Sociology 2206A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Skid Row, General Idea, Body Language
17 Feb 2017
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Create a general mental pic for the setting. Formulate and focus questions about the setting. Is this something we can figure out by watching or talking to people. Decide what to measure within the setting. Goffman got a job as a staff member at an asylum for his research on asylums. Humphreys sex in public washroom watched them no other way to get the information back then. Karp studied adult book stores by pretending to be a customer. Wiseman second hand clothing stores and looked if people interacted differently at second hand stores than regular stores. Most of these people were already hanging out in the places they were gunna study. Lauder covert participation in neo nazi organizations he wanted to find out what these people were all about. Huey skid row what life is like there so she hung out there for a few years. Atkinson tattoo culture, hung out in tattoo parlours.
