Hi All, I just wanted to share my experience in using the film, "Kitchen Stories"(2003) in my Methods class. The film is a Swedish/Norwegian film with subtitles and is wonderful (available from Amazon for about 13$).
Here are some of the methodological points brought up by the film: · an example of a positivistic epistemology applied to people · Great scenes of the lab and the experiments conducted there · But when trying to export that model to 'naturalistic' settings - nope · Scene where they tell the volunteers that they must not speak with, interact with observers - great example of positivism - of the objective observer · Volunteers: shows the difficulty in getting volunteers · The single farmer Isak volunteers because he misunderstands what he is to be offered. He thinks he is to receive a real horse in exchange for his participation; his compensation is actually a statue of a horse. This raises issues of why volunteers participate and how this might affect the results. · Behaviour and co-operation of participants: not going so well; Isak turning of lights, changing his behaviour so as not to be observed; wanting to know what the observer is recording · Observer: affected by Isak; goes out and buys chocolate; later actually starts to speak to Isak etc Anyway, it was such a nice change for the students to see research (although fictional). Judith --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Teaching Sociology" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/teachsoc -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
