Ethnographic Perspectives for Psychosocial Research and Intervention
Code: 45426 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 4313402 Psychosocial Research and Intervention | OT | 0 |
Contact
- Name:
- Maria Beatriz San Roman Sobrino
- Email:
- beatriz.sanroman@uab.cat
Teachers
- Miquel Domenech Argemi
- Joan Pujol Tarres
- Joel Feliu Samuel Lajeunesse
- Joan Moya Kohler
- Marta Padrós Castells
- Isabel Pellicer Cardona
Teaching groups languages
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Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course.
Objectives and Contextualisation
This course aims to ensure that students who take it understand and delve into ethnographic practice in the field of psychosocial research and intervention.
Specific objectives are as following:
- Understand the foundations of ethnographic practice within the field of research and psychosocial intervention.
- Design research or interventions adapted to specific fields using ethnographic methodologies.
- Know and apply specific techniques for gathering information inherent to ethnography, including autoethnography, drifts, virtual ethnography, and performative ethnography.
- Develop ethnographic writing skills to effectively document and communicate fieldwork findings.
Learning Outcomes
- CA10 (Competence) Design an ethnographic research proposal or psychosocial diagnosis that takes a gender and intersectional perspective into account.
- CA11 (Competence) Technically and temporally plan ethnographic material collection procedures adapted to the characteristics and needs of a specific population.
- KA11 (Knowledge) Organise methods, techniques and tools for collecting psychosocial data using ethnographic techniques.
- KA12 (Knowledge) Identify ethical and political debates arising from the application of an ethnographic perspective to psychosocial research or intervention.
- KA13 (Knowledge) Select techniques to analyse empirical material in a justifiable manner from an ethnographic perspective.
- KA14 (Knowledge) Identify techniques to analyse ethnografic material in a justifiable manner.
- SA08 (Skill) Present the methodology of a psychosocial research or diagnosis with an ethnographic perspective, justifying the procedural proposal bibliographically.
- SA09 (Skill) Improve the design of a research project or intervention with a community perspective within a working group.
Content
- Review of the main perspectives of ethnographic study.
- Social processes analyzed from the ethnographic perspective.
- Critical perspectives in ethnographic research.
- The field diary: principles, uses, and examples.
- Techniques for collecting ethnographic data: observation, participant observation, and participation in the field of study.
- Ethnographic writing.
- Ethnography, autoethnography, virtual ethnography, and drifts.
Activities and Methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Lectures and group discussions | 24 | 0.96 | CA10, CA11, KA11, KA12, KA13, KA14, SA08, SA09 |
| Presentatios | 6 | 0.24 | CA10, KA11, KA13, KA14, SA08, SA09 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Tutoring sessions | 7 | 0.28 | CA10, CA11, KA12, SA08 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Preparation of tasks. Reading articles/reports of interest. Personal study. | 113 | 4.52 | CA10, CA11, KA11, KA12, KA13, KA14, SA08, SA09 |
The teaching methodologies may combine the following forms of work: seminars and lectures, individual and group tutorials, elaboration and development of exercises, project presentations, reading of articles and/or relevant reports, and personal study.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Assessment
Continous Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ev1: Final assignment | 50% | 0 | 0 | CA10, CA11, KA11, KA12, KA13, KA14, SA08 |
| Ev2: Group assignment | 30% | 0 | 0 | CA10, KA11, KA13, KA14, SA09 |
| Ev3: Learning monitoring | 20% | 0 | 0 | CA10, CA11, KA11, KA12, KA13, KA14, SA08, SA09 |
This course is assessed based on three pieces of evidence:
Ev1. Final Report (50% of the grade): Individual final project where the design and methodology of the Master's Final Project will be outlined. In the case of the psychosocial intervention pathway, this research will be directed towards intervention, either in the form of diagnosis or needs analysis, or PAR (Participatory Action Research). This final project will be the same as that submitted in any of the other two optional subjects (A3a: “Discursive Perspectives for Psychosocial Research and Intervention” or A3c: “Group and Community Perspectives for Psychosocial Research and Intervention”). That is, the same work will be assessed from two subjects based on each of the corresponding rubrics and will, therefore, have two grades: one for each subject from which it is assessed.
