SSH 301 Lecture Notes - Erving Goffman, William Foote Whyte, Ethnography

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Sciences and Humanities
• Course: SSH 301
• Professor: Tonya Davidson

Document Summary

Ethnography: if you are going to breach a guideline it must be worth it and there must be a minimal amount of harm inflicted. -> writing about culture, text written about culture; encompass a lot of different strategies. -> understood to be valid because ethnographers spend a large amount of time in the field they are studying. -> try to get an inside of view of who they are studying and try to understand how people are making sense of their own cultures. Stanely milgram: why do seemingly normal people evil things. > how pain works as a motivator for his research study (he made participants inflict electric shock on actors that pretended to be in pain) > participants came to school and divided them into jail guards and prisoners. Martineau: first female sociologist, wrote how to observe morals and manners, she stresses that ethnographers are radically distinct from tourists.