300126 Der Arenenansatz in der empirischen Forschung (S) (SoSe 2005)

This Seminar, carried out in English language, aims at strengthening the conceptual tools in on-going empirical research, preferably for those students who are planning field research or who have already completed the phase of data collection. Through common reading of texts, the inter-related approaches of social interfaces, social arena and social field, strategic groups as well as the multi-stakeholder approach will be discussed and elaborated upon. Those students are invited to attend who are planning to use these conceptual tools in their on-going research.

Requirements for participation, required level

completed introductory courses in social anthropology and in sociology of development; having attended several specialised courses in the field of social anthropology and sociology of development

Bibliography

Long, N. (2001): Development sociology: actor perspectives. London; New York, Routledge.

Bailey, F. G. (1969): Stratagems and spoils: a social anthropology of politics. Oxford, Blackwell.

Bierschenk, T. and J.-P. O. d. Sardan (1997): ECRIS: Rapid Collective Inquiry for the Identification of Conflicts and Strategic Groups. Human Organization 56(2): 238-244

Berner, E. (1995): Networks, Strategies and Resistance: A Critique and Reformulation of Strategic Groups Analysis. Working Papers 218. Bielefeld, SDRC.
http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/sdrc/publications/working_papers/WP218.PDF

Evers, H.-D. and T. Schiel (1988): Strategische Gruppen: vergleichende Studien zu Staat, Bürokratie und Klassenbildung in der Dritten Welt. Berlin, Reimer.

Evers, H.-D. (1999): Globale Macht zur Theorie der Strategischen Gruppen. Working Paper 322. Bielefeld, SDRC.
http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/sdrc/publications/working_papers/wp322.pdf