SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Autoethnography, Bell Hooks
31 Oct 2016
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A more critical orientation to popular culture. How popular culture can be a site of reproduction and resistance. How our relationships to popular culture texts changes over time. How the meanings of texts can shift at different moments of our life. Auto-ethnography is a form of qualitative research in which an author uses self-reflection and writing to explore their personal experience and connect this autobiographical story to wider cultural, political and social meanings and understandings. Cultural artifacts as resource that we draw upon in our everyday lives. It is possible to tell the story of your life through popular culture. Mass culture can be oriented to as a repertoire of texts that we can then reproduce, refused and resist. We are the active creators of meaning and those meanings are not determined at the level of production (fiske) The truth about stories is that that is all we are (thomas king)
