17th Oct – Bryman’s social research methods certainly makes the anthropological approach seem very appealing.
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19th Oct – Kris has made it his mission to get me to not only understand but actually appreciate two papers written for sociologists rather than a popular audience. Urban Errands by Sarah Jain and The mutable Mobile by Geoff Cooper I’ve printed them both out, sat down with a dictionary and read them aloud so that I can’t nod off in the process.
Sian
20th Oct - oh er the papers make no sense what so ever but I did enjoy Sarah Lochlann Jain’s tale of the two woman and their lives. Bit surprised by the “choices” of Taz the New Yorker who seemed to spend all her life out and about buying drinks rather than ordering them by phone (reminds me of Nina’s story of engineers in the field telling researchers that the subjects of the study weren’t supposed to use the technology the way they did, and couldn’t the researcher’s explain that to them!).
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Sian
19th Oct – Kris has made it his mission to get me to not only understand but actually appreciate two papers written for sociologists rather than a popular audience. Urban Errands by Sarah Jain and The mutable Mobile by Geoff Cooper I’ve printed them both out, sat down with a dictionary and read them aloud so that I can’t nod off in the process.
Sian
20th Oct - oh er the papers make no sense what so ever but I did enjoy Sarah Lochlann Jain’s tale of the two woman and their lives. Bit surprised by the “choices” of Taz the New Yorker who seemed to spend all her life out and about buying drinks rather than ordering them by phone (reminds me of Nina’s story of engineers in the field telling researchers that the subjects of the study weren’t supposed to use the technology the way they did, and couldn’t the researcher’s explain that to them!).
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