Course Title:
Urban Poverty: The Ethnographic Perspective
Course Description:
Explores the complex topic of urban poverty through the lens of ethnography. Each week students are required to read a selected ethnographic text and consider its contributions-theoretical and methodological-to the ongoing dialogue within sociology concerning the causes, consequences, and individual experiences of poverty in America’s inner cities. Arranged thematically, seminar discussions are necessarily iterative, as we revisit issues introduced at different points throughout the syllabus. While this is not intended to be a methods course, one of its key objectives is to encourage students to think critically about the choice of methodology and research design in each of the texts we study. The course explores how such choices influence both the author’s substantive claims, as well as the reader’s understanding of those claims.
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