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Handouts and powerpoint presentations

Keith Pezzoli's ESI Powerpoint Presentation (April 21, 2007 22meg ppt)

All USP 187 ASSIGNMENTS IN ONE PDF, click here

Informed concent forms (click here)

Methods worksheet for research design

Mapping your SRP: A worksheet
SRP Map.pdf

Click the image to the left to download
a full size version. Fill in the fields on the
form. Save the document using
your last name as the title, then send
it to Keith at kpezzoli@ucsd.edu
(if you want it shown on the screen
this Thursday, Nov 10, for open class
discussion). When you open the pdf,
ignore the error message saying "font
with a bad width," just click ok.

The field for "units of analysis" is asking you to list the foci of your inquiry. Lofland et al. (2006) give these examples: practices, episodes, encounters, roles and social types, social and personal relationships, groups and cliques, organizations, settlements and habitats, subcultures and lifestyles. Other examples include networks, policies and plans, among many others.

Examples to discuss in class:

1. Blight by C. Shay Dewey visio-blight.jpg

2. Affordable housing provision by Iman Visio-ImanSRP.gif

3. Conjunctive Housing arrangements by Caitlin visio-conjunctive-housing.jpg

Susan Shaler's presentation on Questionnaires and Surveys, click here for ppt file (52k)

On Selecting a Topic
Categories to think about as you choose a topic, click here for pdf file (149k)

The difference between ideology and social theory, click here

Click here for a list of David Pellow's research projects
Click here for a list of Richard Marciano and Keith Pezzoli's research projects:

Regional Ecology as one possible conceptual approach to think about theory-building and practice for urban and regional planning (and sustainable development),
Click here for a powerpoint file (7m long version) (4m short version).

How to organize and write a research proposal

Convincing your reader that your study should be done, can be done, and will be done
Marshal and Rossman (1999, ch. 3) on e-reserves:
http://reserves.ucsd.edu/eres/docs/31970/marshall_rossman_ps.pdf

A framework to guide decision making in observation, pdf file from Marshall and Rossman (1999)

Evaluating sources of evidence, click here
Matching research questions with strategy, click here for pdf --click here for jpeg

Discourse Analysis, click here

Layder-research-map

Identifying structures and mechanisms in your research
Neuman(structures) Surface "reality" and underlying structure
Danermark(structures)
Sayer(structures-mechanisms-events)

Example of conceptualization: empowerment
Friedmann_Prospect-of-Cities(social-power)

From the Robson (2002) book

Evaluation Research
purposes-evaluation(7.1)

Types of research (emancipatory paradigm and action-research)
action-research(7.6)
emancipatory-rsh(2.5)

Features considered by researchers to characterize the antecedents of their successful and unsuccessful research
roots of success(3.4)

Good research questions/ Classification of the purposes of inquiry
good rsh questions(3.5-3.6)

Linking research questions to purpose
linking-to-purpose(3.7)

Ten questionable practices (issue of ethics)
ten-questionable(3.8)

Neuman (2003) Social Research Methods
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Neuman (2003) Social Research Methods
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Mapping your SRP worksheet
SRP Map.pdf

INTERVIEWS

Powerpoint presentations showed by Susan Shaler (TA), Jan. 24, 2006, in class.

1_2D_INTRO_TO_VALIDITY.PPT;

1_2_RESEARCH_STRUCTURE.PPT;

P2___DEDUCTIVE_INDUCTIVE_RE.PPT;

The list of files below was compiled by Sam Popkin in Political Science for a workshop on field research (focused on interviewing). I include copies of the pdf files here for educational use only. They will be removed from the web site at the end of class. Thank you to Susan Shaler for alerting us to this list of files. The graduate students taking the workshop on interviewing and field research were instructed to start with the two Dexter articles, then Whyte, then Schwarz. The order in which you read the rest doesn't matter.

Goldstein Getting in the Door.pdf;

Leech Techniques for Unstructured Interviews.pdf;

Peabody Elite Interviewing.pdf;

Rivera Interviewing ELites -- Russia.pdf;

Schwarz Logic of Conversation.pdf;

Whyte What Kind of Truth Do You Get.pdf;

Woliver Ethical DIlemmas.pdf;

Zuckerman Interviwing Ultra-Elite.pdf;

Berry Validity & Reliability.pdf;

Dexter Elite & Specialized Interviewing.pdf

Dexter Goodwill of Important people.pdf;

Fenno Observation, COntext, Sequence.pdf;