SOCI 373

Critical Research Strategies

Units: 1.5, Hours: 3-0

An examination both of how power shapes social knowledge and of strategies and techniques for conducting social research in the context of social justice initiatives. Approaches examined may include dialectical analysis, participatory action research, institutional ethnography, feminist methods, critical discourse analysis and the pursuit of public sociology.

Prerequisites:

Undergraduate course in Sociology offered by the Department of Sociology in the Faculty of Social Sciences.