{"id":1491,"date":"2015-08-24T12:42:55","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T12:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ethnographicencounters\/?p=1491"},"modified":"2015-09-07T09:32:24","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T09:32:24","slug":"lang2005-course-outline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ethnographicencounters\/2015\/08\/24\/lang2005-course-outline\/","title":{"rendered":"LANG2005 Course Outline"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the course outline for the module LANG2005: Ethnography for Language Learners,<\/a> run by Dr Heidi Armbruster at the University of Southampton.<\/p>\n

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WEEK 1-\u00a0<\/strong>Introduction: What is an ethnographic approach?<\/strong><\/p>\n

You will be introduced to some of the fundamental principles of ethnography: ethnography as cultural learning, data as always interpreted in context, the notions of \u2018making strange\u2019 and reflexivity.<\/p>\n

WEEK 2 –\u00a0<\/strong>Non-verbal communication and social space<\/strong><\/p>\n

These concepts are used to introduce you to methods of observation, together with some anthropological studies of how people make meaning out of their use of space.<\/p>\n

WEEK 3 –\u00a0<\/strong>Shared cultural knowledge or \u2018Seeing the World\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

This week you will be introduced to the idea of ethnography as looking beneath the \u2018invisibility\u2019 of everyday life in order to make explicit patterns and regularities of a social context. We will address the idea of cultural analysis as \u2018thick description\u2019 and look into notions of \u2018classification\u2019 and \u2018meaning\u2019.<\/p>\n

WEEK 4 –\u00a0<\/strong>Material Culture<\/strong><\/p>\n

In this session we look into the relationship between material objects and social relations. Exploring our relations to the material world offers a perspective through which we can understand cultural and social attitudes, values and ideologies.<\/p>\n

WEEK 5 –\u00a0<\/strong>Education and Socialisation<\/strong><\/p>\n

This unit introduces you to the idea of secondary socialisation as an ongoing learning process, and approaches this through focusing on educational environments.<\/p>\n

WEEK 6 –\u00a0<\/strong>Families and households<\/strong><\/p>\n

We shall explore the idea of a family as a cultural construct and think about the meanings given to social relationships.<\/p>\n

WEEK 7 –\u00a0<\/strong>Local Level Politics<\/strong><\/p>\n

The central role that small \u2018p\u2019 politics plays in the formation and maintenance of social relations is discussed. This includes the notion of exchange, status, reputation and \u2018capitals\u2019.<\/p>\n

SUBMIT YOUR BOOK REVIEW (13 March 2013)<\/strong><\/p>\n

WEEK 8 –\u00a0<\/strong>Gender Identities<\/strong><\/p>\n

We shall investigate the ways in which \u2018gender\u2019 is culturally constructed and routinely accomplished through everyday interactions. We will also address how gender intersects with ethnicity and class.<\/p>\n

WEEK 9 –\u00a0<\/strong>Participant Observation and ethnographic interviewing<\/strong><\/p>\n

This session introduces one of the key methods of doing ethnography. We shall explore the tension between being a participant and being an observer and the problems of locating informants and taking fieldnotes. We shall rehearse techniques for informal and formal interviewing.<\/p>\n

EASTER BREAK –\u00a0<\/strong>Conduct your ethnographic project<\/strong><\/p>\n

WEEK 10<\/strong> –\u00a0Data Analysis<\/strong><\/p>\n

WEEK 11 –\u00a0<\/strong>Writing an Ethnographic Project<\/strong><\/p>\n

To help you prepare for your own \u2018home ethnography\u2019 we will consider what it means to \u2018write up\u2019 an ethnographic project<\/p>\n

WEEK 12 –\u00a0<\/strong>\u2018Home ethnography\u2019 presentations<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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