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- Title
COMPUTING IN QUALITATIVE SOCIOLOGY.
- Authors
Becker, Howard S.
- Abstract
The article discusses the author's experience in teaching sociology with computers. The first class to which computer use was relevant was the course in fieldwork. Students are required to find someplace where people are doing things together and observe them, interview them, or both, and write down everything they see or hear. Precomputer, the author had to read the notes suggesting ways around problems of access, pointing out possible leads that ought to be followed up, and other things. If the students remembered to number their pages, he could refer to particular points in their notes by page number and did not write on their notes. With the advent of the computer lab, students wrote their notes on their own disks and then transferred them to his file. The author now wrote a longer comment suggesting some theoretical point using different typefaces and styles to comments in boldface type, easily spotted as students scrolled through their document once they got it back. He gave a lecture-demonstration on the use of database programs for analysis of field notes and showed students how to make such analyses using edge-punched cards.
- Subjects
SOCIOLOGY education; COMPUTER assisted instruction; SOCIAL sciences fieldwork; LECTURE method in teaching; TEACHING; EDUCATION
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 1986, Vol 9, Issue 1, p100
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00988252