Training

Venue: Council for Social Development, New Delhi

Eligible participants: M.Phil, / Ph.D/ PDF / Other Research Scholars.

Course contents: Indian perspective on Social science methodology; theory and life debate (ankhindekhi/kagadlikhi); field view and text view;methods of qualitative research; selecting the field; the question of outsider and insider; selection of respondents; family tree and biographical notes of respondents; retrieving the memories; semi structured and un-structured interviews (Baat-se-baatmethod); focused group discussions (FGDs); capturing the silence, murmuring, half sentences; inclusion of left out resources (proverbs, folk stories and songs); content analysis; discourse analysis; visual representation of qualitative data; writing social stories; accessing library and archival resources; use of data in social sciences.