Here goes - my first ever blog posting!
This one is more of a general "information is awesome" type of post. Elison and I have just discovered that not only do we have three out of four courses in common this semester, but we're both from Moscow, and we both moved to Canada at about 16-17, around the same year.
I just thought it was really neat, and, as Elison observed, a great example of how information can bring people together!
This one is more of a general "information is awesome" type of post. Elison and I have just discovered that not only do we have three out of four courses in common this semester, but we're both from Moscow, and we both moved to Canada at about 16-17, around the same year.
I just thought it was really neat, and, as Elison observed, a great example of how information can bring people together!
That is just too crazy of a coincidence!
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ReplyDeleteI can't publish a real post because I don't think I'm a contributor (can someone please fix this!). Like Polina, here goes my first blog posting.
I’m not sure how I feel about "Salsa Dancing in the Social Sciences" yet. My background is in English and History. I don’t have a problem with her methods, but I think I am having difficulty relating because of my academic background. I’ve never really had to worry about ‘current’ events because I lived the past year of my life immersing myself in the 19th-century American South writing a major research project. A lot of the research methods Luker describes in her text don’t apply to the ways I had to conduct my research, especially the surveys (although if I could have resurrected some southerners to survey them, it would have made finding the ‘truth’ a little easier).
However, I recognize that if I am to be a research professional, I can’t keep living in the 19th century: instead, I will need to understand methods that are done with people who are alive, and how to “salsa dance” in the literature, and the methods of the 21st-century.
Hi Laura! As a fellow English student, I share some of your feelings! I feel like the focus on the social sciences is a bit of a barrier to those of us with backgrounds residing primarily in the humanities. Like you, my past research rarely involved current events, and I sometimes have difficulty seeing how I fit into the body of students Luker addresses. I'm glad to have something in common with you! Hopefully our blog posts will help each other out a bit more than reading alone!
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ReplyDeleteYes, I wonder if one must do some "live" research if one were to be a research professional. It certainly seems to me that there are some disciplines (English and history are the first that come to mind, for certain) where some topics don't lend themselves at all to methods like surveying or action research. If your topic is something like "feminist undercurrents in 15th century popular songs", whom would you interview? Perhaps that's because it's not "social sciences" per se?
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