social skills

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HERE ARE INSTRUCTIONS PLEASE PICK 4 FROM THE LIST AND LET ME KNOW WHICH ONES YOU DID THE WORK FROM

1. Discuss how identity relates to the way social scientists frame research questions and conduct field research. In your response be sure to discuss if a researcher’s identity creates challenges and/or advantages in the research process and make reference to and draw examples from at least four articles in the seminar reading list below.

Reiniharz, Shulamit (1997) ‘Who Am I?’, in Hertz, Rosanna (ed.) Reflexivity and Voice, London: Sage
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Horowitz, Ruth (1986) ‘Remaining an outsider: membership as a threat to research rapport’, Urban Life Vol.14, No.4 January
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Devault, Marjorie L. (1997) ‘Personal Writing in Social Research: issues of production and interpretation’, in Hertz, Rosanna (ed.) Reflexivity and Voice, London: Sage
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Becker, Howard S. (1993) ‘How I learned what a crock was’, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography Vol. 22, No.1 April
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Devault, Marjorie L. (1990) ‘Talking and listening from women’s standpoint: feminist strategies for interviewing and analysis’, Social Problems Vol. 37, No. 1 February

Riessman, Catherine Kohler (1987) ‘When gender is not enough: women interviewing women’, Gender and Society Vol. 1 No.2 June

Zinn, Maxine Baca (1979) ‘Field research in minority communities: ethical methodological and political observations by and insider’, Social Problems Vol. 27, No.2 December

Stack, Carol (1974) All our kin, New York: Harper and Row

Ellis, Carolyn, Kiesinger, Christine E. and Lisa M. Tilmann-Healy (1997) ‘Interactive Interviewing: talking about emotional experiences’, in Hertz, Rosanna (ed.) Reflexivity and Voice, London: Sage
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