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2024/2025  BA-BFILO2231U  Kvalitativ metode

English Title
Qualitative Methods

Kursusinformation

Sprog Dansk
Kursets ECTS 7,5 ECTS
Type Obligatorisk
Niveau Bachelor
Varighed Et semester
Starttidspunkt Efterår
Tidspunkt Skemaet bliver offentliggjort på calendar.cbs.dk
Studienævn
Studienævnet for HA/cand.merc. i erhvervsøkonomi og filosofi, BSc
Kursusansvarlig
  • Marius Gudmand-Høyer - Institut for Business Humaniora og Jura (BHJ)
Primære fagområder
  • Metode og videnskabsteori/Methodology and philosophy of science
  • Sociologi/Sociology
  • Virksomhedsstudier/Cultural studies
Undervisningsformer
  • Tilstedeværelsesundervisning
Sidst opdateret den 25-06-2024

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Læringsmål
To achieve the grade 12, students should meet the following learning objectives with no or only minor mistakes or errors:
  • Make use of techniques for research design, various research methods, and techniques for data analysis and interpretation that emerge from the interpretative social sciences, specifically anthropology and sociology.
  • Understand the relationship between an object of analysis and a given method.
  • Formulate and operationalize an answerable research questions that is appropriate for cultural anthropology.
  • Use basic research methods, such as participant observation, ethnographic interviewing, systematic observation, cognitive interviewing, archival surveying, etc., to research problems of relevance to a given student.
  • Critically assess the strength and weaknesses of different methods and different research designs.
  • Reflect upon approaches, methods, and research design used in empirical work for class assignments.
Forudsætninger for indstilling til prøven (aktiviteter i undervisningsperioden)
Antal obligatoriske aktiviteter der skal godkendes (se § 13 i studieordningen): 1
Obligatoriske hjemmeopgaver
The final examination is made up of a series of worksheets completed over the course of the semester. At an intermediate point in the semester, students will submit preliminary versions of some set of worksheets on a pass/fail basis and receive feedback.
Prøve/delprøver
Kvalitativ metode:
Prøvens ECTS 7,5
Prøveform Skriftligt produkt udarbejdet hjemme
Individuel eller gruppeprøve Gruppeprøve
Bemærk studieordningens bestemmelser om krav om individualisering af opgavebesvarelsen.
Antal personer i gruppen 3-4
Omfang af skriftligt produkt Max. 25 sider
The written project will be a packet of worksheets in which students work through various techniques of research design, research methods, and data analysis all according to a topic chosen by students. Given this, there is a bit of variation in how long student's exam packets will be. Generally, the core of what students hand in is between 20 and 30 pages.
Opgavetype Opgavebesvarelse
Udlevering af opgave Opgaven formuleres af de studerende selv, se evt. guidelines
Varighed Skriftligt produkt afleveres på en fastsat dato og tidspunkt.
Bedømmelsesform 7-trins-skala
Bedømmer(e) En eksaminator
Eksamensperiode Vinter
Syge-/omprøve
Samme prøveform som ved ordinær prøve
The make up exam will be the same as the normal exam.
Kursets indhold, forløb og pædagogik

Generally speaking, when you want to know something about human beings, the university sorts researchers into two big piles – those who count and do math (quantitative researchers), and those who talk and care about meaning (qualitative researchers). This split, however, is a harmful fiction. There aren’t any “counting” methods that don’t make some sort of assessment of significance; and there are no meaning methods that don’t enumerate as part of their argument for validity. More to the point, there are no good questions you can ask about humans that wouldn’t require both counting and assertions of meaning.

 

So, if the quantitative/qualitative split is more a bureaucratic convenience than any sort of real comment on the operation of the human science, what are we left with? The very short answer is “specific objects of analysis.” That is to say, specific things that researchers assume exist out in the world and then allow them to do research. Sociologists tend to assume that there is some sort of thing like society out there in the world that they can know about. Similarly, anthropologists tend to act like there is something out there in the world like culture that they can know about. Each discipline has a sort of presupposition about the world, and then has developed methods that allow them to know about it.

 

This course will take culture and society as it’s starting points and introduce you to a few methods (interviewing methods, observational methods, library research) that allow you to answer questions human culture and human society. In addition to these methods, this course will teach you about designing research, analyzing data, and reporting on what you have learned.

 

Each class session will be divided in half and will start with a workshop on the previous week’s topic, and then a lecture on a new topic.

Beskrivelse af undervisningsformer
Each course day is a blend of lecture, discussion, and workshop.
Feedback i undervisningen
Each class day will have time dedicated to workshopping students' attempt at a given method and reviewing students' attempt at completing a portion of the assignment. If students regularly attend and participate in class they will have the opportunity to work through the entire examination assignment prior to hand in.
Studenterarbejdstimer
Readings (approximate) 81 timer
Worksheets and methods assignment (approximate) 75 timer
Examination (approximate) 50 timer
Yderligere oplysninger

The primary discipline for this course is actually anthropology.

Sidst opdateret den 25-06-2024