Hello list members
I trained in anthropological linguistics and then did my doctorate in
Education - institutional ethnography. Having returned to qualitative
research, anthropology and ethnography and talking/advising recently
with student researchers and some design educator peers trying to do
PhDs with social science leanings it's apparent that designers may not
have seen the emergence of pragmatism (yes I do also mean Richard Rorty)
and critical rationalism (Popper is usually mentioned at this point) in
social science (and health and education) which fits admirably some of
the work designers appear to be trying to do with products organisations
and other mundane and esoteric objects. What this says is effectively
lets use qualitative and quantitative methods (yes- I know this is a
passe dichotomy but bear with me) where appropriate to answer the
question, whatever that is. Read these people
SILVERMAN, D. (2001) Interpreting qualitative data : methods for
analysing talk, text, and interaction, London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif.,
Sage.
SEALE, C. (2007) Qualitative research practice, London, SAGE.
SEALE, C. (2004) Researching society and culture, London, SAGE.
(see my review at Discourse & Society
http://das.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/18/1/117?rss=1)
BRYMAN, A. (2006) Mixed methods, London, SAGE.
CRESWELL, J. W. & PLANO CLARK, V. L. (2007) Designing and conducting
mixed methods research, Thousand Oaks, Calif., SAGE.
PUNCH, K. F. (1998) Introduction to social research : quantitative and
qualitative approaches, London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif., SAGE
Publications.
ATKINSON, P. (2001) Handbook of ethnography, London ; Thousand Oaks,
Calif., SAGE.
Hope its practical. Gavin Melles.
Swinburne University of Technology
CRICOS Provider Code: 00111D
NOTICE
This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and intended only for the use of the addressee. They may contain information that is privileged or protected by copyright. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution, printing, copying or use is strictly prohibited. The University does not warrant that this e-mail and any attachments are secure and there is also a risk that it may be corrupted in transmission. It is your responsibility to check any attachments for viruses or defects before opening them. If you have received this transmission in error, please contact us on +61 3 9214 8000 and delete it immediately from your system. We do not accept liability in connection with computer virus, data corruption, delay, interruption, unauthorised access or unauthorised amendment.
Please consider the environment before printing this email.
|