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240511 PR MM2 Ethnographic Explorations in Social Service (2024W)

10.00 ECTS (4.00 SWS), SPL 24 - Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
Continuous assessment of course work

The course can only be taken together with SE 240508 (5 ECTS) and you need to register for both courses.

Participation at first session is obligatory!

The lecturer can invite students to a grade-relevant discussion about partial achievements. Partial achievements that are obtained by fraud or plagiarized result in the non-evaluation of the course (entry 'X' in certificate). The plagiarism software 'Turnitin' will be used.
The use of AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT) for the attainment of partial achievements is only allowed if explicitly requested by the course instructor.
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Tu 28.01. 13:15-16:30 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 20 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 08.10. 13:15 - 16:30 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Tuesday 15.10. 13:15 - 16:30 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
  • Tuesday 22.10. 13:15 - 16:30 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Tuesday 05.11. 13:15 - 16:30 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Tuesday 26.11. 13:15 - 16:30 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Tuesday 17.12. 13:15 - 16:30 Sitzungs-/Prüfungszimmer, NIG 4. Stock
  • Tuesday 14.01. 13:15 - 16:30 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The Feldpraktikum can only be taken in conjunction with the Methodenseminar of the same title. The courses take place in joint sessions. Building on appropriate basic methodological knowledge in ethnographic fieldwork, the Feldpraktikum and the Methodenseminar aim to acquire consolidated practical skills in the field of empirical social research. In particular, the reflective development and implementation of a research project based on ethnographic fieldwork is practiced.
Thematically, we focus on socio-material structures, practices and meanings related to social services, understood to encompass a variety of community services aimed at promoting the well-being of individuals and communities, especially those who are disadvantaged and vulnerable. Such services are to be examined in their local and translocal contexts, as they exist in Vienna and the surrounding area. Current anthropological debates around care, bureaucracy and applied anthropology may serve as possible theoretical and thematic points of reference.
Within this broad thematic framework, students develop their own research project individually or in groups, depending on their own interests; the course instructor discusses exemplary research topics at the beginning of the course. On the basis of relevant literature and under the guidance of the course instructor, students develop a research concept, establish access to the relevant ethnographic field, collect ethnographic data, carry out initial data analysis and present the research findings in the form of interim presentations and a final research report.
Ethnographic fieldwork including participant observation is a central part of the Feldpraktikum/Methodenseminar and will take place in settings in and around Vienna.

Assessment and permitted materials

o Attendance and active participation, fieldwork in and around Vienna
o presentations of preliminary research results (10 points)
o research log (10 points)
o data collection (40 points)
o final research report (40 points)

AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT) may be used as “inspirational aids” and for reflecting on own original work after consulting with the course instructor, provided that the procedures and results are appropriately documented. In doing so, the rules of good scientific practice must be observed. Detailed guidelines for this will be discussed at the beginning of the course.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

A total of 100 points can be achieved for all partial achievements.

Grades:
91 - 100 points = 1 (sehr gut)
81 - 90 points = 2 (gut)
71 - 80 points = 3 (befriedigend)
61 - 70 points = 4 (genügend)
00 - 60 points = 5 (nicht genügend)

Examination topics

Mandatory literature

Reading list

Ballestero, Andrea & Brit Ross Winthereik, Eds. (2021). Experimenting With Ethnography: A Companion to Analysis. Durham, Duke University Press.
Emerson, Robert M., Rachel I. Fretz & Linda L. Shaw (1995). Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes. Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press.
Huschke, Susann (2014). "Performing deservingness: Humanitarian health care provision for migrants in Germany." Social Science & Medicine 120: 352-359.
Kleinman, Arthur & Joan Kleinman (1991). "Suffering and its professional transformation: Toward an ethnography of interpersonal experience." Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 15: 275-301.
Konopinski, Natalie, Ed. (2014). Doing Anthropological Research: A Practical Guide. London, Routledge.
Thelen, Tatjana & Cati Coe (2019). "Political belonging through elderly care: Temporalities, representations and mutuality." Anthropological Theory 19(2): 279-299.
Whyte, Reynolds Susan, Michael A. Whyte, Lotte Meinert & Jenipher Twebaze (2013). Therapeutic Clientship: Belonging in Uganda's Projectified Landscape of AIDS Care. In: J. o. G. Biehl & A. Petryna, When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health. Princeton, Princeton University Press: 140-165.
Pfeilstetter, Richard (2017). "Anthropology and Social Work: Engagement with humans, moral dilemmas and theories of difference." European Journal of Social Work 20(2): 167-178.

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