Thank you so much for your hospitality in class. I enjoyed speaking with you all about research methods and I hope you found the discussion useful and interesting. I especially appreciate your patience with my technical difficulties!
As you go forward in your studies, especially in sociology, you now have a fundamental understanding that methods are always (well, most often) attached to theory - either testing it from the deductive approach or building it from the inductive approach. You also now have a keen skeptical eye for operationalization - how a particular concept is converted into a concrete and measurable variable. This will serve you well both as consumers of research in your remaining classes- and as producers of your own investigations! You now have a good basis for both critique and collaboration!
As promised, I'm providing a copy of the PowerPoint I used in class. I'm including the short film clips as well so if they don't open inside of the powerpoint, just open them separately. [NOTE from Anna: I was unable to combine the clips with the powerpoint - they are embedded below this message.]
Best wishes for your summer!
Michael Bourgeois
P.S. I'll be teaching a few classes in Winter/Spring (Social Movements, Gay and Lesbian Communities, and a couple of others). Watch for my name in the schedule!
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