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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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1. Introduction: Culture and its anthropoligical description 2. Etnographic research and its usage to describe institutions, social groups and their cultures. 3. Communities related to Japan in Czechia 4. Respondents and research plan 5-6. Taxonomic categories and semantic structures in data analysis 7-8. Key words, themes, coding 9. Meaning interpretation, interviews 10. Principles of writing an etnographic text 11-12. Student presentations
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Observation, Analyzing and producing audiovisual content
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Learning outcomes
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A lecture and a seminar paying attention to mastering elementary knowledge of qualitative research focused on a specific community (subculture) related to contemporary Japanese society (sports, traditional arts, pop-art, videogames, business etc.). Using the methods of etnographic research (incl. interviews in Japanese), students can get to the heart of internal mechanisms of a particular social group or institution, and upon gathering data, they are able to demonstrate its holistic image.
Students learn to know the basis of qualitative research, methods of data gathering, techniques of interviews and treir transcripts, translation, analysis and interpretation. By the means of interviews with Japanese native speakers, students are able to define key words to describe a particular subculture and within the research process they deepen their knowledge of Japanese society.
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Prerequisites
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A course aimed at Japanese philology students.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Systematic Observation of Student, Final project
Active participation in lcass, presentation, final project.
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Recommended literature
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Kottmann and Reiher (eds.). Studying Japan: handbook of Research Designs, Fieldwork and Methods. 2020.
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McCurdy et al. (2005). The Cultural Experience. Ethnography in Complex Society. Long Grove.
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Weiss, Robert S. (1995). Learning from strangers the art and method of qualitative interview studies. New York.
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