COMM 2P20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Richard Hoggart, Working Class Culture, F. R. Leavis

• School: Brock University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 2P20
• Professor: Baxter Moore

Document Summary

Max weber, verstehen = understanding or seeing through the eyes of . Attempt to understand the meaning of actions and events from the point of view of the participants. Need first to understand values, rules and roles in particular culture. You have to understand the nuances of particular cultures in order to understand what is going on in a particular scenario. The head butt in soccer - you have to know a little bit about the rules of the soccer game in order to understand what is going on in the clip. & the values and the roles that guide that culture and the individual participants. To understand a culture from the inside even though we as the researchers are outside that culture. We can observe as a total outsider (sometimes we don"t even have to be present to observe - we can use film)