CENTRAL THEME:
Start with Benjamin’s essay on “Task of a translator.” Explore the themes invoked therein in the readings.
How To Do Type Texts (Selections From These)
Ethnographic Interview (Spradley)
Participant Observation (Spradley?)
Historical Research: An Outline of Theory and Practice
On Philology
Texts That also Serve As Examples (Reduce examples of ethnography and include examples of macro as well as comparative [...]
Filed under: Ethnography, Historical Sociology, Historiography, Imagination, Method, Philology, Rhetoric, Studying Human Experience, Translation
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Today, I realized that the folks whose work I enjoy reading call themselves historical sociologists. And then I realized after browsing for what seemed like an endless number of hours why I didn’t feel I like belonged with them. I belong only in as far as they study the same thing that I [...]
Filed under: Historical Sociology, Unit 3
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