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From:         FORDJ@BYUVAX.BITNET
Subject:      Winograd, Spradley & Bridging References

Judith Preissle-Goetz (jgoetz@uga.cc.uga.edu) writes:

]>Winograd & Flores' book
]>was similarly a good bridge to the hermeneutic tradition because of my
]>cognitive science background.
]
]I don't know that reference, John, would you post the full citation?

Winograd, Terry.
  Understanding computers and cognition : a new foundation for design / Terry
Winograd Fernando Flores. -- Norwood, N.J. : Ablex Pub. Corp., c1986.
  xiv, 207 p. ; 24 cm. -- (Language and being)
  "Version of December 21, 1984."
  Bibliography: p. 181-189.
  Includes index.

]>Also, I wonder if it is too easy to read Spradley as more of a "traditionalist
"
]>than is fair?
]
]I am not sure how you are using the term "traditionalist."  I did my
]graduate work in the late 1960s and early 1970s when Spradley's work
]was regarded among my cohorts and mentors as pretty much on the
]cutting edge.  Of course, 25 years later it may be regarded as part
]of a tradition.

Perhaps I am using terminology that is local to our discussions here at BYU.
My fellow graduate students who do ethnographic work place themselves
in the postmodernist philosophical camp.  To them most of my training
in cognitive psychology (and my relative inattention to matters explicitly
philosophical) places me in a positivist or "traditionalist" camp.  When I
first read Spradley I resonated to the cognitive structure implications of
his work and saw it as very related to "traditional" experimental
cognitive psychology.  Having now read some other sources on ethnography,
naturalistic inquiry and qualitative methodology (just enough to be dangerous)
I now believe that I initially missed (or seriously deemphasized) much of
what Spradley was saying about "understanding" another culture from
the perspective of an insider.  Instead I was concentrating on those aspects
of his approach which were more familiar to me.

Of course, Spradley was a good "bridge" for this same reason.

John M. Ford             BYU Instructional Psychology Program
740 South 50 East        (801) 224-9039
Orem, UT 84058           fordj@yvax.byu.edu
From: gallo@zeno.fit.edu (Michael A. Gallo)
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Subject: Questionnaires/Interview Questions for Educational Networking
Date: 9 Apr 92 22:08:14 GMT
Organization: Florida Institute of Technology

Hi,

I am inquiring about any structured interview questions or questionnaires that
focus on educational networking.  I am particularly interested in questionnaires
or interview questions (questions that would form the basis of a "general
interview" guide or "standardized open-ended" form as discussed by Patton --
Qualitative Evaluative Research Methods, 1990) that would help identify 

     * variables that influence teacher use or disuse of an 
       educational computer network

     * resources or services that teachers require that will foster
       network use

     * behavioral changes teachers might experience when trying to
       incorporate networking activities into their classrooms

     * barriers teachers face in their pursuit of classroom connectivity

     * the decision process teachers use when determining whether or
       not a particular educational resource is worthy of consideration
       for classroom implementation

I also am extremely interested in whether or not any attention has been 
given to the validity and reliability issues for these questionnaires and
interview questions.  If such attention has been given please indicate 
the type of validity (content, face, criterion-related), how reliability
was determined, and what the validity and reliability factors are for the
instruments.

Any assistance that can be provided is will be greatly appreciated.  Thanks
in advance.


Mike Gallo
Network Administrator
Academic and Research Computing Services
Florida Institute of Technology
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From:         Alice <ROBBIN@WISCSSC.BITNET>
Subject:      RE: Structure - Network Analysis System

You can obtain a copy of STRUCTURE from Columbia University's
Center for the Social Sciences.  According to an article written
by Ronald S. Burt ("Social Contagion and Innovation: Cohesion
versus Structural Equivalence," American J. of Sociology, V. 92
(May 1987): 1287-1335), you can obtain a copy of the microcomputer
network-analysis software by requesting Technical Report No. TR2,
"STRUCTURE, Version 3.0" (including documentation) from the Center.
Enclose a check ($25) made out to the Research Program in
Structural Analysis to "help defray duplication and mailing costs."
Data and software are sent on disketes in DOS 360K format for
an IBM microcomputer.

Unfortunately, I do not have the exact address of Columbia
University, but if you give me a little bit of time (until the
library opens), I will call the Reference Department at my
University's central library for you.

Best of luck.  Alice Robbin, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
                ROBBIN@sscb.ssc.wisc.edu   ROBBIN@wiscssc
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From:         ricki@UNIXG.UBC.CA
Subject:      Re: Studies of "self"
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Thanks for bringing a smile to my face when I am feeling so swamped with
work! What you said was really cute! Playful... something I rarely see on
the net.

Thanks again...

