SOCECOL 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Active Listening, Cockfight, Ethnomethodology
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Theoretical sampling and constant comparison: mechanisms and meanings. Mechanisms: how do causes bring about their effects. What goes on between the appearance of a causal factor and its effect. Key examples: street corner society (whyte 1943): italian american youth gangs in boston. 1973): how the rituals of a cockfight reveal the way balinesians understand their world: mechanisms example: cross-border economic development. Problem: many variables, few cases, fewer strong patterns. Normal: getting inside a case that represents others well. How do social revolutions happen if societies in general tend toward stability. Critical case: an example of particularly important to test a theory. Insofar as theories make predictions, extreme values are important to understand them: moving through the research circle with a qualitative question. Interpretive: how things work and what they mean. How could this have been done with participatory methods o. Writing -depicting the culture as it is experienced. Applying analysis: showing how actors construct a shared reality together o.
