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The emphasis of this course will be on participant observation and interviews in a fieldwork context (that is, research that takes place in the space and time of “subjects” rather than the observer). While the best way to learn a method is by doing, the pandemic is likely to make a practicum impossible this semester. Therefore, the course will be structured around reading classic or illustrative monographs and articles based on qualitative fieldwork, in both a US and global context. This will be supplemented with a smaller number of methodological texts to introduce different conceptions of science used or assumed by qualitative sociologists. We will also address practical skills like taking ethnographic fieldnotes.