Ricki Goldman-Segall


yes, of course, I agree and try to do the same in my work!
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Subject:      Re: Just a question...

You might look at the Poetics of Growth, and also at The Narrative
Paradigm, by Walt Fisher.  Not methods per se but very much related.
Eric
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Subject:      Steven Brown's Q methodology tutorial
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Four files containing the 8-segment tutorial on Q methodology by Steven
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From:         Nicholas Sturm <aa248@YFN.YSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: qualrs-l ethnography?

  The point of whether to delete names or to include them will hardly
be resolved unless we have a specific legal codification that tells
the user they can and must do one or the other.  One wants to be
quoted on everything he/she writes; another want complete anonymnity
for every such expression.  This has been battled extensively during
the last two months one one of the LISTs.

  There is no resolution unless you ask before each quote; but then
months of observation may have to be suppressed because someone
objects to one, the other or both.

  Forget it.  Social research just is verboten to some in your potential
study population.

--
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Subject:      Re: Studies of "self"

Cliff:




















Cliff:
Cliff:
Nice to know I'm not alone in this line of thinking.  Does anyone know how mains
   tream this is or is becoming?  I understand that "fringe" can also be conside
   red"cutting edge", but which is it?

Diane
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Subject:      Re: qualrs-l ethnography?

  The reports from both sides were simply censored.  I didn't trust
either of them.  But I did not choose to reject them and turn off
the station.

  As a minor scientist that has often been rewritten frequently, the
question of validy of reporters interpretations does go both ways.
I've seen science seriously butcher because the report simply did
not understand.  The few calls I've received from those who were
sure I made a mistake were simply told the report wrote the story--
I did not see it.  I could not make him understand; sorry but few
reports have ever taken a science course, certainly not all fields
and they did not ask me if they were correct.

  (report twice above --> reporter; sorry no decent editor on this
machine; at least not one I've had time to learn)

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Subject:      Re: Circles of Interest
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I'm finding it would be helpful to know more about the backgrounds of
my students in naturalistic inquiry before finalizing the course
readings and assignments for field work.  I sense a need for both
theirnparadigmatic background - which may not be fully self-conscious
-and their trining in research methods.  (I'm getting students from
various departments.)  Has anyone done a set of qustions tat would
tease out this sort of information?  Zoe Barley Western Michigan?
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From:         Lee Komito <LKOMITO@IRLEARN.UCD.IE>
Subject:      RE: Structure - Network Analysis System
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On Tue, 14 Apr 1992 10:20:00 CDT Alice said:
>You can obtain a copy of STRUCTURE from Columbia University's
>Center for the Social Sciences.
>                ROBBIN@sscb.ssc.wisc.edu   ROBBIN@wiscssc

There is a new version of Structure available, and I believe it costs
more than 25 USD -- however the advert for it that I received is
elsewhere. I will send current information when I track down where
I put the flyer (which I think arrived a month or two ago).


Lee Komito                       Internet: lkomito@irlearn.ucd.ie
Dept of Sociology                CREN/Bitnet/Earn: lkomito@irlearn
University College, Dublin       phone: +353 1 706-7106
Belfield, Dublin 4; Ireland      Fax: +353 1 269-4409
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From:         "Penny Oldfather" <POLDFATH@UGA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Studies of "self"
              13 Apr 1992 13:31:00 EST from <DGALAMBOS@UTOROISE>

In response to your concern about considerations of perceptions as viable infor
mation in qualitative research, I have involved student research participants
as co-researchers in a longitudinal study on student motivation.  The
co-researchers are the experts in relation to the question we have posed,
and it makes sense that they be involved in as much of the process as is
practical.  They have participated in elaboration, and correction of the
data during the process of data collection and analysis.  They have been
involved in writing about and presenting the findings of the study, and
in fact, are presenting with me next week at AERA.  The co-researchers
perceive that because of their roles as co-researchers they have taking the
inquiry much more seriously than they otherwise would have, and that our
findings have much more depth and value.  They are currently (as 7th and
8th graders) assisting in research in their former elementary school as
part of the school's work on a California school restructuring grant.
Penny Oldfather
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From:         david broudy <DBROUDY@UNMB.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Sc[Dinformation on the software package called Ethnograph

