Teaching GuideTerm
Faculty of Sociology
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Grao en Socioloxia
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  Ethnographic research methodology
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Methodologies Description
Guest lecture / keynote speech Explanation by the teacher of the contents of the subject. Under classroom conditions it will be taught in the classroom. It will be complemented with visual support materials - Power Point presentations, and with projections of ethnographic films. The objective of these sessions will be the knowledge, by the student, of the ethnographic techniques and methods and of the analysis of the cultural discourse, its utilities and applicability; as well as stimulating participatory debates. The student must attend at least 2/3 of the sessions.

In non-attendance conditions, the master sessions will be taught through online conferences through Teams, as well as questions and discussions, at the scheduled time for the subject. Summaries of each topic will also be provided by sending them in PDF documents by Moodle, once they have been delivered online.
Directed discussion Commentary and debate, during the second part of each session, of textual materials - magazine articles, book chapters, concerning the details, problems and practical application of different research techniques of ethnographic utility. The objective of the discussion will be the development by the student of a critical capacity and an awareness of cultural diversity, as well as the recognition of the complexity of sociocultural problems and the need to adapt ethnographic research instruments to specific case studies.

In conditions of non-attendance, the comment together with concept maps of the article prepared by the student, will be prepared in writing, and sent in PDF document and by Moodle to the teacher for evaluation, on the date on which the exposition of said student would have been assigned. -these are distributed throughout the semester-.
Supervised projects Sup. Project is conceived as a practical test that will be carried out throughout the course. It will consist of course work developed through the practice of participant or multi-sited observation, semi-structured interview, analysis of a case of popular narrative, and / or rehearsal of the recording and 'technical' interpretation of a life story. Its objective is that the student develop knowledge and skills in the basic projection of ethnographic research, in the use of fieldwork techniques, and exercise in the field in critically evaluating the knowledge, techniques and information available to solve problems. with which they must face.

In a non-attendance situation, supervised works based on interviews or life stories carried out in practice may be replaced by research project sketches with semi-structured interviews or life stories. In any case, written in digital document, they will be sent for evaluation by the teacher at the end of the semester
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