SCMA*2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Shetland, Total Institution, Impression Management
Document Summary
Access to hidden world of small communities in shetland islands and american psychiatric facility. Adopted role that allowed him to enter each of these communities as a new member with relatively low status. Watched research subjects do their daily activities in the environment they lived (shared same frame of reference) Didn"t disclose himself as researcher which gave access to parts of the two worlds. Recognizing circumstances that are the reference points for activity. Analyzes conduct of individuals within context of particular environments in which they usually exist. Your reaction to a situated social reality that is observed: social reality is impacted by your consciousness and interaction of other individuals. Understand behaviour in group provides understanding of overall social structure. Total institution (asylum) = place that has so much purview over individual life that symbolic meanings are shared: purview = scope of interest, concern, or influence, disempowered = the less powerful.
