Weekly Research Logs – hgraham – Sociology 3010b

- Between weeks 8 and 12, each student should provide a weekly reflection (500 words) on the data you have collected to date.
  - What data did you collect?
  - What is your initial impression of the data?
  - How have the data you have collected this week changed/progressed your thinking about your research project?
  - What challenges did you encounter while collecting the data?
  - What are your next steps?

Log 1

This week I changed my research project by narrowing it to one institution, the University of Southern Maine. I have...

Log 2

This week I have combed through academic literature using key terms like ‘marketization’, ‘commodification’, ‘financialization’, ‘managerialism’, and higher education. I...

Log 3

This week, I finally heard back from one of my sources. I scheduled an interview for early next week. However,...

Log 4

This week I officially scheduled two interviews. One of them is Friday morning and the other is early next week....

Log 5

This week I interviewed Susan Feiner. More recently, Susan was painted as a rogue professor after she offered a ‘pop...

Log 6

This week I started preparing the in-class presentation. I have a PowerPoint with images from many news outlets who took...

Log 7

I finally found access to the literature that I needed to access thanks to Beth Hoppe. In addition, I finished transcribing...