Workshop

One week programme on Qualitative Methods in Social Sciences: Ethnography, Narratives and Social Stories

11-15 March 2019

Venue: Council for Social Development, Lodi Estate, New Delhi

Organized by Council for Social Development, New Delhi; G B Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad; & Anthropological Survey of India, Govt.. of India

Last Date of Application: 28 February 2019

Objectives

This workshop will critically examine the practices in social science researches on India society, which often miss out the nuances of social plurality. Most of the existing qualitative research methods are based on Western anthropology or ethnography, which have limitations for understanding Indian society that has some unique characteristics, apart from the plurality of caste and communities and diversities of regions. The purpose of this workshop is to provide a training in qualitative research methods to capture the pluralistic nature of Indian society. This workshop will orient the researchers to explore their own eyes to understand Indian society in the context of locale and indigenous veracity.

Training

Session 1: Understanding qualitative research and Specificities of Indian society

Session 2: Preparing the researcher for qualitative research and introducing different methods

Session 3: Selecting the field: deconstructing the debate of own society vs. others societies

Session 4: Relating with field: blurring the boundaries of outsider and insider

Session 5: Field research: selection of respondents; family tree and biographical notes of respondents; retrieving the memories; semi structured and un-structured interviews (Baat-se-baat methodology); focused group discussions (FGDs) to validate the facts and fill in the incomplete stories; field diary, notes and queries of observations; capturing the silence, murmuring, half sentences

Session 6: Data analysis: transcription; reading the field notes; inclusion of left out resources (proverbs, folk stories and songs); content analysis and discourse analysis; understanding the casteorality

Session 7: Visual representation of qualitative data

Session 8: How to write social stories

Course Contribution: Rs 3,000/- (three thousand) per participant for kit bag, course material, lunch and refreshment. The participants will have to make their own arrangements for accommodation.

Last Date for Nomination/application: 28 February 2019

Contact for further information or any clarification: Please contact: Dr. Susmita Mitra, Assistant Professor, Council for Social Development, 53 Lodi Estate (KK Birla Marg), New Delhi, 110003 | E-mail: susmita[@]csdindia.org Telephone: +91-11- 24615383 (ext 220) | Dr. Archana Singh, Assistant Professor, G B Pant Social Science Institute, archanaparihar[@]gmail.com

Further Details & Application Form