Week 1: Overall Introduction of the Class
Introducing the Course (handing out syllabus, explanation the rules and requirements) and Participants, and Housekeeping.
Week 2: Mainstream Social Science
Bernstein, Richard, 1978. The Restructuring of Social and Political Theory. Philadelphia, PA: U. of Penn Press, pp. xi-53.
Longino, Helen. 1990. Science as Social Knowledge. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 3-102.
Week 3: Interpretative Approach
Bernstein, Richard, 1978. The Restructuring of Social and Political Theory. Philadelphia, PA: U. of Penn Press, pp 55-169.
Week 4: Critical Theory
Bernstein, Richard, 1978. The Restructuring of Social and Political Theory. Philadelphia, PA: U. of Penn Press, pp. 170-236.
Fay, Brian, 1987. Critical social science: liberation and its limits. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Week 5: Paradigm, Model, Theory
Kuhn, Thomas S., 1970. The structure of scientific revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Lakatos, Imre, “Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes” (PDF)
Week 6: Assignment One: Presentation of Research Ideas
Topic Two: Research Design
Week 7: Choices of Approaches and Methods
Levitt, Steven D. and Stephen J. Dubner, 2006. Freakonomics: a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. New York: William Morrow. (PDF)
Silbey, Susan. “Designing Qualitative Research.” (PDF)
Collier, David. 1995 "Translating Quantitative Methods for Qualitative Researchers: The Case of Selection Bias," American Political Science Review 89 (2): 461-467. (PDF)
Week 8: Research Design--Theories, Causation, Mechanisms
King, Gary, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba, 1994. Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Abbott, Andrew, 1995. "Sequence Analysis," Annual Review of Sociology 21: 93-113. (PDF)
Geddes, Barbara, 1990. "How the Cases You Choose Affect the Answers You Get: Selection Bias in Comparative Politics," Political Analysis 2: 131-50. (PDF)
Topic Three: Major Approaches of Methodology
Week 9: Case Study
Yin, Robert. 2004. Case Study Methods, draft. (PDF)
Gerring, John, 2004. "What Is a Case Study and What Is it Good for?" American Political Science Review 98 (2): 341-354. (PDF)
Gerring, John, 2007. Case Study Research Principles and Practices. (PDF)
Week 10: Multiple Cases and Comparative Study
Ragin, C. and D. Zaret, 1983. "Theory and Method in Comparative Research: Two Strategies," Social Forces 61(3): 731-755. (PDF)
Dion, Evidence and Inference in the Comparative Case Study (PDF)
Week 11: Other Methods, Experiment, Action Research, Mixed
Creswell, Chapter 4 Five Qualitative Approaches (PDF)
Corbin and Strauss, 1990. Grounded Theory (PDF)
Lustick, Ian S., 1996. “History, Historiography, and Political Science: Multiple Historical Records and the Problem of Selection Bias,” The American Political Science Review 90 (3): 605-618. (PDF)
Avison, D., F. Lau, M. Myers, and P. Nielsen, 1999. “Action Research,” Communications of the ACM 42 (1): 94-97. (PDF)
Assignment Two—Statements on Research Design and Theoretical Discourse
Topic Four: Methods in Field Work
Week 12: Observation, Interview, Survey, Participatory Observation, Physical Examination
Becker, Howard S., 1958. “Problems of Inference and Proof in Participant Observation,” American Sociological Review 23 (6): 652-660. (PDF)
Sieber, Sam D., 1973. “The Integration of Fieldwork and Survey Methods,” American Journal of Sociology 78: 1335-1359. (PDF)
Berg, Bruce L., 2009. “Focus Group Interviewing,” in Qualitative Research Methods for the Social Sciences. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon. (PDF)
Emerson, Robert M., Rachel I. Fretz, Linda L. Shaw, 2011. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes. University of Chicago Press.
Week 13: Field Practices: Ethic Codes, Validity Check, and Critiques
Guion, Lisa, 2002, “Triangulation: Establishing the Validity of Qualitative Studies.” (PDF)
Leeson, Jamie, Ewick, and Silbey, “Coded Transcript.” (PDF)
Pawson, Ray, 1996. "Theorizing the Interview," British Journal of Sociology 47: 295-314. (PDF)
Adcock, Robert and David Collier, 2001. "Measurement Validity: A Shared Standard for Qualitative and Quantitative Research." American Political Science Review 95 (3): 529-546. (PDF)
Kirk, Jerome, and Marc Miller, 1986. Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Research. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, pp. 9-52.
Ryan, Coughlan, and Cronin, 2007. “Step-by-step Guide to Critiquing Research, Part 2 Qualitative Research.” British Journal of Nursing 16 (12): 738-44. (PDF)
Silbey, Susan, “Conversational Interviewing Techniques.”(PDF)
Topic Five: Analyzing and Wrapping-up
Week 14: Letting Stories Breathe
Frank, Chiyoko Kobayashi, 2010. Cultural and Linguistic Influence on Developmental Neural Basis of Theory of Mind: Whorfian Hypothesis Revisited. New York, NY: Nova Science.
Week 15: Conversation with the Reader: Analysis and Plausible Rival Explanations
Westie, Frank R., 1957. “Toward Closer Relations Between Theory and Research: A Procedure and an Example,” American Sociological Review 22 (2): 149-154. (PDF)
Lebow, Richard Ned, 2000. “What's So Different about a Counterfactual? Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals,” World Politics 52 (4): 550-585. (PDF)
Week 16: Writing Style and Format
Williams, Joseph M., 1990. Style Toward Clarity and Grace. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Week 17-18: Assignment Three—Term Paper Presentation and Critics
You will present your term paper and respond to the challenge from your classmates in this class. To finish your final report you need to carry out your research in the field and collect sufficient evidences to support your argument. You need to prepare a PowerPoint file so that you can make a presentation in class and hand-in a Word version write-up by incorporating suggestions and criticisms into your draft and hand in the revised version by the end of the semester.
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