Practicum in Applied Sociology

CONCEPTS FOR STUDY

Dr. Gary Welborn

For both SOC486 and SOC488, you need to develop an understanding of the meaning of each of the following concepts, as they are used in field research. Most of them will be discussed in class and are also in the readings in the Reading Packet. You will be asked to explain many of them on the test.

C. Wright Mills’s concepts
of “intellectual craftsmanship”

Qualitative/quantitative methods

Thick description

Key informant

Focus groups

Applied sociology

Ethnography

Positivism

Participant observation

Establishing rapport

Presentation of self

Sociological mindfulness

Field interviews

Main questions

Probe questions

Follow-up questions

Interview guide or protocol

Jotted field notes

Direct observation notes

Inference notes

Analytic notes

Sampling for field interviews

Images

Representations

Accounts