Contexts Blog
by maria mcgarrity
This year marks the centenary celebration of Ireland’s Easter 1916 rebellion. The “Rising,” as it is called, took place on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916.
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by Grad Team
Politicians promise. Sociologists can help.
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by syed ali and philip cohen
Ethnographies are works of deep research based on in-depth, open-ended interviews and keen observations of how people go about their lives in different contexts. Researchers …
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by abigail e. cameron
A student submits an IRB application to study “media freedom” and the struggles of citizen journalists for her doctoral dissertation. The study methodology includes immersion …
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by dana r. fisher
A lot of my research studies political elites. As such, I am frequently conducting participant observation and open-ended, semi-structured interviews in the halls of the …
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by stefanie DeLuca, susan clampet-lundquist, and and kathryn edin
In the mid-1990s, the federal government launched a high-profile social experiment in five cities to determine if escaping concentrated neighborhood poverty could change the lives …
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by Kimberly Kay Hoang and Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
On January 3, 2009, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote an op-ed “If This Isn’t Slavery, What Is?” In it he described the …
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by annette lareau and aliya hamid rao
A key strength of in-depth interviews and ethnography is obtaining textured insights into social phenomenon. Yet, many qualitative researchers try to invoke the reliability of …
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by alexandra murphy and colin jerolmack
Demands for data transparency are sweeping across the social sciences. Calls for the sharing of survey instruments, code, databases, and even interview transcripts, have grown …
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by Carrie Clarady and Rose Malinowski Weingartner
Some of us here at Contexts Grad Team are big fans of podcasts. Here are our top picks.
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