Reading list

Methodology in Global Studies

Metod inom Globala studier

Course
GS1311
First cycle
15 credits (ECTS)

About the Reading list

Valid from
Autumn semester 2026 (2026-08-31)
Decision date
2026-06-15

Books

Boréus, K., & Bergström, G. (2018). Textens mening och makt: Metodbok i samhällsvetenskaplig text- och diskursanalys. Lund: Studentlitteratur. (ca 440 sidor)

Bryman, Alan (2018). Samhällsvetenskapliga metoder. Stockholm: Liber. (ca 880 sidor)

Godfrey-Smith, Peter. (2021). Theory and reality: An introduction to the philosophy of science. Second edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Book chapters

Buch-Hansen, Hubert and Peter Nielsen (2020) Critical realism: Basics and beyond. Bloomsbury. (Chapters 3-4).

Creswell, John H. & Creswell David J.(2022). Research design: Qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods approaches. Sixth edition. Sage. (Chapters 5-9).

Diez, Ddavid, Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel and Christopher Barr (2019) OpenIntro Statistics, Fourth edition. LeanPub. https://www.openintro.org/book/os/ (Chapters 1-4, 8).

Eliasson, Annika (2018). Kvantitativ metod från början. Kapitel 3: Samla in kvantitativa data (s. 33-64). Lund: Studentlitteratur. (ca. 31 sidor).

Kvale, Steinar & Brinkmann, Svend (2014). Den kvalitativa forskningsintervjun. Kapitel 4 Etiska frågor kring intervjuande (s. 97-114). Lund: Studentlitteratur. (ca. 17 sidor)

Smith, Linda T. (2021) Decolonizing methodologies: Research and Indigenous peoples. Third edition. Bloomsbury. (Chapter 1).

Sousa, Filipe J. (2010) Metatheories in research: Positivism, postmodernism, and critical realism. In Organization culture: Business-to-business relationships, and interfirm networks, edited by Arch G. Woodside. Emerald Group Publishing.

Articles

Haraway, Donna (1988) Situated knowledges: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective. Feminist studies 14(3): 575-599.

Shah, Alpa (2018) Ethnography? Participant observation, a potentially revolutionary praxis. Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7(1): 45-59.

Wall, Georgia (2018) Looking not for Truth, but Meaning: An introduction to ethnography with Professor Marion Demossier and Dr. Margaret Hill de Zárate. Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal 5(2): 15-25.