Center for the Study of Law and Society
Miniseries in Empirical Research Methods
Friday, April 24, 2009, 9 a.m. – 12 noon. Lunch to follow.
Michael Musheno
Department of Criminal Justice Studies
San Francisco State University
and
Distinguished Affiliated Scholar
Center for the Study of Law and Society
University of California, Berkeley
What does a story look like as a point of data in qualitative fieldwork? Why collect stories in the field and how do you do it? How does story research come together with socio-legal framing and conceptualizing? How does one systematically analyze stories in context? What does telling stories look like as scholarly practice consonant with the interpretative turn in socio-legal studies? How does story research come into tension with getting grants and publishing results? How does one position story research for successful review and acceptance by key gatekeepers? What innovative channels exist for disseminating story research that may be less accessible when doing more traditional data-based work? What does the scholar owe the storytellers in telling the scholarly story? The workshop will focus on these questions and feature a multi-media memoir of doing story research which includes attention to various forms of story data and issues of triangulation.