Research Methods II: Analytical Methods …

Research Methods II: Analytical Methods and Thesis Writing (4011)

Module coordinator: Peder Anker

LITERATURE

Books to buy:

Roland Barthes, Mythologies, (London: Vintage, 1993), or any edition.

Anton Blok, The Mafia of a Sicilian Village 1860-1960: A Study of Violent Peasant Entrepreneurs, (New York: Waveland Press, 1988).

William Strunk and E. B. White, The Elements of Style, (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1979), latest edition.

Kate L. Turbian, A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), latest edition.

Optional reading:

Robert E. Stake, The Art of Case Study Research, (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1995).

Material available on internet: Garret Hardin, ”The Tragedy of the Commons," Science, 162 (1968), 1243-1248. http://dieoff.org/page95.htm

Tom Burke and Bjørn Lomborg, “The Challenge to the Environmental Movement,” Prospect (Oct. 1991), 12-15. http://www.lomborg.com/Prospect.htm

In the sourcebook:

Clifford Geertz, “Thick Description”, in The interpretation of Cultures, (New York: Basic Books, 1973), 3- 54

Daniel Bell, “Technology, Nature and Society” in The Winding Passage: Sociological Essays and Journeys, (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1991), 3-33.

Daniel Bell, “The Disjunction of Realms,” in The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, (New York: Basic Books, 1996), 3-30.

Manuel Castels, "The Greening of the Self: The Environmental Movement," Environmentalism: critical concepts, David Pepper (ed.), (London: Routledge, 2003), vol. 3., 184 – 207.

Robert Stake, “Case studies,” in Handbook of Qualitative Research, N.K. Denzin and Y.S. Lincoln (eds.), (Thousand Oaks, CA; Sage 1994), 236-247.

John W. Creswell, “Data Collection,” Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design, (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998), 109-137.

Kimberly Theidon, "Terror's Talk: Fieldwork and War," Dialectical Anthropology, 26 (2001), 19-35.

Cecilia Méndez-Gastelumendi, "The Power of Naming, or the Construction of Ethnic and National Identities in Peru: Myth, History, and the Iquichanos," Past and Present, 171 (May 2001), 127-160.

Clifford Geertz, “Culture War,” The New York Review of Books, (Nov. 30. 1995).

Steven Jay Gould, “Utopia Limited,” in Urchin in the Storm, (New York: Norton, 1987), 216-228.