GGRC31H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Drill Instructor, Ethnography, Participant Observation
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In every social establishment participants use available artifacts in a manner and for an end not officially intended thereby modifying the conditions of life programmed for these individuals. A physical reworking of the artifact may be involved, or merely an illegitimate context of use () in central hospital many simple make-do"s were tacitly tolerated. For example, inmates widely used freestanding radiators to dry personal clothing that they had washed, on their own, in the bathroom sink, thus performing a private laundry cycle that was officially only the institution"s concern. On hard- bench wards, patients sometimes carried around rolled-up newspapers to place between their necks and the wooden benches when lying down. Rolled-up coats and towels were used in the same way Organized"; neatly torn, folded, and carried on one"s person, it was apologetically used as kleenex by some fastidious patients (goffman,