Ev2. Group Work (30% of the grade): Group exercise on the application of the techniques worked on in the subject. This exercise will take the form of a public presentation in class, on the date previously indicated by the teacher.
Ev3. Learning Monitoring (20% of the grade): Monitoring of the final project of the subject with the tutor teacher and achievement of the learning outcomes of the subject. It includes the planning of the final project, the review of the draft, and the review of the final version (in all cases provided that it is submitted at least ten days before the delivery date marked on Moodle).
SINGLE ASSESSMENT: The single assessment will be presented on the same day as the individual final project of the subject. The contents will be assessed under similar conditions of format and authorship (individual or collective), through the submission and/or presentation of evidence Ev1 and Ev2.
GRADING: Passed subject: It will be considered passed if the student obtains an average grade of 5 or higher in all assessment tests. Assessable: It will be considered assessable if the student has submitted learning evidence with a weight equal to or greater than 40% of the total subject. Not assessable: It will be considered not assessable if the weight of the evidence submitted is less than 40% of the total subject.
Reassessment: There is no reassessment for this subject.
Faculty of Psychology Assessment Guidelines: https://www.uab.cat/web/estudiar/graus/graus/avaluacions-1345722525858.html.
Bibliography
Adams, T. E., & Herrmann, A. F. (2023). Good Autoethnography. Journal of Autoethnography, 4(1), 1-9.
Agar, M. (1996). The professional stranger: an informal introduction to ethnography (2nd ed). San Diego: Academic Press.
Alexander, B. K. (2013). Etnografía performativa: La representación y la incitación de la cultura. En Las estrategias de investigación cualitativa: Manual de investigación cualitativa Vol. III (pp. 94-153). Barcelona: Gedisa.
Apud Peláez, I. E. (2013). Repensar el método etnográfico: hacia una etnografía multitécnica, reflexiva y abierta al diálogo interdisciplinario. ANTÍPODA. Revista de Antropología y Arqueología, (16), 213-235.
Ardèvol, E.; Bertrán, M.; Callén, B. & Pérez, C. (2003). Etnografía virtualizada: la observación participante y la entrevista semiestructurada en línea. Athenea Digital, 1(3), 72–92.
Denzin, N. K. & Lincoln, Y. S. (coords.). (1994/2013). Manual de investigación cualitativa. Barcelona: Gedisa.
Ellis, C., Adams, T. E., & Bochner, A. P. (2015). Autoetnografía: un panorama. Astrolabio, (14), 249-273.
Emerson, R. M., Fretz, R. I., & Shaw, L. L. (1995). Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Goodall, H. L. (2001). Writing the New Ethnography. Qualitative Research, 1(1), 111-114.
Hammersley, M., & Atkinson, P. (2009). Etnografía: Métodos de investigación. Barcelona: Paidós Ibérica.
Hine, C. (2004). Etnografía virtual. Barcelona: UOC.
Østern, T. P., Jusslin, S., Nødtvedt Knudsen, K., Maapalo, P., & Bjørkøy, I. (2023). A performative paradigm for post-qualitative inquiry. Qualitative Research, 23(2), 272-289. https://doi.org/10.1177/14687941211027444
Pellicer, I, Rojas, J.., & & Vivas, P. (2012). La deriva: una técnica de investigación psicosocial acorde con la ciudad contemporánea. Boletín de Antropología Universidad de Antioquia, 27(44), 144-163.
Pellicer, I., Vivas-Elias, P., & Rojas, J. (2013). La observación participante y la deriva: dos técnicas móviles para el análisis de la ciudad contemporánea. El caso de Barcelona. EURE (Santiago), 39(116), 119-139.
Ropert, M. T., Pinto de Carvalho, L., & Pellicer, I. (2022). Micropolíticas del movimiento: aportes metodológicos desde la investigación cualitativa crítica. Anuario de Psicología/The UB Journal of Psychology, 52(1).
Van Maanen, J. (2011). Tales of the field: on writing ethnography (2nd ed). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Wolcott, H. F. (2008). Ethnography: a way of seeing (2nd ed). Lanham: Altamira Press.
Software
This course promotes the use of free software for ethical and political reasons. We recommend that students use free tools.
Language list
| Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (TEm) Theory (master) | 1 | Spanish | first semester | afternoon |