ANTHRO 33 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Conversation Analysis, Cultural Capital, Intersectionality
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Helped establish ucla as a leading place to study microinteractions (conversation analysis) Has worked in latin america, philadelphia, and la. Methods: conversation analysis, ethnographic fieldwork, social science theory (citing others" work, transcription. Genre: unstructured play: unclear if playing/teasing or actually being mean/threatening, bragging/boasting. Examines class identity and the way it affects status in children, in contrast to many other studies which examine how race or gender affect status in children. The gift: as opposed to the commodity, maintains the soul of the giver, accomplished through stories and communication, and object can be both a gift and a commodity. Notions of class are often linked to ethnicity. Intersectionality: the idea that social identities and hierarchies must be examined simultaneously: carefully examining videotaped and recorded conversations, looking at turn taking, power, and status, looks @ syntactic and grammatical construction, adverbials, commands, etc. Cultural capital: a form of knowledge that equips people to be competent in discussing values of objects and events.
