You will also find links to methods from my website www.ifsm.umbc.edu/onlinecommunities Best wishes, Jenny Preece
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Message: 1 Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 14:05:23 -0400 From: Jonathan Sterne <jsterne+@pitt.edu> To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] Re: research methods Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org
Hey Andrew,
Two books I'd recommend:
C. Wright Mills, _The Sociological Imagination_
Bourdieu and Wacquant, _An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology_ (really just the third section for a methods course)
Neither is comm or method specific, but they are, in my opinion, two of the most important books ever written on research design. Mills attacks the fetishization of theory and method, and closes with a really derisory description of his work patterns. Some of the book is dated, but it's amazing how much of it ISN'T dated. The third section of the _Invitation_ is about doing research that matters and learning to ask intelligent and important questions before applying method.
I've taught both books at the graduate level with great success.
You'll need some methodologies as well (remember: a methodology is a theory or description of a method, not the method itself), but these Mills and Bourdieu will give you something many methodologies don't.
Best, --Jonathan
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