1988.
- Weller, SC and AK Romney: Chapter 12. Validity and Replication with Variation. In Systematic Data Collection, Sage Pub, 1988.
- Weller, SC: Frequently Asked Questions about Consensus Analysis. Field Methods 2007, 19:339-368.
- Optional: Johnson JC, DC Griffith: Pollution, Food Safety, and the Distribution of Knowledge. Human Ecology 1996, 24:87-108.
- Kis, AD: An Analysis of the Impact of Aids on Funeral Culture in Malawi. NAPA Builletin 2007, 27: 129-140.
- Class Example
- Class example & workshop
- Workshop & Review: Data Collection & Analysis Software
- Workshop & Review: Data Collection & Analysis Software
- Introduction to Social Network Analysis
- Johnson, J: Anthropological Contributions to the Study of Social Networks. In, Advances in Social Network Analysis, Wasserman S, J Galaskiewicz (eds), Sage Pub., 1994
- Social Network Analysis
- Hanneman, Robert A. and Mark Riddle. 2005. Introduction to social network methods. Riverside, CA: University of California, Riverside
- Workshop
- Questions & Answers
- Finish Proposals
- Presentation & Discussion of Student Projects