Midterm 1: Readings Flashcards
The Active Skim: Efficient Reading as a Moral Challenge in Postgraduate Education
Hannah Wohl, Gary Alan Fine
What constitutes an appropriate set of reading?
Interviews of 36 graduate students
You need a healthy mixture of active skimming, a skill that needs to be developed (practical) and deep reading (ideal)
Behind the Data
Colby King
Not really a study, just says that people can be dicks or people can be nice when you’re gathering information so respect that
How to Do Ethnography Right
Essay collection
Always take legal precautions
Data transparency may often be important for further study, even though it is dangerous to share so much info
Don’t stereotype or draw from anecdotal evidence. EG the people in the barbershop who were perfectly happy, not hookers. They were just inventing narratives to get money from people
Changing Highbrow Taste: From Snob to Omnivore
Peterson and Kern
Are people becoming more omnivorous over time?
Survey of people’s music tastes with certain ones ranked as middle, high and low brow
People have become more omnivorous over time
Becoming a Marijuana User
Becker
Why do people start smoking marijuana?
Interviews of 50 marijuana users
People only start smoking when they realise that it is enjoyable
No Laughter among Thieves: Authenticity and the Enforcement of Community Norms in Stand-Up Comedy
Reilly
Why might observers label one social actor’s questionable act a norm violation even as they seem to excuse similar behaviour by others?
Participant- observer data on Los Angeles stand-up comics to explore the phenomenon of joke theft: interviews, ethnography, even did some stand up
Audiences are more generous to those they consider to be authentic
Code of the Tweet: Urban Gang Violence in a Social Media Age
Stuart
Is social media taunting really a cause of gang violence?
Ethnographic research on the south side of Chicago of gang affiliated people
Social media does not proliferate gang violence
