SOC-1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Gang Leader, Social Movement, Street People
12 Oct 2018
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What is the key to success with this experiement: earning the groups trust, participated in their routines and actions in order to learn more about them. Small-scale settings: passengers in an airplane, bars or taverns, battered women"s shelters, camera clubs, laundromats, social movement organizations, social welfare offices, television stations, waiting rooms. Occupations: airplane attendants, artists, dog catchers, gamblers, female strippers, restaurant chefs. Deviance and criminal activity: body/genital piercing and branding, drug dealers and addicts, hippies, occult groups, prostitutes, street people, homeless shelters. Ethnography - is an approach to field research that emphasizes providing a very detailed description of a different culture from the viewpoint. Public of an insider in that culture in order to permit a greater understanding of it: explicit knowledge (what we know and talk about, tacit knowledge (what we rarely acknowledge) The goal of the anthropologist, or ethnographer, is: "to grasp the native"s point of view, his relation to life, and realize her vision of her world"
