1. TENKNING I SAMFUNNSGEOGRAFI
Agnew, J. (2005) "Space:Place" i Cloke, P. og Johnston, R.J. (red) Spaces of Geographical Thought, s. 81-96 (16 sider)
Cloke, P og Johnston, R. (2005) "Deconstructing human geographies’ binaries" i Cloke, P. og Johnston, R.J. (red.) Spaces of Geographical Thought, s. 1-20. (20 sider)
Cox, K. R. (2005) "Local:Global" i Cloke, P. og Johnston, R.J. (red.) Spaces of Geographical Thought, s. 175-198. (24 sider)
Crang, M. (2005) "Time:Space" i Cloke, P. og Johnston, R.J. (red.) Spaces of Geographical Thought, s. 199-220. (22 sider)
Gregson, N. (2005) "Structure and agency" i Cloke, P og Johnston, R.J. (red.) Spaces of Geographical Thought, s. 21-41. (21 sider)
*Johnston, R.J. (2000) On disciplinary history and textbooks: where has spatial analysis gone. Australian Geographical Studies, 38, s. 125-137. (13 sider)
*Johnston, R.J. (1996) "Paradigms and revolution or evolution?" i J.A. Agnew, D.N. Livingstone og R. Alisdair (red.) Human geography – an essential ontology. Oxford: Blackwell, s. 37-53. (17 sider)
*McKittrick, K. og Peake, L. (2005) "What Difference does Difference make to Geography?" i Castree, N. Rogers, A. og Sherman, D. (red.) Questioning Geography: Fundamental Debates. Malden, USA og Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, s. 39-54. (16 sider)
Watts, M. (2005) "Nature:Culture" i Cloke, P. og Johnston, R.J. (2005) Spaces of Geographical Thought, s. 142-174. (33 sider)
182 sider.
Anbefalt tilleggslitteratur (ikke pensum):
- Cloke, P., Cook, I., Crang, P. Goodwin. M. Painter, J. og Philo, C. (2004) Practising Human Geography. London: Sage.
- Golledge, R.G. (2002) The Nature of Geographic Knowledge. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 92, s. 1-14.
- Hanson, S. (2004) Who are we? Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 94, s. 715 -722.
- Johnston, R.J. og Sidaway, J.D. (2004) Geography and Geographers. Anglo-American Human Geography since 1945. Sixth edition. London: Arnold.
- Sack, R. D. (1997) Homo Geographicus: a framework for action, awareness and moral concern. Baltmore, MD: John Hopkins University Press.
- Peet, R. (1998) Modern Geographical Thought. Oxford: Blackwell
2. STRATEGIER FOR KONSTRUKSJON AV TEORI
*Charmaz, K. (2006) Constructing Grounded Theory- A practical Guide Through Qualitative Analysis. Los Angeles m.fl: Sage Publications, kapittel 1, s. 1-12. (12 sider)
*Clarke, A.E. (2007) "Grounded Theory: Critiques, Debates and Situational Analysis" i Outwaite, W. og Turner, S.P. (red.) The Sage Handbook of Social Science Methodology. Los Angeles: Sage Publications s. 423-442. (20 sider)
Danermark, B., Ekström, M., Jacobsen, L. og Karlsson, J.C. (2002) Explaining Society. Critical Realism in the Social Sciences. London og New York: Routledge, s. 41-114. (74 sider)
*Gergen, K.J. og Gergen, M.M. (2007) "Social Construction and Research Methodology" i Outwaite, W. og Turner, S.P. (red.) The Sage Handbook of Social Science Methodology. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, s. 461-478. (18 sider)
*Hall, S. (1997) "The work of representation" i S. Hall (red.) Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. London Sage Publications, s. 15-64. (50 sider)
*Hernes, G. (1998) "Real Virtuality" i Hedström, P. og Swedberg, R. (red.) Social Mechanisms. An Analytical Approach. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, s. 74-101. (28 sider)
*Johannesen, A., Tufte, P.A. og Kristoffersen, L. (2005) Introduksjon til samfunnsvitenskapelig metode. Oslo: Abstrakt forlag, s. 171-183 (”Grounded theory”). (13 sider)
Ragin, C.C. (1994) Constructing Social Research. Thousand Oaks: pine Forge Press, kapittel 1-3, s. 1-76. (76 sider)
*Weber, M. (1904, her 1975) "Om teori og teoretisk begrepsdannelse" i Weber, M. (utvalg ved Fivelsdal, E., oversatt av Østerdberg, D.) Makt og byråkrati. Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag: 194-220. (27 sider)
352 sider.
Anbefalt tilleggslitteratur (ikke pensum):
- Charmaz, K. (2006) Constructing Grounded Theory- A practical Guide Through Qualitative Analysis. Los Angeles m.fl: Sage Publications, kapittel 2-8.
- Hekman, S. (1983) Weber: the Ideal Type and Contemporary Social Theory. Notre Dam: Univiersity of Notre Dam Press.
- Hedström, P. (2005) Dissecting the Social. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Mäki, U. og Oinas, P. (2004) The narrow notion of realism in human geography. Environment and Planning A, 36, s. 1755-1776.
- Phipps, A.G. (2001) Empirical applications of structuration theory. Geografiska Annaler, 83B: 189-204.
- Røe, P.G. (2000) Qualitative Research on intra-urban travel: an alternative approach. Journal of Transport Geography, 8, s. 99-106.
- Sayer, A. (1992) Method in Social Science: A Realist Approach. London: Routledge.
- Sayer, A. (2004) Realism through thick and thin. Environment and Planning A, 36, s. 1777-1789.
- Strauss, K. (2008) Re-engaging with rationality in economic geography: behavioural approaches and the importance of context in decision-making. Journal of Economic Geography, 8, s. 137-156.
- Werlen, B. (1993) Society, action and space. An alternative human geography: Routledge.
3. METODOLOGISKE VALG
*Castree, N. (2005) The epistemology of particulars: human geography, case studies and ’context’, Geoforum, 36, s. 541-544. (4 sider)
*Plummer, P. (2007) By the numbers? I A. Tickell, E. Sheppard, J. Peck og T. Barnes (red.) Politics and Practice in Economic Geography, s. 199-209. (11 sider)
*Nijman, J. (2007) Place-particularity and ‘deep analogies’: a comparative essay on Miami’s rise as a world city. Urban Geography, 28, s. 92-107. (16 sider)
George, A.L. og Bennett, A. (2005) Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, kapittel 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 og 8. (122 sider)
Ragin, C.C. (1994) Constructing Social Research. Thousand Oaks: Pine Forge Press: kapittel 5-6. 49 sider.
202 sider.
Anbefalt tilleggslitteratur (ikke pensum):
- Bergene, A.C. (2007) Towards a critical realist comparative methodology. Journal of Critical Realism, 6 s. 5-27. 23 sider.
- Gerring, J. (2007) Case Study Research. Principles and Practices. London: Blackwell.
- Kitchin, R. og Tate, N.J. (2000) Conducting Research into Human Geography. Edinburgh: Pearson Education.
- Kjelstadli, K. (1988) Nytten av å sammenligne. Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning, 31, s. 437-447.
- Pickvance, C. (1995) Comapartive Analysis, Causality and Case Studies in Urban Studies. I Rogers, J. og Vertovec, S. (red.) The Urban Context. Etnicity, Social Networks and Situational Analysis. Oxford, UK: Berg Publishers, s. 35-54.
- Wessel, T. (2002) Fra leie til eie. Konvertering av leiegårder i norske storbyer. Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning, 43, s. 299-331.
Sum pensum: 702 sider.