Test 1 Flashcards
Dude Article - Who uses it? In what situations?
Men use it in conversations with other men, and with women they’re not attracted to. Women use it with few men, and with women when confronting, commanding authority with a barrier, and commiserating an unfortunate situation.
Dude Article - To accomplish what? Why is it necessary? How is it limiting (esp. for men?) [Use of “Dude”]
Individuals use “dude” as an address, exclamation, a greeting, or a reprimand. Men especially use it to signify a camaraderie and cool solidarity.
Cool solidarity:
the use of “dude” conveys an individual’s familiarity or comfort with another speaker, while also highlighting the lack of intimacy
Hegemonic masculinity
most powerful form of masculinity in a certain situation
Stance indicator
demonstrates your position/stance to people what you believe (vs. what you want your audience to see – framing)
Address term:
name, title, nickname; i.e. dude, man, etc.
Disfluency:
when someone stutters while speaking
Framing device:
used to set the tone; how to take what you say; using a word to help listeners how to interpret the conversation (i.e. no offense)
Indexicality
particular terms point to a particular meaning
Fresas/Norteños - Homegirls
Description: Rock en Espanol, “Jocks,” Urban, middle/upper class, less Spanish, “Rebellious”
Piporros/Sureños - Homegirls
Banda, not “jocks,” Rural, lower class jobs, more Spanish, “Good girls”
Ethnography - Homegirls
study/writing about people by analyzing their speech and communication patterns.
Observer’s paradox - Homegirls
we want to be able to observe a phenomenon but it’s difficult for people to act normally if you observe them.
Prop 187 - Homegirls
“Save Our State” – sought the denial of social services to undocumented immigrants; public education and Medicaid were the main targets of the proposition, also well-baby care, emergency room visits, and school lunches.
Fieldnotes - Homegirl
detailed description of what happened including what was said, who was there, how things happened, etc.
Jottings - Homegirls
key components, descriptions not evaluations, concrete details and talk
Memos - Homegirls
your feelings/impressions of an event/action/response/etc when analyzing people/a place/etc
Subjective/Objective - Homegirls
with perspectives relative to the ethnographer/factual and without impressions
Halfie - Homegirls
an individual of mixed cultural groups, strattling identities; an ethnographer is not fully in the community because he/she is taking notes and recording – always a halfie
Gang-fans - Homegirls
not members of the gangs but represent them in smaller/localized fights; younger students that are not directly affiliated with the gang members; similar to being a sports fan by claiming the same clothes and colors, but not actual gang members
Structural issues at the school – how does this affect the identities and relationships of the people there? - Homegirls
California Educational Codes: couldn’t go to college because the students were placed in the ESL courses, which stunted their progress in High School
Prop 187 affected students of SJHS
Cafeteria: lunch areas
Chiquita Banana + Copacabana – what does this have to do with MD as an ethnographer? How does she find her RQ? - Homegirls
- MD’s gender, class, and ethnic standpoint give her a specific standpoint that is entirely subjective. Chiquita Banana was the example of a teacher walking by the Fresas and calling them CBs, which triggered a memory from MD’s childhood. Looking back on her field notes, she understands that the teacher’s reference to CB paralleled her classmates’ taunting through singing Copacabana to her
How does she find her RQ? - Homegirls
- MD saw the writing on the bathroom walls, she finally saw the differences in the gangs, how they represent themselves, developed the question over time because she initially wanted to look at language acquisition
Know the three clowning examples: Coffee, Zit, Paul - Homegirls
- Coffee: When MD invites T-Rex for coffee, she makes fun of MD’s drinking habit because it’s for white girls. She makes fun of her for acting like a white girl. This is a way of getting closer to one another and poking fun at how different they are.
- Zit: When MD tries to interfere a “conflict” with comments about her own zits, the girls take the opportunity to make fun of her also. In a way, clowning can make you understand that you’re all connected by this humor. You have a shared knowledge that clowning should not be taken seriously or offensively.
- Paul: The girls pick up Paul on the way back from the UCSC movie festival. They immediately begin asking him questions about his sex-life, poking fun that he’s a college boy, and making him uncomfortable. MD brings up later that they shouldn’t make fun of people outside of their circles because those individuals don’t share the knowledge about clowning and it can be taken out of hand. They could be perceived as crazy, insulting young girls.
Saturation (research term for qualitative work) - Cameron:Ho, et al.
when students are turning up evidence of the same communication patterns over and over again, they may have found a good pattern to develop in their papers, saturating their need for information in the term projects/papers; no longer turning up new information
Know some of the rationale for why we do this project, how it is an LSI project, and why we record? - Cameron: Ho, et al.
To transform the everyday world into an explicit communicative practice. We can further understand the smaller details of a conversation we take for granted. There’s a different “hearing” or “vision” to every interaction, which allows us to analyze the communicative patterns of certain social/cultural groups.
Research checklist: 3 things to consider w/every research project – could you point out ethical problems w/ a study? - Cameron: Ho, et al.
- *GO INTO DEPTH ABOUT EACH
- Informed Consent
- Pseudonames: privacy and indentifying information
- Right to leave things out – both you and them
Grammar circle (inside/outside) - Agar “Culture Blends”
inside of the circle mainly consists of grammar, conjugations, etc.; outside refers to the cultural meaning and the field experience the words come from
Hopper’s Shibboleth schema - Agar, Culture Blends
biases in a listener’s habits; i.e. how do we regard different accents, think of doctors and parents
Deficit theory of culture - Agar, Culture Blends
one way is better; i.e. I hate how you chew your gum
Equality theory of culture - Agar, Culture Blends
two different systems; i.e. going on vacation, expecting differences
