UBST 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Edge City, Essentialism, Ibm Officevision
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Ethnography: a methodology, primacy of experience and direct contact, sometimes an outsider perspective immersed in another culture, group, etc. Informs analysis of other social categories or identities (e. g. race, class, religion: feminist shift from women to gender (cid:396)efle(cid:272)ts (cid:396)e(cid:272)og(cid:374)itio(cid:374) that (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:859)s li(cid:448)es a(cid:396)e constrained by societal norms of entitlements permissible to woman as a biological entity, e. g. Wo(cid:373)e(cid:374) o(cid:374)l(cid:455) g(cid:455)(cid:373)s to (cid:272)(cid:396)eate a (cid:858)safe(cid:859) so(cid:272)ial spa(cid:272)e (cid:894)a(cid:448)oid (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g objectified by males) Identities are specific to a place and time: evolve over this space and time. Indigenous: racism, colonialism, multiple jeopardies: post-modern: no universality; voice, representation. Refuses possibility of any universalising discourse: focuses on the multiplicity of voices (localized rather than universal, difference points of view, difference is not only about being different. Implies power, marginalization, constructed identities: social constructions of identities may not necessarily be what the individuals see themselves as, e. g.