Description
You will be required to provide open-ended fieldnotes about your experience visiting the congregation and your interview/s during the semester. These will be detailed field notes that go over specific activities you are doing for the ethnographic component. The purpose of the fieldnotes is simply to collect as much data as possible about your chosen congregation of study and its relationship to the prison. Write down specific observations about this subject, key-quotes, and detailed insights about this particular subject. Save the analysis for memos you might write to yourself or the ethnography. You should write roughly 10 pages [or equivalent] of single-spaced typed pages for your notes. You will be graded on whether you have turned in these notes and the degree to which you captured relevant material pertaining to the congregation’s relationship to the prison.For additional guidance on Fieldnotes, see the tool, “Studying Faith: Qualitative Methodologies for Studying Religious Communities”: https://crcc.usc.edu/report/studying-faith-qualitative-methodologies-for-studying-religious-communities/ Or see Ashley Rubin’s chapter on Fieldnotes in Rocking Qualitative Social Science: An Irreverent Guide to Rigorous Research, Stanford, 2021, https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/17p22dp/alma9996802629506533
