SOS6.4.1/SOS6.4 Feminist Methodology, 5 ECTS

Lectures: Tuesdays 12-14, 4 September - 13 November 2012. NB Place: Main building, room A32 (25.9.-13.11.) (The course will be videoed to the University of Jyväskylä).

No enrolment.

Objectives: The course will deepen the students´ knowledge about feminist epistemology and methodology. The students will understand the central discussions of situating knowledge and the meaning of experience and commitment in relation to knowledge. The students can relate the readings of empirical research to larger debates on knowing and apply this to their own studies.

Modes of study: Active participation in the lectures and a lecture diary.

The lecture diary may be written in Finnish or in English.
Program:

4.9. Lecturer Jaana Kuusipalo (TaY): “Introduction to the course”
11.9. Lecturer Taina Kinnunen (TaY): "Construction of interview material through interacting bodies"
18.9. Lecturer Kirsti Lempiäinen (University of Lapland): “Methodological reflexivity: Discussing feminist frames in interview research”
25.9. Dr. Astrida Neimanis (LSE): "Donna Haraway’s 'Situated Knowledges"
2.10. Dr. Astrida Neimanis (LSE): "Nature, Culture and Feminist Methodology”
9.10. Lecturer Minna Nikunen (TaY): "Membership categorization analysis"

16.10. No lecture

23.10. Professor Päivi Korvajärvi (TaY): “Interdisciplinarity as a Methodological Question”
30.10. Lecturer Elina Penttinen (TaY): “Posthumanism”

6.11. PhD. Eira Juntti (University of Jyväskylä): Methodological debates on the histories of gender”
13.11. Dr. Tuula Juvonen (TaY): “Queer Feminist Methodology”

Teacher responsible
Jaana Kuusipalo
Jaana.Kuusipalo@uta.fi

Teaching
4-Sep-2012 – 13-Nov-2012

SOS6.4.1/SOS6.4 Feminist Methodology, 5 ECTS

Lectures: Tuesdays 12-14, 4 September - 13 November 2012. NB Place: Main building, room A32 (25.9.-13.11.) (The course will be videoed to the University of Jyväskylä).

No enrolment.

Objectives: The course will deepen the students´ knowledge about feminist epistemology and methodology. The students will understand the central discussions of situating knowledge and the meaning of experience and commitment in relation to knowledge. The students can relate the readings of empirical research to larger debates on knowing and apply this to their own studies.

Modes of study: Active participation in the lectures and a lecture diary.

The lecture diary may be written in Finnish or in English.
Program:

4.9. Lecturer Jaana Kuusipalo (TaY): “Introduction to the course”
11.9. Lecturer Taina Kinnunen (TaY): "Construction of interview material through interacting bodies"
18.9. Lecturer Kirsti Lempiäinen (University of Lapland): “Methodological reflexivity: Discussing feminist frames in interview research”
25.9. Dr. Astrida Neimanis (LSE): "Donna Haraway’s 'Situated Knowledges"
2.10. Dr. Astrida Neimanis (LSE): "Nature, Culture and Feminist Methodology”
9.10. Lecturer Minna Nikunen (TaY): "Membership categorization analysis"

16.10. No lecture

23.10. Professor Päivi Korvajärvi (TaY): “Interdisciplinarity as a Methodological Question”
30.10. Lecturer Elina Penttinen (TaY): “Posthumanism”

6.11. PhD. Eira Juntti (University of Jyväskylä): Methodological debates on the histories of gender”
13.11. Dr. Tuula Juvonen (TaY): “Queer Feminist Methodology”

Teacher responsible
Jaana Kuusipalo
Jaana.Kuusipalo@uta.fi

Teaching
4-Sep-2012 – 13-Nov-2012

Introduction during the COSOPO Intensive Programme in Tampere, afterwards workshops and pair work supported by Moodle. Two seminar papers.

Compensates SOSM5.1 (Sosiaalitieteen tutkimusmenetelmät).

Some places available for Master's level exchange students. Please contact Ms. Anna Tuusa, anna.tuusa (at) uta.fi

Introductory lectures and excersices during the COSOPO Intensive Programme in Tampere, afterwards workshops and pair work supported by Moodle. Readings, independent work, excersices and an essay.

Compensates SOSM5.1 (Sosiaalitieteen tutkimusmenetelmät).

Some places available for Master's level exchange students. Please contact Ms. Anna Tuusa, anna.tuusa (at) uta.fi

In-depth focus on a selection of historical and contemporary theoretical concepts in social and cultural anthropology.

Contents

1. Functionalism and Cultural Materialism (Malinowski; White)
2. Social Structure (Radcliffe-Brown; Leach; Lévi-Strauss)
3. Structural Analysis (Lévi-Strauss)
4. Capital and Power in Western Anthropology (Weber; Wolf)
5. Theory of Practice (Bourdieu)
6. Interpretation and Ethnography (Geertz; Gupta and Ferguson)

The course is full, enrolment is nomore posible.

Korvaa kohdan SOSA.1.1 vanhasta tutkintorakenteesta.

Introduction during the COSOPO Intensive Programme in Tampere, afterwards workshops and pair work supported by Moodle. Two seminar papers.

Compensates SOSM5.1 (Sosiaalitieteen tutkimusmenetelmät).

Some places available for Master's level exchange students. Please contact Ms. Anna Tuusa, anna.tuusa (at) uta.fi

Introductory lectures and excersices during the COSOPO Intensive Programme in Tampere, afterwards workshops and pair work supported by Moodle. Readings, independent work, excersices and an essay.

Compensates SOSM5.1 (Sosiaalitieteen tutkimusmenetelmät).

Some places available for Master's level exchange students. Please contact Ms. Anna Tuusa, anna.tuusa (at) uta.fi

In-depth focus on a selection of historical and contemporary theoretical concepts in social and cultural anthropology.

Contents

1. Functionalism and Cultural Materialism (Malinowski; White)
2. Social Structure (Radcliffe-Brown; Leach; Lévi-Strauss)
3. Structural Analysis (Lévi-Strauss)
4. Capital and Power in Western Anthropology (Weber; Wolf)
5. Theory of Practice (Bourdieu)
6. Interpretation and Ethnography (Geertz; Gupta and Ferguson)

The course is full, enrolment is nomore posible.

Korvaa kohdan SOSA.1.1 vanhasta tutkintorakenteesta.