SOC 322A - Urban Ethnography: The Pensive Observer

Institution:

Antioch University-Los Angeles

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Description:

This course offers ethnographic training in Naturalistic Observation, a sharp, unobtrusive fieldwork tool appropriate to the short-term study of concrete urban public behavior patterns. Students focus on the repeated and systematic observation of one single kind of public behavior taking place in Los Angeles. Examples of these may be standing in-line rituals, elevator riding etiquette, or cell phone multitasking. Through lectures, readings, one field trip, several fieldwork drills, educational media, and samples of ethnographic research reports, students learn to discern the larger, deeper cultural and political meaning of these deceivingly innocuous behaviors. The course cultivates the students' historical outlook, theoretical reasoning, research ethics, theory-grounded design of data collection protocols, systematic and selective application of observation and documentation skills, qualitative data coding, data-driven interpretation methods, as well as the command of appropriate formats to report and disseminate their findings. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN

Credits:

3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.antiochla.edu

Phone Number:

(310) 578-1080

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Quarter

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