Syllabus

Please notify the study coordinator (studentinfo@sum.uio.no) if there are dead links or other issues regarding the syllabus.

In addition to the syllabus listed below, each student freely chooses 300 pages that are relevant to their project proposal. The list of the chosen readings should be included in the final submission of the project proposal January 2016.

Books

  • Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G Colomb, and Joseph Williams (2008) The Craft of Research. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
  • McCloskey, Deirdre N. (1999) Economical Writing. Second edt. (2008). Illinois: Waveland Press, Inc.

  • Moses, Jonathon W. and Torbj?rn L. Knutsen  (2007) Ways of Knowing: Competing Methodologies in Social and Political Research. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Stuart, Alex (1998) The Ethnographer's Method. London: Sage.

Compendium

The following articles are available in a compendium that you can buy in the Kopiutsalg at Akademika bookshop, Blindern. Bring Student ID Card.

 

  • Bertaux, Daniel (1981) “From the Life-History Approach to the Transformation of Sociological Practice”, in Biography and Society: The Life History Approach in the Social Sciences. London: Sage, pp. 29-45.
  • Bruner, Jeremy  1990 “Acts of Meaning”, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, pp. 1-32
  • Fludernik, Monika (2009) An Introduction to Narratology. Routledge: London and New York, pp. 1-20
  • Foss, Sonja K. (1996), “Rhetorical Criticism: Exploration and Practice”, Long Grove: Waveland Press, pp. 3-33, 63-7, 121-32, 165-74, 225-37, 291-299, 357-67, 399-408, 455-63 and 483-88.
  • Geertz, Clifford (1973), Ch. 1 “Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture”and Ch. 15 “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight, ” in The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books, pp. 3-32 + 412-453. Chapter 1 is available in Fronter and 15 is available online for those who are not able to buy the compendium before the first lecture.
  • Lothe, Jacob. 2005. Narrative in Fiction and Film: An Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 11-48.
  • Lotman, Yuri (1990) “Semiotic Space” + “The Notion of Boundary,” in Universe of the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture. New York: I.B.Tauris & Co., pp. 123-142.
  • Witoszek, Nina (2012) “Enemies of Sustainability? The Empire of Vogue” in Bj?rkdahl, K and K. Nielsen (eds.) Development and Environment: Practices, Theories, Policies (2012) Oslo: Unipub (NB! Available in the SUM4200 Compendium)

 

Online articles

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