Meeting on 2-27-07

Amy and I met today and discussed the exemplar book we will be reading and how we want to divy up chapters to read. We also then spent some time discussing the differences between contsructivism and interpretivism resolving that interpretivism seems to be more oriented toward questions of ontology and methodology whereas constructivism seems more focused on questions of epistemology. Both position themselves in relation to what they perceive as the faulty effort to bring natural science to social research. We then talked some about what it might mean to do research from an "emic" perspective or, whether, once you decide to "do" research you are no longer exclusively emic but etic as well.