I have used Ethnograph intermittently, but not extensively, for about a
year.  It does what it claims, but I find the user interface annoying,
inflexible and mildly insulting.  The program insists that you first
produce
numbered text, code the paper copy and enter the codes a few at a time
on the computer.  The manual is clear, well organized and uses a sustained
example throughout. Ethnograph allows cataloging numerous separate files and
selecting and grouping them for analysis (a strength). Overall, I'd say Ethnogra
ph is a
good package with quite a steep learning curve, for a large project the
effort to learn it (and become inured to its idiosyncratic interface) would
be worthwhile.
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From:         mitchell richard sociology <mitchelr@UCS.ORST.EDU>
Subject: Re: Taxonomies
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]Sorry for putting this on the list but I am overlooking Marge's E-mail
address.  Marge, Bob Stebbins, U of Calgary has recently published a
book-length ethnography of commics adn comic clubs in Canada.  Ikuya Sato,
 author
or to U of Chicago's Kamikazi Biker is now studying comedy and little theater
groups in Japan.  	 have his address if needed.  Gook Luck.  Rich.
MITCHELR@UCS.ORST.EDU
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From:         DGALAMBOS@UTOROISE.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Studies of "self"

Thanks to y for your response.  It's fascinating to here first hand
how successful this approach can be, and I'd tend to concur that the
research results are probably more valid.  My question remains, however, and
that is, if I wished to record my own experiences about motivation, say, would
that be valid qualitative research or simply an autobiographical essay

Diane Galambos
dgalambo@utoroise
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Subject:      Re: Sc[Dinformation on the software package called Ethnograph

You can start on it immediatealy.  How easy you get into it depends
on your level of word processing.  It is compatible with IBM systems.
In addition you can use most any word processing program.  The manual
is extensive.  As a result borrowed software will still require a
manual.  I can't remember how much it cost now.  I paid less than
$200.00.  Like most programs, you get better as you use it.
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From:         EISENBE@USCMVSA.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Studies of "self"

Diane--
2 interesting texts on the subject: Fred Steier's research and
reflexivity (Sage), especially Klaus Krippendorff's work; also
H. L. Goodall's Living in the rock and roll mystery, especially
the way the section on autobiography (his) is connected to the
rest of the text.  Southern Illinois University Press.  I assume
you already know the discussion of Confessional Tales in John
Van Maanen Tales of the field.
Eric Eisenberg
eisenbe@uscmvsa.bitnet
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From:         Bill Beeman <WBEEMAN@BROWNVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Studies of "self"

There is already a fine, extremely well developed dialog
on the notion of the self in the anthropological literature.
If you are interested I can supply references.  The construction
of the self and selfhood is cross-culturally quite variable.
There is also a longstanding concern in anthropology with
autobiography, and the epistomology of the observer.
You might start with Kondo's CRAFTING SELVES for the former
tack, and Rabinow's REFLECTIONS ON FIELDWORK IN MOROCCO,
or Briggs' NEVER IN ANGER for the latter.
Good Luck
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From:         DGALAMBOS@UTOROISE.BITNET
Subject:      Studies of "self"

I am a doctoral student at OISE in Toronto and have been a non-active member
of this bulletin board (BB) for several weeks.  Qualitative research is
a new area of study for me and the BB has been valuable.  I am using the
opportunity of the recent silence to ask a question.
I am intrigued by the extent to which "subjects" can become "participants"
I understand that in some forms of research their input is invited at
both the design stage and in formulating/reformulating the conclusions.
If there is legitimacy in researchers recording observations/perceptions
and conclusions over which the "subject" has so much control, shouldn't self-rep
   ort/self-study be just as legitimate?
Does "self study" as "case study" exist as an accepted form of qualitative
research?
The only reference I've found to this is in Schwartz & Jacobs (1979)
QUALITATIVE SOCIOLOGY: THE METHOD TO THE MADNESS.  They say "data are...
retrievable facts... facts must be external to the individual...
the individual may not consider himself to be a source of data...
sociologists may not study themselves directly." (p.6)
I look forward to your responses.

Diane Galambos
dgalambo@utoroise.bitnet
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Subject:      Re: qualitative research tools

On Fri, 6 Mar 1992 12:45:00 EST <SCHLESL@SNYPLAVA> said:
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From:         SPAT222@UTXVM.BITNET
Subject:      Taxonomies

I'm working on a project for a Sociolinguistics graduate seminar, the subject
of which is a slice of my ongoing research into comics and comedy clubs.  This
 particular project's focus is on using Frake's taxonomic framework, at least
for part of the paper.

I'm aware of some of the criticism of such ethnographic tools, that they are
too static in a dynamic world, but I still wish to use my data and my
constructed taxonomies, and I'd like to include discussion of current thinking
on taxonomies.

I'm interested in starting a dialogue with anyone, privately or on this board,
regarding this project.

Margie Culbertson
U of Texas at Austin
Dept. of Speech Com.
[PhD student, final coursework semester before comps/dissertation]
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Subject:      Re: Studies of "self"

Dear Good Luck
Dear Good Luck
Thanks for the references.  I'll start with these and ask for more later.
Diane
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