CRIM 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Grounded Theory, Balkh, Histology
18 Apr 2018
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Beyond academic: useful goal to improve lives/conditions of those studied. Acknowledge indivdiuals as experts in own lives: co-creation of knowledge. Develop strategies to gather data to provide specific outcomes: problem solving. Working with immigrant communities and health concerns. Women who have experienced violence by their intimate partners. Histography uses historical archives, documents and data to develop a fluid and interpretative approach to understanding history. In relation to historical studies of crime and deviance torture, prison, discipline, punishment, penology, power. Understanding the lived reality of individuals within their social worlds or natural settings or social context via observation. Study of everyday practices and customs of different cultures or subcultures: how they experience/make sense of their world. Involves some level of immersion within the setting: observing and different levels of participation. Methodology (approach to research) and method (technique) used in different disciplines. True ethnographic study involves participant observation: requires the ressarcher to live in or make extensive visits to the setting.
